Donkey Kong Training Videos

[marinomitch13]

OK, so I've been wondering (actually, to be honest, this thought came to me in a kinda lucid dream  ): what if, in terms of safety, the Staal Pattern is best? It seems more efficient at clearing out the top rivets, and the rivet left near the bottom hammer is usually pretty easy to snag. With a little practice (and maybe actually modifying the usual principles) of when to grab the top hammer and where to smash fireballs, it may be safer (?). When I get back into DK, I will try messing with this more and try to see what a large sample of trying to do this yields. My gut is that it can be improved upon quite a bit if some intentionality is brought to it, but that it would ultimately still be less safe. But, then again, DK rivet theory has surprised me before with the weave and some other auxiliary patterns being quite useful.

Ok, everyone can go burn me at the stake now...

[stella_blue]

Glad everyone liked it. Now that I look at that video I almost wanna kick myself for not getting the prizes on the elevator stages. I see a lot of points being left on the boards in that game. I'm going to start streaming a lot more once I get my internet connection upload speed at an acceptable level. Thanks for a site like this where people interested might actually get to see this and hopefully learn anything from it.

Hey Joseph, I just watched both of those posted videos.  Solid gameplay, and I enjoyed your unassuming and conversational narrative style.  I look forward to your future DK streaming sessions.  Since I don't secure 130k starts very often, I'll be looking to steal (borrow, I mean) any techniques or strategies that might help my own game.   

[Bliss1083]

I think it's great to have many patterns for the rivet stage to practice on. I mean if you have to abandon a certain pattern because the fireballs aren't cooperating then it's good to know where to go to fall back on. The ones that do the no hammer challenge get pretty good at evaluating a certain pattern Just by where the fireballs spawn from the beginning. Sometimes the weave is for me sometimes when I don't like where the fireballs spawn I might just pull my left hammer rivet from the get go to avoid a death, then depending on what side top two rivets to grab I go from there. I really like to grab the left two and hammer fireballs on the right side but sometimes that isn't an option. The more I watch others play the better I can see why they do this or that. You can be surprised what you can learn from anyone even if their scores aren't up to where your score maybe. Everyone can bring something to the table.

[Bliss1083]

Haha, Stella go for it man. It's why I put it up there. Remember we gotta see who can get the kill screen first! Lol.

[stella_blue]

Haha, Stella go for it man. It's why I put it up there. Remember we gotta see who can get the kill screen first! Lol.

Yeah, it's a good thing we don't have any money riding on this, as my prospects are presently bleak.   

We should invite Mitch (marinomitch13), Dan (danman123456), and Craig (d3scribe) to join our friendly little competition.  We're all members of the 700 club, looking to suffer that unavoidable demise on Level 22-1 for the first time.

Whaddaya think?

[Bliss1083]

Yeah totally! the more the merrier. I feel probably at least 2 of us will have a kill screen before years end. I'm recording almost every game now so I will have my proof but I believe everyone on here so if a picture is all you get that's all good. Let'em know.

[marinomitch13]

I'm only gonna play at 1m+ pace from now on, unless there is some sort of Wildcard Rematch #3 happening soon. I'm also not gonna start playing DK again unless there is a WCR#3 or the requirements for the KO3 are announced. So, I'll join this little race, but don't expect me to go all out and beat you guys there in the near future.

Sorry for going off topic, Corey. Maybe, Scott, you can start a thread about it or something. The 700K Club Blues.

[stella_blue]

Sorry for going off topic, Corey. Maybe, Scott, you can start a thread about it or something. The 700K Club Blues.

Good idea.  The "hijacked topic" apology goes double for me.

[LMDAVE]

I'm also not gonna start playing DK again unless there is a WCR#3 or the requirements for the KO3 are announced.

Well, I thought the requirements for KO3 came out a while back, and is also posted on the TG facebook event:

https://www.facebook.com/events/620619794630299/?fref=ts

The only weird thing now is the new TG website has the event listed as Nov. 1st-3rd. (instead of 15-17th)

But, top 12 on the TG scoreboard are dedicated players, and the rest are wildcards rotation through 8 different machines. Unless these were not official yet, it came across as though.

[marinomitch13]

Oh, wow! I hadn't realized that I missed this! I just joined the FB event now. Well, I guess it is time to start shooting for about 1.075m, as I'm sure several people will get 1.05m.

Edit: Actually, looking the top 10 list, maybe 1.05m would be good enough, but I still wanna try for a 1.1m pace that tapers off near the end and ends up a bit lower, just to be safe. Gotta finish the games I am working on now though first, so it'll still be a couple months though.

[LMDAVE]

I'd be surprised if 12th place is up to 1.05M by then. If they are going to stick with their TG scoreboard requirement, Ben will have to get an official one up, and of course those in the top 12 are trying to up their scores.

The new TG site looks better, however, I guess the scoreboard is not up anymore (yet), could find the link to it.

[marinomitch13]

Ah yes, I guess they have to be TG official, don't they? I keep on forgetting that.  But, I'll at least make this prediction here: I think that at least 5 more people will get over 1m by the KO3, and that at least 2 of the people currently over 1m will up their scores.

[Bliss1083]

Dave the donkey kong scoreboard is up for both make and arcade last I checked abou a week ago. It's a little hard to find but you can search donkey kong and look under that and a list will show with arcade or look for us set 1. Sorry if this isn't what you were talking about.

[d3scride]

I'd be surprised if 12th place is up to 1.05M by then. If they are going to stick with their TG scoreboard requirement, Ben will have to get an official one up, and of course those in the top 12 are trying to up their scores.

The new TG site looks better, however, I guess the scoreboard is not up anymore (yet), could find the link to it.

The way it's setup now under the 2nd beta you have to search for a game's "page" then on the game page there's a highscores link on the left side of the page. Bit weird.

[xelnia]

http://www.twingalaxies.com/scoreboard/6648/46/ <---US Set 1 Scoreboards
http://www.twingalaxies.com/scoreboard/3852/2/ <---Arcade Scoreboards