Curtains Drop on May’s Jung Rhythm Community Challenge
“
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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