I was under the impression that the vote for banning games (related to the recent vote for unplayable scores and such on *some* games) was only related to the leader board points and was not going to disallow players to submit scores from any games.

If thats incorrect I may need to rethink my voting.

It still remains to be seen if this it technically feesible if the majority votes to not allow some games for leaderboard accumulation.

-- Dave Kaupp (info@kaupp.cx), September 21, 1999

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Ack, i don't know where this rumor is from!!!

Banning games doesn't mean they will not be seen again, you will still be able to attempt to upload a banned game, but it will be underclose scrutinity to the banning authority (who ever zwaxy decides this will be) to judge weather an upload meets the characteristics of being banned by the catagory the vote has banned it under.

Each upload may be banned or not banned, only if the upload meets the characteristics (doesn't playback, is broken, is in a game that is too easy, etc...)

This is technically feasable, from the horses mouth, not necesarily if there is time to do it yet.

-- Chad (churritz@cts.com), September 21, 1999.

What rumor. The automated scrips were made to save Zwaxy time and hassle. Now with the resource limitations at Retrogames, what do a few here want to do? Take away others ability to compete for their points in certain games that they have already mastered, and therefore consider "too easy" Banning any game will, unfortunately, cause MARP to probably go under due to the added grab of resources to keep them in, but exempt them from the scoring script. Also, we would be shying people away from MARP, as we will tell new players, who come, and like the games we are about to ban, that we don't care about them, we don't give them any credit. Are we to lock ourselves in, or open ourselves to new people, as I thought we all wanted to.

BTW - The tournament was mentioned at wwemu over the weekend!

-- Chris Parsley (cparsley1@hotmail.com), September 21, 1999.

It is my understanding that storage space is not an issue, memory is. Zwaxy neeeds to load all the games that have scores in them into memory, Banned games will not have a score thus don't need to be loaded into memory. Hence the saving with out stoping uploads from happening, which in my mind is a harsher thing to do, even though it takes a lot of work away from the banning judges.

-- Chad (churritz@cts.com), September 21, 1999.