Good point, Tim. Yes, everybody who can get to the end of round two can max out the score on Rastan this way, and so it does not award players who are able to end the game by finishing all six rounds. I hadn't thought of this, but even without it, I already had the opinion it shouldn't be allowed. It looks like a bug to me. I don't know if the actual machine has it too.(posted 9492 days ago)What makes it seem like a bug to me (amongst other things) is the fact that sometimes after doing it the first time, the game starts to behave very strangely. And this even happens ALMOST ALWAYS after doing it the second time in the same game. Strange things that happen include: Weird colours, no enemies anymore, player being "trapped" when getting to the boss of the round, game restarting at round one when getting to the boss of the round, no swinging ropes (in general: no moving objects) so you cannot get past certain points, and the game just completely freezing or crashing.
As far as the amount of points you get, it's variable and I haven't figured out yet what it's based on. So far I've seen "bonuses" of 56M, 57M, 83M, 84M, and 87M. Some seem to happen more frequently than others. I've even seen a "bonus" of 0, but it definitely happened since the game displayed its strange behaviour afterwards.
As for how: I am very hesitant to put this out in the open since it may prompt a flood of "ridiculous" scores on this game. And I want the technique banned. You are very right that people who can't even get close to finishing the game can get a number one score on it this way, so the score no longer reflects how good a player is at the game. I think that makes it fall into the same category as making the enemies stop shooting in Galaga.
OK. Here it is: Just make sure you kill one of the swordsmen right over the place (block) where you crash through the floor. If he leaves behind a bonus, then pick it up and after a few more kills (or a crash through the floor, but this is NOT necessary), you'll get your multi-million point bonus.
When I got my 87M, I only uploaded it to T2 since I didn't expect it to be accepted. I never uploaded it to regular MARP because I didn't like to take advantage of what seemed like a bug to me. However, when Game Guru finally figured out how to do it, he did upload it to regular MARP as well. Despite how I felt, I also didn't like having my leaderboard points on that game reduced to 1, so I finally put it on regular MARP as well.
So Game Guru: If you are reading this, let me know and I'll remove my 87M from regular MARP if you assure me you'll remove your score too.
Ben Jos.