Game Guru: The slowdown was detected during actual gameplay, NOT during idle moments. And please don't tell me that while you recorded it, you had speed display (F11) on and were watching it all the time. If you had, you would have seen it drop below acceptable speeds lots of times during gameplay.(posted 9241 days ago)And "MARP uploads not being a true representation of the actual machine" sounds very strange coming from someone who has tried just about every trick in the book (tricks not available on the actual machine, such as slowdown, autofire, RLH, playing with more lives than default, etc.) to get higher scores on MARP... . How do YOU justify THAT? Besides, huge frameskips make games actually harder, not easier...
As for drawing the line: The point is that the playing field should be even for everyone. In this case, that means that autofire, slowdown, etc. are not allowed. How would YOU feel if people used all kinds of tricks to beat YOUR scores? And this really is the only way, because, trust me, a MARP where people are allowed to do whatever they want to get higher scores requires very little gameplaying skill, just takes up a lot of time, and gets boring really soon.
Cheers, Ben Jos.