“The May Community Challenge boogied on by, and now Jung Rhythm might as well have been a fever dream! It’s easy to lose track of time when you are getting down to that ecological beat!”
—Gregori Rasputin
This month we saw 11 participants and 132 score submissions in our SEGA Saturn SHIRO! May 2025 Community Challenge, competing against each other in the recently English translated Jung Rhythm. It’s a Tale of Two Chorkings, with both Nezu and Lord Zillion scoring perfect scores on all the stages, each getting the maximum 3,500 points. QberT came in third place with a score of 3,410. Lord Zillion claimed the Stage 1 prize, QberT Stage 4, Crash Stage 6 and Nezu on Stages 2, 3, 5 and 7.
SEGASteve was untouchable all month in the Speedrun Category with a no-fail run of 23 minutes and 17 seconds, scoring 3,267 points in the process. Squilliam remained all alone in the Emulation category, but beefed up his score to 3,287 in the final week to take down his buddy Rink Rat‘s score by 305 points.
REAL HARDWARE:
Mama Essence – Lord Zillion
Bavaroa Dorian – Nezu
Picasso – Nezu
Enka – QberT
Coconut Pine – Nezu
Chorking – Crash
Savant – Nezu
Superstars – Nezu, Lord Zillion (Gold), QberT (Silver)
SpeedRun Challenge – Segasteve
EMULATION :
Vanillabot – Squilliam
“Jank Rhythm.”
—PandaMonium
“When playing it with friends at AGDQ 2024 I remember we all felt it was really inconsistent and almost as if the rules changed between stage to stage.”
—Crash
“If you’re really good at this game, I worry about you.”
—Ateam
“To be honest, I spammed the buttons a lot on stage 6 and it was hilarious. I wish I captured it.”
—Lord Zillion
“Congrats to Squilliam on defeating my scores and winning himself a burrito.”
—Rink Rat
Winners will receive patch prizes designed by SaturnDave. Thanks to those who put this all together and everybody who participated. Ecology rocks, one good deed a day!
Checkout SEGASteve‘s impressive no-fails video run here:
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