Sooooo Penny Arcade finally released the winners of their Katamari Forever contest. I didn't take a prize but I figured I'd share my entry here anyways.

The Winner:
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Some of you may have been reading the Noby Noby thread and following it along. I have some news.

Today's final bonus multiplier is 765. That means for every meter you stretch you will get it multiplied by 765 until midnight. We are now at a total of 60 billion meters which puts us about 15 billion away from Mars. If everyone really pushes and stretches like crazy, we will be able to hit Mars tonight. I'm only asking you throw in your time for one evening and make this thing happen. Myself and the rest of the addicts will keep making the next big push to Jupiter if you are willing to help us out with this.



Start a new game. Make sure your house's hairstyle is NOT the angled ring sticking up. This comes into play later.

Find a level with lots of different objects. Get fat. I'm talking so fat...

A couple of folks were asking about how to stretch boy like crazy and rack up the points so I thought I'd detail my two main methods for this real quickly in case any other CAGs want to help get to Mars.

The Auto Method

This was actually discovered by someone over at GameFAQs so I can't take credit for it. Make sure the controller auto-off function is disabled, PS2 sleep mode is disabled and your controller is plugged in via USB. What you want to do first, and this is important, is find a level without a lot of moving objects. Keep regenerating repeatedly until you find a calm level. Mushrooms, tops, robots, cars, Katamari, etc. are all your enemy. You don't want anything in the level to be smashing into you and breaking the stretch.

Once you have a good level generated pick a spot near the house. Get some packing tape and tape down the L2 and R2 buttons. Once they're taped, press in and hold down the right analog stick. If your legs are spaced...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou8Yo059um4

Sad but true.