If I understand correctly, your proposal is that player starts with 5 lives at his disposal and only uses those but is allowed to repeat last level of round 2. You say that this would prevent from having overlong games because player would eventually lose the 5 lives.(posted 8752 days ago)If you watch the inp I recently uploaded (romset ghoulsj) you'll find out that I've lost my first life at 500k and eventually scored 2,224,700 points with only 6 lives lost... For your information, the inp lasts around 8 hours...