Some very good observations, Tommi. As far as my recording is concerned, I used nothing more than what the MAME team has provided for this game and that is the left shift "run like hell cheat". I can't speak for the others as to exactly how they've acheived the incredible speeds they have. The way I view it in this particular case is that each individual game in the "MAME arcade" has its own unique properties just like in a real arcade. That is to say, some arcades provided speed-up buttons for Pacman/Ms.Pacman, some arcades put guards up on T&F, some arcades may have had much easier settings on Defender than the arcade down the street. The point is that the MAME team has included this speed-up function in their "arcade". Am I going to use it? Hell yeah! There is no outside help going on here, just using what is provided with mame.exe.(posted 9638 days ago)I appreciate your great skills in T&F and watch good players like you with envy. I also concur with your observation that something isn't exactly on the level with some of the submissions (not all, just some). But like I said...as far as my score is concerned, I used nothing more than a keyboard and the options that were provided. Now let's not get carried away thinking that use of the -cheat option is OK. (i.e. going to fetch Pugsy's cheat file and maybe there's a new cheat that lets you take the meter to 1600 or something ridiculous like that) That's a whole different world there and anyone with half a brain can figure out the answer to that one.
And that's all I've got to say about that.
JoustGod