I certainly like some of the ideas proposed regarding the Power Rating System. However, the issue of using only verified and authenticated scores may cause a problem in the area of scores recorded with some of the earlier versions of MAME that have not yet been confirmed.(posted 9785 days ago)This is due to the massive changes that have been made to MAME's ROM management system (i.e., merging, renaming). MAME has corrected many problems with bad ROM dumps, but this leaves most of us with ROM collections that can't play some games on MAME versions prior to MAME v34.
I agree that we should dump clone games. It just creates too many leeching opportunities given (see my Pengo & Amidar scores) =) But there are some instances when clones are completely different games, a good example of this is the Trog Prototype game. And would dumping clone games also include dumping multi-game variations, like the 4-in- one bowling games?
In response to Aquatarkus, MARP actually stores every players' top score that has been submitted into the database, and is not limited to just the Top 3 scores. The leaderboard simply uses the top 3 scores to calculate the point values (a long, long time ago, it just tallied up the number of 1st place scores each player had achieved).
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