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I had my top score deleted on Cosmo Gang because it did not play at regulation speed, although the game only slows up on the fading in and out?!?!?
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The other scores for this game have been left alone, not going to mention any names, but the other scores did exactly the same as my recording by they remain posted?!?!?

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Where should the line be drawn???

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Some of the large Tatio games are unplayable with autoframe skip?!?

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This is not because I have a slow machine, it's the way that the game is emulated, ie: not %100

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How can people justify uploading scores with huge frame skips, this is not a true representation of the original arcade machine??

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If u did watch my recording, the actual in-game play was done @ a fair speed!

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Anyway, nuff said

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GG

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gameguru@cableinet.co.uk

Curiosity got the better of me and I played this game. Besides being
a cute Galaga spinoff, I didn't really have any problems playing. I
used DOS MAME36 Final and no sound, and in my monitoring I found no
slowdown at all during the game. In fact, I had horsies to spare.

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If you're having trouble with a slow game, I'd suggest using an
earlier version of MAME or turning sound off. Frameskip shouldn't be
necessary with the setup you describe (I have a 700 MHz Athlon, 96
megs of RAM).

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Cheers,
Brian McLean

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bmclean84@hotmail.com

Game Guru: The slowdown was detected during actual gameplay, NOT
during idle moments. And please don't tell me that while you recorded
it, you had speed display (F11) on and were watching it all the time.
If you had, you would have seen it drop below acceptable speeds lots
of times during gameplay.

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And "MARP uploads not being a true representation of the actual
machine" sounds very strange coming from someone who has tried just
about every trick in the book (tricks not available on the actual
machine, such as slowdown, autofire, RLH, playing with more lives
than default, etc.) to get higher scores on MARP... . How do YOU
justify THAT? Besides, huge frameskips make games actually harder,
not easier...

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As for drawing the line: The point is that the playing field should
be even for everyone. In this case, that means that autofire,
slowdown, etc. are not allowed. How would YOU feel if people used all
kinds of tricks to beat YOUR scores? And this really is the only way,
because, trust me, a MARP where people are allowed to do whatever
they want to get higher scores requires very little gameplaying
skill, just takes up a lot of time, and gets boring really soon.

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Cheers,
Ben Jos.

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walbeehm@walbeehm.com

Do not worry game guru.
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I beat your top score of cosmo gang the video not to disappointed

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your score will unconfirmed.

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anyhow, beat the score of mine which has very small difference.

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weavuspert@yahoo.co.jp