T3 - Jump_etr - get an e-mail address or you'll be DQ'd!!!!!

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From the rules page: - All players must have a valid e-mail address registered in MARP (reachable by the "@" link on the score table). This way judges can directly reach the player to inform them of any bad inps. Failure to have a valid e-mail address will result in disqualification. Why? You can easily get an email address, use Yahoo, or Hotmail, or something like that, and you've got one.

-- Donut (glenwpc@home.net), February 01, 2000

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Jump_etr is not using m35tg3. The first two T3 submissions are m34rc2, and the next two (although indicated as being m35tg3) are m35, not m35tg3. I remember we had a player called Jump during T2 using wrong versions constantly and not paying any attention to what everyone said. Could Jump and Jump_etr be the same person? If so, then I wouldn't mind at all having Jump_etr disqualified. The sooner the better. Saves all the judges a lot of work...

What's next? Gust_etr? ;-)

Cheers, Ben Jos.

-- Ben Jos Walbeehm (walbeehm@walbeehm.com), February 02, 2000.


Wow. This is getting a bit "elite". I guess all the players are not MARP veterans, but ok it's not an excuse for not reading the rules.

Anyway this is just day2 & it has already changed a bit. Gauntlet2 settings have changed & the m35tg3 link is not broken anymore, so...

-- Blost (blost@flashmail.com), February 02, 2000.


For a beginner in MARP, especially if he's not a computer expert, it's very difficult to gather all the informations ( zip and inp files, dip switches, commands on keyboards, dos versions, win versions, -record or -playback options, and so on ... ) and respect all our rules. So don't be too elitist, Ben Jos, and allow some errors and benefit of doubt, at least for a few days again...

-- lagavulin (darre@club-internet.fr), February 02, 2000.

If I ever enter a competition, I always read the rules. They tend to tell me what the hell I'm supposed to be doing, for one thing.

I'd figure though that if you can set up DOS MAME, record a game, zip the .inp file and upload it to MARP, then you can easily manage to type an email address in a form when making a MARP account...

or am I being "elite" by thinking this? :)

-- Crash (crash@tcp.co.uk), February 02, 2000.


Right. This has nothing to do with being elitist. And being a newbie or not has nothing to do with not bothering to read the rules first. In my opinion, joining something or signing up for something without reading the rules first, is plain stupid, and I have no compassion for that.

We went through the same thing with some people in T2, and no matter how many (kind!) e-mails were sent or how many descriptions of their submissions were edited, they completely ignored it. I would have been more than willing to help if they had just asked (for instance by replying to my e-mails). Well, whatever, their scores will just be zeroed out again...

Cheers, Ben Jos.

-- Ben Jos Walbeehm (walbeehm@walbeehm.com), February 02, 2000.



Setting-up DOS Mame is not that easy, as we've seen with Gauntlet2 & even with Ladybug. Reading the rules is not that easy if you're not english. Can you read french?

-- Blost (blost@flashmail.com), February 03, 2000.

So Jump_etr understands enough to download and use m34rc2 and submit recordings selecting m34rc2 from the drop box as well as select m35tg3 from the drop box (thus showing some understanding that that is the version to be used), but not to use m35tg3?

And I am not English, nor is English my first language. And, yes, I can read French.

Cheers, Ben Jos.

-- Ben Jos Walbeehm (walbeehm@walbeehm.com), February 03, 2000.


Bien compris :)

What i meant was that, for someone who is no into this for some times, it could be a bit confusing, and slow to understand all those "tech" things right (settings, versions & stuff).

Just asking for a bit of indulgence (dunno if it's the right word in english).

-- blost (blost@flashmail.com), February 03, 2000.


Yes, "indulgence" is a correct word to use here. And I may have been a bit harsh, but someone who can read enough English and has enough knowledge to get MAME up and running, download ROMs, record .inps, zip them up, create a MARP account, submit those .inps to MARP, understand that m35tg3 (why else the sudden change from m34rc2 to m35?) has to be used for T3, etc. etc., should also be able to read the rules...

Cheers, Ben Jos.

-- Ben Jos Walbeehm (walbeehm@walbeehm.com), February 03, 2000.


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