I see you understand my efforts terribly wrong.(posted 9004 days ago)I'm really not interested in putting MARP down. It is real fact, that .inp files are insecure, and it has nothing to do with MARP. Although TG Mame exists, MARP doesn't require it for all recordings. In addition .inp files are good for high scores database, but are insufficient for tournaments.
If you have read HCC web before you sent flames over me, you'd known it.
I started game competitions in 1990, a long time before MARP was founded. Although I can't say here when exactly I started, because I haven't any historical materials here, I'm sure Mame didn't exist.
Since 1992 HCC held HCC's Megaman Cup, and we are still here. We still play with quite unmodified rules, as we used in 1992. Our competition is very different to MARP knockout tournaments, we use very different hardware and software.
What I really think is that you missed the point when YOU put down ME. You should instead get more information about HCC. Some former HCC Cup players have later joined MARP, and some MARP members are now competing in 5. HCC Cup. What's wrong with it? HCC Cup is not a Mame tournament, neither it relies based on .inp files. Have you ever heard about real judges? We use them.
Also we are concerned in allowing only limited number of attempts for each player and game. This way our tournaments differs from your pure high scores hunts. You can also see that our scores are not as high as yours, because it is not so easy to play 10 games on different hardware, in limited time with limited number of attempts.
I hope you will reconsider your thoughts about HCC. We did nothing wrong to MARP, and aren't going to.
best regards to all you nervous guys Aley Keprt