Nice score on Flying Shark (the 795,330 on 'fshark'), but you are supposed to use the default settings. The default setting for 'fshark' is 'Normal', and you used 'Easy'. You also turned off 'Allow Continue' (not that that matters).

To get the default settings, you can delete the file called 'fshark.cfg' from the 'cfg' folder of your MAME folder. If you remove all the files in that directory, all your games will be back to default settings.

It's not much fun checking on which dip switch settings were used in recordings - yours in the first I checked (I think the cheeky smiley in your game description made me suspicious, where you say "area 150 default 3 lives :-)" in response to ^Cronos^'s "why the hell are you using 5 lives in this game too Game Guru?? like BBH said, use default settings like the rest of us!". It's not fair for you to use easier settings than everybody else - so please don't do it.

Chris.

-- Zwaxy (zwaxy@bigfoot.com), June 30, 1999

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I hate to suggest this, but if he continues to do this, we may have to decide on voting him ineligable to MARP. So, knock it off.

-- Chris Parsley (cparsley1@hotmail.com), June 30, 1999.

I thought I was on default, sorry dudes I'll upload another score later..........

No worries...... :-)

-- Game Guru (games.guru@cableinet.co.uk), July 02, 1999.

> I thought I was on default, sorry dudes I'll upload another score later..........

Well - the same goes for all you recordings on the flying shark clones, as well. None of then use the default settings, whereas everyone else's recordings for all the clones *do* (just in case you were thinking 'I bet everyone else uses 'easy' as well - they *don't*!) - here's the details (the settings are pretty much impossible to read, but yours aren't default)

recording name                  #frames settings
--------------                  ------- --------
ceh_skyshark_84720_m35rc2.zip:    14267 default
db_fshark_594870_m35rc2.zip:      60761 0000 1100 0000 0000
db_fshark_795330_m35rc2.zip:      82266 0100 0100 0000 0000
db_fsharkbt_416100_m35rc2.zip:    48340 0000 8100 0000 0000
db_skyshark_611330_m35rc2.zip:    64932 0100 8100 0000 0000
jog_fshark_443890_m35rc2.zip:     47571 default
jog_fshark_492600_win35rc2.zip:   53052 default
jog_fsharkbt_580220_m35rc2.zip:   59834 default
jog_hishouza_1052270_m35rc2.zip: 100729 default
jog_skyshark_420620_m35rc2.zip:   48135 default
vaz_fshark_178030_m35rc2.zip:     25408 default
wpc_skyshark_71620_m35rc2.zip:    11847 default
zw_fshark_458820_m35rc2.zip:      48872 default
zw_fshark_483650_m35rc2.zip:      49299 default
zw_fsharkbt_407400_m35rc2.zip:    44128 default

Chris.

-- Zwaxy (zwaxy@bigfoot.com), July 02, 1999.