Makesure we have a document of all the games we are going to "ban" from the new leaderbaord so that if questions are asked we can give the answer as the url of banned games (include Angry's Banned techniques and the recent banned games vote.)(posted 9501 days ago)I must also add that games that can not be played back by a confirmer that attempts to confirm the score should not contribute a score to the leaderboard. This might call for a little implimentation of a confirmed state. Since someone might be able to play it back even if the first confirmer isn't able to.
When a game is attempted to be confirmed, and all options are exhausted to get it to playback, the confirmer should put the recording/entry in a unplaybackable state, where it's still there for other confirmers to attempt to play it back, but doesn't contribute a score.
It might be usefull to store in the confirmed state implimentation of who confirmed or unplayabacked a recording, so confirmers can see that they themselves haven't yet tried to playback a recording (and they should try it) even though it says it hasn't been playedback yet.
Restating what CP said: We must be wary that the tgmame version is hack proof before we go on the path, but tg3mame looks pretty reasonable. We also must be wary of the mame open source rules. But i believe releasing the source without encryption routines/calls or at least different ones seems reasonable enough, since no one should be attempting to change the encryption like they would be attempting to change a driver routine.