Ben Jos, The machine I played at arcades didn't remember records, and was one round only. Nevertheless we had fierce competition: specific event records and overall score stayed in our heads. As I've advertised before my one round score was about 190K, which requires approx 10 moles in a row. Machine didn't keep records after the place closed, but during the day(usually on the first game)we lifted Pole Vault records high enough to get all moles possible. That ruined only our first game of the day, overall scorewise. So HP doesn't reset scores after every game.(posted 9287 days ago)The machine was set on "don't keep records" mode. If it had been set on "keep records", the event records and overall score would have been there after shutdown too, next day.
As said before, it's only Pole Vault records that have effect to overall score. At arcades it takes only one game(ok, maybe two sometimes) to rise those records high enough for massive mole scoring. Maybe "Alex" could have lost the first game, but had scored much more on the next one.
If hi-files are not kept, then mame-scores are not equal to arcade ones. Kelly's score can't be beaten...not even by himself.
Yes, playing a recording should be made easy as possible but is it really a big job to drag nv file to your desktop and back when watching an inp. It's fun to see players' event records too, and maybe try to beat them later.
Rules are for breaking, my opinion is to let HP(and why not TF too) scores be played with nv-files.