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Clones being grouped together is bad, and here is why.
I have a first and a second place scores on a game that are considered clones of each other. First, the 2nd place completes the game with over 2million pts. and scores 82pts. The other, while being first, only gets 16pts???
Who in the hell thought that was fair?!?
C'mon MARP, they've been played, how come we change the rules in mid-stream???

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cparsley1@hotmail.com

I think Zwaxy will have to agree there has now been a definite shift
in favour of keeping the clones and hopefully he will adjust the
leaderboard accordingly in the near future.

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BeeJay.

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bjohnstone@cardinal.co.nz

Yup, putting clones and original together was definitely a bad move in
some cases, especially since I just noticed something about one of my
recordings...

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Black Tiger and Black Dragon (and bootlegs) are clones. The games are
nearly identical, except for text language, the items that are hidden,
and a biggie... the scoring system. You can score more points in Black
Dragon than in Black Tiger, mainly because the last boss awards a
million points in BD, as opposed to 10000 in BT.

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The 1.13 million recording for Black Tiger was one of the first
recordings that I ever sent to the site, and Krool beat it by about
50,000 on the same day... but it's stayed as 2nd place the entire
time. Since there isn't too much of a point difference, it SHOULD be
worth a little over 80 points, right? No, it's only worth 43 since the
highest score for these games is 2,234,250 on blkdrgnb (Black Dragon
bootleg).

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Is this really fair? I mean, blktiger (the game my recording is in) is
the ORIGINAL romset no less! But there is no way to beat this score on
Black Tiger... do we just ignore all other versions and only play the
clone that allows the most points? Because this game isn't the only
case where originals and clones have slightly different scoring
systems (like Choplifter)

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-BBH

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