Response to This is all getting awfully elitist

I don't care if I'm considered "elitist" or not, but I fully agree wholeheartedly agree with what BeeJay and JoustGod have said.

The whole point of MARP has been to let people show off their skills, and to let people see HOW such huge scores are achieved. I'd only seen someone get a multi-million score on Galaga in the arcade once, and I was too young to remember what was going on exactly (although I was still in awe).

When MARP started, it was us sending the scores to Zwaxy for him to upload to the site. So when someone submitted a score, they usually tried to make sure it was a good one. But believe it or not, this wasn't just a site for showing off high scores. If you poke around on the Index page, you may come across a "forgotten" page with some interesting bugs, and requests for certain little "tricks". What happened to these pages? They were sort of ignored when Zwaxy introduced the Leaderboard (remember when it was originally sorted by number of 1st places only?)

Although Q.T. has been singled out, what about A.D. SAKURAGI? He seems to be going through every romset alphabetically and uploading scores no matter how crappy they may be. He does have his share of 1st's, but I have to wonder: what is the point of a score that will be in 5th or 6th place, and receives 0 percentage points? Whether you're going for medal or percentage points, it's a waste of time either way.

If you have a score us "elitist bastards" consider lame, you have two choices: 1. Download the highest-scoring .INP, watch, learn. There's a lot of people with some truly awesome skills on here, they need to just spend a little more time learning the game. Still can't quite hack it? Then... 2. Play a different game. MAME now supports 1600+ romsets... try some new stuff, you might find a game you really like and/or one that you can get the hang of. You're not forced to upload recordings for EVERYTHING.

We may never know if the flood of "lame" recordings was what sent the MARP scripts over the top, but it'd be a sad, sad day if this was the cause.

-BBH

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