Just once, I'd like to read one of these threads and not remember how weird I must be...(posted 9676 days ago)My approach to playing these things has tended to be all wrong for MARP, because I generally have to take one or two games at a time and run the scores up as high as I can before moving on to the next game. This does pretty well for long term score defense, but it's also a lot of why I don't have all that many leaderboard points - I'm not good enough to get worthy scores in a few tries so I can't do 30+ games a week. Each newly discovered clone leaves me with the choice of resharpening my skills on a game every three weeks or sending in a crap score, both of which I see as a waste of time.
I'd combine versions of the games for scoring, with certain chipsets seperated (slow/fast Ms. Pacman) or disqualified (Crazy Kong, Japanese Donkey Kong sets) where there are significant differences from the standard game. Who fucking well cares which bleeding label is on the damn game?
The only real arguments I have with Mark's view is the MAME team doesn't always make it the least bit easy to figure out which blasted version of a game is the newest, and what do you do with old scores when MAME adds a chip revision newer than all those emulated previously?
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