I watched the Track & Field recording, and that's the first time I've ever seen the power bar go over MAX too. I dunno what else to say about this since I'm not much of a TnF expert, although it is fun to play from time to time. :)(posted 9842 days ago)Anyway. I DL'ed newcomer Donut's Neo Turf Masters recording, in which his score was posted as 67. His final game score does indeed come out to 67 strokes, which winds up as 5 under par (72). But there are a couple issues with this recording (and game).
1. If score is determined by number of strokes, then we have a big problem here. See, in golf, the player with the lower score wins (duh). If someone gets a 66 and uploads it, their score will actually be 2nd on MARP.
2. When a game is started, your credit buys three holes of gameplay. If you get par, you lose a hole. If you get bogey, it takes off two holes. If however you get a birdie, then it will take off the hole and then give you another, leaving you at the same number you started at. So if you can keep getting Birdie's, you can continue to play on one credit for quite a while.
In Donut's recording, he actually uses about 4 or 5 continues to finish the game, which of course is usually a no-no on MARP. Since ranking by number of strokes is a bit screwed-up unless changes are made to the script, I feel that scores for this game should be ranked by how far you get on one credit. i.e. if the Continue screen shows up on Hole 8, then your score would be 8. Any thoughts on this, gang?
-BBH