Marble Madness Default Settings

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The default settings for Marble Madness (set 1) from MAME37b15 onwards are now easier than before. The defaults for all the other sets are unchanged though.

Tommi Tiihonen has the top score for this rom done on the older settings, it was a great game done with a trackball and shows a nice trick at the end of the ultimate race.

However, what is the rule? Anyone now attempting a high score for this rom gets 15 seconds extra time!

-- LordGaz (garyjlee@hotmail.com), July 31, 2001

Answers

General rule is newer settings hold precedence.

However, there was a rule change that I started to introduce where the top 3 players could vote on making a game TG settings only. I don't think this ever went to vote (I think it is posted under 'illegal recordings' somewhere)

The easiest solution for this game would be to have players play at the TG settings, and make those the settings for the game (as we did for Bombjack and Joust, which, incidentally, do not yet have a Special Rules link attached to them to mention this fact) and then you don't have to worry about settings cahanges between versions.

-- Q.T.Quazar (qan@home.com), July 31, 2001.


Let's keep it TG. I don't care what mame devs decide for default settings...or would you want to make all your recordings again...

-- Tommi (jyasdgfsdf@ksudhf.asdkfh), August 06, 2001.

I just checked and the difficulty settings for all the rom sets are set to NORMAL by default. I think that when rom set 4 appeared, all the others were shifted down a set to make room so that the latest is now set 1. Unfortunately the NORMAL difficulty setting for the latest rom set is easier than NORMAL difficulty the others it appears :(.

So to make set 1 the same difficulty as the others timewise you would have to press F2, change the difficulty to HARD, press F2 to get back into the game and then escape and save the marble.nv file which must be restored each time a recording or playback is made. Seems a bit of a faff.

-- LordGaz (garyjlee@hotmail.com), August 07, 2001.


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