Welcome to Bounty (Achievement) Hunters, an event that sees some of your favorite characters convicted of unexpected crimes, and you must help to turn them in. In this event, players have to complete tasks related to certain popular gaming icons, which earn you gold bars. Collect enough bars and you will be able to earn some badges on the site!

Here's the layout of how this event will work:

During the first week, I will reveal which character is currently wanted. Each character will have specific tasks that will help find their location and turn them in. Each board has a total of 120 of a type of currency that you can earn by completing the given tasks. Once a board is revealed, it will remain active for the entire event, so there's no need to have to finish during it's reveal window. New boards will be revealed every 2 weeks, and there will be 12 total. Will you be able to help lock these characters behind bars?

Every 2 week period, a leaderboard will be cloned that all participants can partake in. The winner of this leaderboard at the end of the 2 week period will be featured in one of the achievement titles for the event badges. Will you be the one to put them away?

There will be three tiers of badges available for this event. The first can be earned by earning 400 points total, the second if you can earn 800 total, and the final for those that can earn 1200 points total. These points can be earned at any point during the event.

Join the Discord!:
In our very own discord server, participants can help influence the path of the event. When we reveal a character's board, a thread will open up where participants can suggest crimes that this specific character would have been convicted for. After a week, the Events Team will come up with a list of some of the best suggestions, and you can vote as a community for which crime they committed.

Why is this significant? Well, the winner of this poll will determine the name of certain achievements for the event badges. How would this work? If s0uth had won the leaderboard at the end of the 2 week period for Yoshi, and the community voted for Yoshi's crime to be "arrested for tax evasion", the achievement's title will be "s0uth locked up Yoshi for committing tax evasion".

Some might be wondering how these 12 characters were chosen. It came from a poll sent on the discord server, where they were asked to provide a list of who they thought were the most popular gaming characters. Now you may be wondering in which order these characters will be revealed in. Well, that's entirely up to the community! At the start of each board, a poll will be posted on the discord server where you can vote for a number, 1-12, and the winning number will correspond to the rank of the character in that poll!

Item Shop:
Those rewards you've been collecting have more use than just earning badges! Bring it over to the item shop to purchase items that may help you out on your journey of justice. They accept any type of currency.

200 Points - 5-point task skipper
300 Points - Task reroller
400 points - 10-point task skipper
600 points - 25-point task skipper
800 points - 50-point task skipper

The task reroller can be used to reroll any task where you were given a roll. All the skippers can be used to skip tasks of the specified point value.

Happy hunting, and let's bring these characters to justice!

Complete these tasks to earn Rupees and help bring in Link:

5 Rupees - Draw Link Behind Bars OR show us your favorite Zelda NPC and describe why you like them

5 Rupees - Gain the power of magic in any Zelda game
Must be from an achievement

5 Rupees - Earn Eagle Novice (5)
Prior credit if you've earned this before

10 Rupees - Earn A Link Between Worlds (5)
Prior credit if you've earned this before

10 Rupees - Earn 5 items in any of these games:
Legend of Zelda, The: Twilight Princess (GameCube)
Legend of Zelda, The: Ocarina of Time (Nintendo 64)
Legend of Zelda, The: The Wind Waker (GameCube)
Legend of Zelda, The: The Minish Cap (Game Boy Advance)
Legend of Zelda, The: Link's Awakening DX (Game Boy Color)
Prior credit if you've gotten all items in these sets before, items are defined as something you can put on a button from your inventory, so pieces of hearts do not count

10 Rupees - Earn any achievement in Legend of Zelda, The: Ocarina of Time (Nintendo 64) Subset Glitch Showcase or Legend of Zelda, The: A Link to the Past (SNES/Super Famicom) Subset Glitch Showcase
Prior credit if you've mastered both before

25 Rupees - Earn a random mask in Majora's Mask assigned to you OR dev a Zelda game
Prior credit if you've earned your mask before

50 Rupees - Earn Crystal in the Dark (10)
Prior credit if you've earned this before

Competition - Link amiibo tournament. Join the discord for more details.




Past Boards:

Board 1: Pac-Man


Board 2: Crash Bandicoot


Board 3: Kirby


Board 4: Mario


Board 5: Luigi


Board 6: Cloud


Board 7: Sonic


Board 8: Donkey Kong

Keep track of your points here! -------- > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K3vyv5sWli2ALlMXVqKNK4pIheWzGEkZ8pnDxXqDkAc/edit?usp=sharing
Let s0uth know if anything seems off.

Check out this personal checklist made by RetroDron: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1b9l_USX3tpt_BoeLPrj2cvUOjIbDDgwgTcFe8-lR_jA/edit#gid=681972873
Make yourself a personal copy to help keep track of your own progress if that's something you want to do!

FAQ:

Is prior credit allowed?

Yes, prior credit if the task asks you to do a specific thing that you already have done. Examples of this would be to beat game X, but you already had beaten it. If prior credit is not allowed, it will be directly stated

Where can I submit my completed tasks?

You can submit them here on the forum topic, or find the character's thread on discord, either would work

How can I get rolls?

Ask for one either here or on the discord in the rolls thread

Can I use an alt?

Yes alts are fine, just please declare it the first time you use it

Can I use Softcore for this event?

No, only achievements earned in Hardcore will count

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cant wait to see how this event unfolds!

Looking forward to trying this one out!

Board 1 has started!

5 Dots- Draw Pac-Man behind bars OR write about your very first gaming memory

5 Dots- Take a picture of a pizza with one slice missing OR take a screenshot of one in game

5 Dots- Eat all 4 ghosts in succesion in any pac-man set

10 Dots- A Bounty Helper will give you a roll, and you must eat that many ghosts in https://retroachievements.org/leaderboardinfo.php?i=19254

10 Dots- Get a Key in any Pac-Man set

10 Dots- Defeat 2 bosses in any Klonoa game

25 Dots- Beat Pac-Land (PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16) Pac-Land (PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16) OR dev any game in the Pac-Man series

50 Dots- Beat Pac-Man World 2 (PlayStation 2) Pac-Man World 2 (PlayStation 2)

Leaderboard- https://retroachievements.org/leaderboardinfo.php?i=102600

Feel free to ask for rolls in the discord or after this post

To clarify, the board "currency" (dots in this case) is equal to the points required to earn badges, 1:1 conversion? And does buying rerolls take away from those points going towards the badge rewards?

The unique currency names for each character are just for fun. 1 Dot = 1 Point, and the same holds true for the other currencies as well.

Spending points for rerolls does not take away your badge progress. We're currently working on getting a spreadsheet set up so everyone can follow along with their current stats which will hopefully make things more clear.

How Can i Join this bounty Hunter event

This sounds super-interesting, I'll definitely give this event series a shot! :D

Edit: apparently in order to get credit for previous achievements and whatnot you have to do every single variety of each category on the site and quite frankly I do not understand why, so good luck to everyone else who attempts these challenges

earned Four-Course Meal (5) for 5 dots - Eat all 4 ghosts in succession in any pac-man set

Four-Course Meal (5)

Four-Course Meal (5)