As for Ron's remark, I don't understand how he can say that. There are lots of world class players on MARP, and as long as they use TG settings and indicate that, Mark Longridge will eventually get around to seeing it and asking the player for permission to put that recording on his TG MAME site (which would happen faster, of course, if the player also submitted it to Mark in the first place). And it is Mark, NOT Ron, who decides which MAME recordings go in the book...(posted 9479 days ago)And "casual" players? Come on... For any given game, I bet I can find a "casual" player on MARP that can beat Ron at that game. Ironically, this means that if MARP were really for the casual player, then, judging from Ron's performances on games, Ron would really belong on MARP...
As for Q.T.'s remark, I have to disagree. Allowing people to vote for games is no guarantee at all that people don't have to develop skills for "new" games. Despite the fact that we voted for T2, 7 of the 10 games in T2 I had NEVER even SEEN (not to mention played) before the tournament, and I bet a lot more players weren't familiar with at least a few games. If you vote for a game, that does not mean it will be in the tournament, and there actually were players who didn't get any of the games they voted for in the tournament. Voting for games is not that different from completely randomly picking 10 games...
As for beating me at DK, well, a lot of the #1 recordings on MAME are pretty good, so whether it's DK or not, there's a good chance you'll have to try to beat SOMEONE's great score on that game...
Cheers, Ben Jos.