Gameboy:
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Yes, the positions are correct. Because of the fact that some players
were removed from the tournament, first place positions on the games
don't all give 21 points. But since 2nd place on a game gets one less
than 1st place, and 3rd place one less than 2nd, and so on, the
positions in the overall leaderboard are still correct.
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A few remarks regarding some scores and games on Mark Longridge's TG
MAME site:
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Yes, this is the official place and only the scores that are there
will be considered for publication in the next TG World Records book.
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Pooyan: The only reason I am still number one on Mark's site on this
game is because he has not updated it yet. I told Mark about Brian's
score on Pooyan and asked Brian to give Mark permission to put that
score up there, so Brian's 576,050 will be number one there. Still a
TG MAME world record set during T2, though.
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Rastan: Since this game has a real ending, that means that the only
way to get nice scores (let's say 800k or more) is to make sure you
get more points during the game. Scores of over 1 million are very
possible (without using the multi-million-point bug!) and I actually
did one in which I did not even finish the game. The main problem with
this game is that it is very hard to draw a line between "milking" and
"leeching". Theoretically, someone could play one Rastan game for days
on end (regardless of the fact that the game stops giving extra
lives past 800k) and get a huge score, but that would most probably be
considered point leeching. Since it is so hard to draw the line in
this game, and since it is relatively easy to finish it, that means
that a lot of players can finish it and so it really tends to become a
point leeching race. So I really hope that Rastan will not be included
on Mark's site, unless there is some time limit rule connected to it.
(For instance: All recordings should be less than 1 hour long.)
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Scramble: I was duelling with myself here, really. But first let me
explain that there are several versions of Scramble and that their
MAME names were changed in between versions 0.34 and 0.35. What we
played in T2 was the "official" version as recognised by the TG MAME
site. This official version can most easily be recognised by the
"Copyright Stern" notice when the game starts. The ROM set for this
version was called "scramble" in 0.34, but got renamed to "scrambls"
in 0.35. So what is now known as "scramble", is not the Stern version,
but the (much easier) Konami version. This also means that anyone who
wishes to upload their T2 Scramble score to regular MARP, should
upload it to "scrambls", not to "scramble".
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As for the official Scramble (so: Stern) records: Like I said, I was
duelling with myself here. At some point, I had a 178k score on it
during T2, but I felt I could do better. Since I also wanted a good
score on Mark's TG MAME site, I then used Mark's cheat-proof MAME35TG3
version to record a 199k score. But since I could not use that
recording for the tournament, I set out to improving my T2 score using
mame34. I then scored 200k. Then Mark told me that he was going to
accept Guenther Beer's TG submission of 219k (a submission for which
only a screenshot, not a recording was available). So I had to try
again. I managed a 234k using MAME35TG3 again, so that made me number
one on Mark's site. Since I, once more, could not use that recording
for T2, I set out to improve my T2 score. That finally resulted in my
300k. I was aiming for a score around that 234k, so I guess I overdid
it a little.
I still feel I can do better on this game, so I am
going to try again soon using MAME35TG3. In case anyone else plays it
using MAME35TG3, make sure (as I explained above) to play "scrambls",
not "scramble".
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Yes, Cicca's Scramble score will be third on TG MAME, but since there
is a 148k score by Frode Gjerde on regular MARP, and since he
indicated that he used TG settings, that score will eventually show up
on Mark's TG MAME site as well, so BBH's score would be 5th then.
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Cheers,
Ben Jos.
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