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???

-- Chris Parsley (cparsley1@hotmail.com), June 26, 1999

Answers

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. ;-)

BeeJay.

-- beejay (bjohnstone@cardinal.co.nz), June 26, 1999.

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...

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.

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).

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)

-BBH

-- BBH (lordbbh@aol.com), June 26, 1999.