I think using mame34 or mame35bX only or win35+ would be an excellent thing to do for tournament2. But clearly a header and tailer with the start and end time encrypted is the way to secure inp files. This would not only stop the cheat above but fps slowdowns. The only problem with this is that this method is still not fullproof, a debugger can pic out the encryption algorithm for someone to create their own headers and tailers. We need to think of a way to securely encrypt the system start and end time...(posted 9557 days ago)I'm sure many people know and have known about this cheat was possible (even before mame35) so stateing it in a post isn't really going to do a whole lot, but assuming everyone who reads here knows it was kinda lame. There are other ways to cheat if people really want to, but i believe most people don't cheat because they want know what their true abilities are. but somepeople don't care about their true abilities, so a fullproof encrypted mame would be very nice.