Phil, unfortunately your proposal (which I overhastily accepted) is no longer viable because we forgot a crucial fact: the life-display at the bottom of the screen only shows up to 4 lives and therefore if you only watch the end of the inp file you cannot know how many lives player actually has at the end...(posted 8764 days ago)Let's take an actual case for the sake of clarity, i.e. my 276,900 inp. At the end, the on-screen display shows 4 lives beside the one I actually used. From my score you see that I MIGHT have a maximum of 8 lives left (the 3 initial ones plus those won at 30k, 60k, 130k, 200k, 270k), but since the display only shows 4 lives and since you don't know if and how many times I died (because you haven't seen the whole inp), you cannot draw definite conclusions: I MIGHT have died one, two or even three times (or never, as is the case) and you couldn't tell...
The upshot is that the inp file MUST be seen from the beginning through to the end, so that you know exactly how many times (if any) player has died. At this point, you may as well take notice of the score player has made by the (first!) end of 5th level of round 2, so that you can subtract the points undeservedly earned in the possible repetition(s) of the level.
Michele