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Response to Track & Cheat

from Tommi Tiihonen (tiihoto@hotmail.com)
Thanks "Joustgod" , I allways thought this "run like hell" cheat was just a jo-ke. So it seems that mame-team has integrated this cheat into the emulator, which explains why it plays back. You still have to type "-cheat" to activate it and when playing T&F just hold down left shift or change that button in key-board setup-menu. Actually that cheat works only on: javelin,(after you've thrown it) giving you somewhat better results. hammer -you can get maximum speed (which you can do without this cheat too)but more importantly can get more consistant on ti-ming the throw. High jump-can jump something like 4 cm higher. So it's like couple of guys using sixfinger-system on both running buttons and doesn't help in any event that shows power-bar(you can run 100m slightly under 9 sec using it). Therefore it should be called "throw and highjump like hell"-cheat.

Sure I'm annoyed of mame T&F scores not being comparable with arcade ones, cause "rlh"-cheat gives little over 2000 points more. And ofcourse I'm puritanist who wants everything to be exactly like in the old times. Nevert-heless it could be quite difficult to spot this cheat given by mame-gods, for it works in events without power-bars. That makes noticing this cheat quite dif-ficult, if someone really wanted to make it look real.

And what do we do about it then? If you can't win them, join them. So "run like hell" can be allowed in my opinion. What do you other marpers think about it? Bad thing is that you can greatly speed up running in every running event of hypersports, which is another issue

There are still left those trackfld scores recorded by Lamat and Vignola that are made using some kind of autofire and KRA's score- So Chris, they real-lyshould be removed?

What do you other marp-or TG-men think? Tommi

(posted 9637 days ago)

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