David, I understand completely.(posted 9598 days ago)I would say give TG another chance. Twin Galaxies has been monitoring scores the longest, and the TG rules do make a lot of sense. I would be more that happy look over the results of the MARP tournament, and defining the rules for the many games which have no difficulty settings as yet.
If you look at the history of MAME, you'll see that people from all over the world have been credited with high scores.
To be fair, not everyone is 100% happy with the way I do things for the TG site. I'm currently reviewing all the submissions and slowing augmenting the MAME TG rules to include more games. I'd like to thank some of the best and most avid players in the world for their contributions: (in no particular order)
John Rhodes, Brian Johnstone, Stig Remnes, Ben Jos, Rick Fothergill, Steve Krogman, Ron Corcoran, David Waters, John Den Hartog, Quentin Kelly, Don Grose, Perry Rodgers, Mark Alpiger, Phil Lamat (great carnival score Phil, you got me beat!), German Castagnasso (the best Frogger player in the World!), Chris Moore, Dean Ryan, Rodney Butler, Neil Chapman, Greg Gibson, Matt Hall, Pat Laffaye, Tim Balderramos, Mark Lyons, James Wilson, Tommi Tiihonen and many many others.
My promise to all the players is to verify all the scores to the best of my ability. I'm sorry I'm so slow. I'm going to verify a ton of INPs hopefully tonight. My fondest wish is that all of the best players will co-operate in finding out the true best scores. I can't do it my myself, I need the help of Walter Day, Ron Corcoran, Chris Moore, and naturally all the other players.
No discrimination, just all the best players with the best scores.
If anyone has any concerns about the MAME TG scores, feel free to call be at (905)-576-2023. That's a Canadian phone number, or email me at cubeman@iname.com
Thanks in advance, sincerely, Mark Longridge