Highway Race

BBH · Post by **BBH** » Tue May 27, 2003 6:27 am

http://marp.retrogames.com/inp/e/f/6/qc ... m37b16.zip

http://marp.retrogames.com/index.cgi?mo ... 00&tourn=0

old recording, I know... but I can't get Q.T.Quazar's score to play back. Using the frameskip 0 stated in the description (and I'm not moving it or throttling during playback), it seems to go out of sync with a crash at 266 and ends up playing back only to 866. Tried with sound and without, using DOS m37b16.

Chad · Post by **Chad** » Tue May 27, 2003 12:35 pm

same here with win32 mame.

Kale · Post by **Kale** » Thu May 29, 2003 1:07 pm

Same for me...

Chad · Post by **Chad** » Thu May 29, 2003 1:50 pm

zeroed, had another score underneath that GB9 described as implaybackable, must have recorded with autofs.

Kale · Post by **Kale** » Wed Jun 25, 2003 1:00 pm

The player resumed that recording back to the old score.

{please recheck--played back fine for me}

WTF!?It doesn't playback after checking and rechecking.If you believe that recording playbacks fine,give to us the proper configuration AFTER checked that REALLY worked to you.Otherwise resubmit a working inp WITHOUT being so disloyal if it doesn't work...

Q.T.Quazar · Post by **Q.T.Quazar** » Thu Jun 26, 2003 9:50 am

the reason i couldn't give settings, Kale, is

a) it was recorded before i left MARP

b) i was using a different computer then

as Chad said, i had another score underneath that didn'tplay back, that i was informed of, and then i rerecorded with fskip 0. i checked, of course, before submitting the new hwrace.inp and it played back without problems.

when i cam eback and found it zeroed, i loaded MAME on my old system and checked the .inp again, and beleive it or not, it played back fine, so i reinstated and requested a recheck in the description. not something i usually do, but then again it was working and i don't usually have bad .inps (aside from Discs of Tron and Rampart)

now my old system has been shipped off, not that i guess it matters since people still can't play this one back. notice thatif you adjust the frameskip, for about every two points i will crash and die in a different place. the MOST common death seems to be me crashing into the back of a car to start the arce, and then taking out two cars in one spectacular crash.

so, to cut a long story short, i will re-record yet again this extremely frustrating game, because i am apparently a DISLOYAL MARPer.

i know, i know, i just can't stop cheating. one of these days i will learn to control myself. if only we had a rules page...

BBH · Post by **BBH** » Thu Jun 26, 2003 8:24 pm

For what it's worth, I know you didn't cheat, I honestly believe you did get that score... but it's just that NOBODY could get that .inp to playback. These things happen, I've had a recording or two (at least) that seemed to playback just fine, yet nobody else could get them to work for whatever reason. Didn't have much choice other than to re-record with a different version in an attempt to make sure it would work for others.

LN2 · Post by **LN2** » Fri Jun 27, 2003 12:07 am

maybe it's one of those dependent on the exact OS you are using also....so even just telling what OS that other PC you had was using might help.

Q.T.Quazar · Post by **Q.T.Quazar** » Fri Jun 27, 2003 12:12 am

i don't know what it was. sorry for the sarcasm in my post. i was just annoyed with Kale's post.

Kale · Post by **Kale** » Fri Jun 27, 2003 1:02 pm

Q.T.Quazar wrote:i don't know what it was. sorry for the sarcasm in my post. i was just annoyed with Kale's post.

...

I'm pretty sure you hadn't the need to do "sarcasm",I'm not saying that you have cheated or something to do that score,but I'm critizing the act that you automatically reinstated your old score giving the impression that you hoped that nobody ever notice that.

Remember that this site is called MAME Action REPLAY Page;according to the name the playback function has an higher priority than the record side.If people can't playback a given score your duty is to check if really don't playback,and if it doesn't delete that file and eventually to retry to rerecord it if you feel so.

by the way I can't understand when you say "I can't remember the Operating System that I've used on my older PC"...

Q.T.Quazar · Post by **Q.T.Quazar** » Sat Jun 28, 2003 12:17 am

i can very well remember the OS I was using--Windows 98 Second Edition, Revision D. I can tell you the specs too P2-233, SB Live Value, MS Sidewinder Gamepad. If there was any doubt it's also posted at Crash's--that's not what I thought the question was asking.

What I thought the question was asking was what my default config/ini was for old MAME--that i've forgotten. i know i modified that particular game to run -frameskip 0 after the other .inp wouldn't play back. but i don't remember what the base set of commands i was running under were. i'm quite sure that sound was enabled but i think -vgasync and a few others were too.

aside from that, it was not my intention that I could 'hide' my score--i wrote right in the description a request that since i had had SUCCESSFUL playback, i wanted it checked again. this has happened only one other time for me with Bagman, which had the ridiculous combination of not being able to be frame throttled and needed FM synthesis running--where nobody could playback my score until we figured out what the necessary playback conditions were.

and i resent the fact that you've essentially called me a liar and a cheat in your posts.

your duty is to check if really don't playback

resubmit a working inp WITHOUT being so disloyal

but i've had enough of this. none of this is what BBH was getting at in the first place. all this was was a bad score check and it's fixed now. i'm sorry if i've caused any inconvenience to the editors.

QCN

Kale · Post by **Kale** » Sun Jun 29, 2003 11:39 am

Notice (again) that I'm *not* calling or called you a liar or a cheater.I know it's frustrating that a recording that playbacked at the first time don't playback at successive attempts because of OS-dependant issues or even (and probably in this case) of a *.cfg issue,it happened to me too on about two or three times.Period.

Q.T.Quazar · Post by **Q.T.Quazar** » Sun Jun 29, 2003 11:48 am

ok, thank-you.

LN2 · Post by **LN2** » Sun Jun 29, 2003 1:18 pm

ok...so my point was anyone above that couldn't play this back now using Win98 to try it? Perhaps it just requires win98 to playback.

I use Win98 in VirtualPC on my mac so next time I'm about to use VPC I'll test that one for playback.

Kale · Post by **Kale** » Sun Jun 29, 2003 5:50 pm

LN2 wrote:ok...so my point was anyone above that couldn't play this back now using Win98 to try it? Perhaps it just requires win98 to playback.

I use Win98 in VirtualPC on my mac so next time I'm about to use VPC I'll test that one for playback.

It's "known"(at least by me and Chad;)) that I'm a fanatic Win98se OS.So there's no point in retry of playbacking it...

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