WOW! I just confirmed Alex's hyprolym84 score of 431K, even if I don't have inp-checker. Great playing, especially triple jump, long horse and skeets. Surely not long way to WR! All you need is 5th round finished, couple 8K moles, and that's it! It will not be easy to get past 3 first events of 5th round though.(posted 9286 days ago)Alex, you get great speed on weightlifting and triplejump, on long horse 11 rounds, huhhuh. You commented you got fingers working, does this mean you are no longer using joystick for running?
Alex lost only 5K because of low pole records on first round(surely he didn't even go for 1050's), and on second 3K. =8K, which is not much, but could have been lots more on first round. I remember Krogman said Kelly failed on 5th round skeets, so he must have had a load of moles and perfect skeets.
Alex, I think you should ask Longridge how to deal with nv-files on mame. My solution is to send him a nv-file, where lowest pole record is 5.93 (or any height you can do). That would emulate arcade situation on settings "don't reset highscores" After you've send it, you can afterwards use any nv-file you wish, as long you don't jump more than 5.93, because you've proven already that "machine" you are playing with has lowest pole record of 5.93.
If someone thinks you could have recorded only one inp with 5.93, and played it back three times(this must be one loophole that BJ mentioned), send him 3 different nvrams all having a record of 5.93. I think this is waterproof, and propably takes you 30-120 minutes.
Easiest way to use nvrams would be copying your nvram before each game, I assume it's possible to check when nvram/inp are accessed simply checking file/properties( to see that nvram is not made after the actual inp). But there is a loophole in this, quite obvious, I don't bother to mention it here. Good "luck" on your attempt Alex, may the moles be with you. I'll go and playback your 400K now :)
p.s. Maybe using nvram-file it's possible to start on "random" levels at Gauntlet 1&2, after those early levels that is.