Response to Vote on tournament style settings

C is the best way to go. Especially if players in marp want to have recognition for their accomplishment when the 2nd edition of the Twin Galaxies Book of World Records is ready to go into production. The TG ver. of mame is clean and is the best way to go. I will list a nice size list of games below that I strongly feel should be broken into 2 separate "high score" lists as I already numerous times disscussed this with Walter Day on the phone about doing the same for the next book. He already has done it on several games, but needs to address it on many others.

Regards, Steve Krogman

1) Robotron 2) Defender 3) Stargate 4) Joust 5) Q*bert 6) Galaga (this one I have been working on for some time now. I disscussed this with Walter about using some kind of tournament settings with this game to make it a little more challenging and interesting. I've come up with a "TG Tournament Setting" that I'm waiting response from Walter to see if it will be added like the ones already in there (robotorn, joust, defender, ect). This game is bordorline when talking about marathon. You can't play it for 24 hours like robotron, but I've managed to play galagatf for 10 hrs and just think if there were a cut off point to avoid a marathon, it would make the game rather interesting.

Here are my 2 sets of settings everyone on MARP can vote on including myself.

* Either ver. of Galaga *

1) Start with 5 men and no extras setting the difficulty on "D" to avoid a lock-up at stage 255.

OR

2) Start with 5 men and no extras setting the difficulty on "C" which will end the game at 255 (This makes it a little more intersting because those that can reach this "kill screen" will want to try and points press their score to see what the highest they can get at this point, no different then players did on Pang3-10 levels. This challenge of points pressing is fun and if it flys with players on MARP, then it could be considered on other games.

My vote is #2 even know I will disscuss with Walter to select #1 for the book, reason being is that there are alot of players around the world that can reach beyond the kill screen in the arcade so it would be interesting to see how high of a score a player can get with just 5 men on setting D.

Note: I've already taking into consideration that some of these games haven't been marathoned yet on MAME that is, They still should have there respected lists. It's just a matter of time before someone (hell, could be me...) plays a game of Robotron or Defender on their HotRod joystick and uploads a 40M or 50M pt game. We've already seen what happened with Q*bert. Which is a phenominal score by far.

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