OK - so I'll open this one up. Yesterday I uploaded a new recording on the secret levels of pang3, and included instructions in the .zip file of how to play them yourselves - so please feel free to take my 100 points for yourself!(posted 9607 days ago)You need to get the pang3.cfg file from the zip file (called pang3.sec in the archive), put it in your cfg folder and run pang3 using mame 0.35 final. Then when you start the 50 level game you'll see a whole new set of levels.
I don't know why that config file gets you to the secret levels, but I didn't edit it in any way - I reckon it might just be something the game does after it's been left switched on for a long time - I've played an awful lot of pang3, trying to regain #1 slot for it in the tournament...
Maybe Chris P. could do one of his famous 'rack tests' (whatever they are) and find out what's going on here...
The secret levels are a whole new set of levels, just as different as the set of 10 is to the set of 50, so I really do think it should count as a different game.
As far as the hidden players in the fighting games go, I don't have an opinion. I don't like fighting games, and I'm no good at them either (and there's probably a link between those 2 facts, too :o) ).
Chris.