Pnickies Audit

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Around the mame 33 beta cycle, pnickies became an emulated game. It was quite buggy though - it screwed up the playing field, and it screwed up the scoring. Think of it this way: tell me one game which uses hexidecimal scoring. That's what Pnickies did until it was repaired in the MAME 34 cycle.

Why do I discuss this? Well we have one recording where it was played in the MAME 33 cycle, Steve Krogman's 179,140 point recording. I knew there was something wrong when he scored 60,000 points for a 20 some bubble clear, which I scored yet 5,000 points less with a 36 bubble, 3 star conversion. Pnickies is actually scored in 50's, not 10s. When I played Steve's recording in MAME 34 FINAL - I got a score of 92,300. "Oh, well it didn't playback right" you say. It played to level 52, the same level it played back with MAME 33. He scored only 20,000 points with that big bubble conversion I was talking about, not 60,000. Do you see something wrong with this?

My point is that we need to have Steve's score changed from 179,140 to 92,300 - in accordance with the CORRECT scoring system. BBH agreed with me - he had a hefty score himself, around 150,000 - but he changed it to 88,200 for the very reason I talked about. If you don't believe me, look at the MAME 33 beta 7 recording, then look at it with MAME 34 FINAL, you'll see a big difference.

I'm not saying Steve did anything wrong - he didn't. But I think we need to have a little consistency with these games - which our Pnickies scores do not have.

Another thing - I just converted a 32 bubble - 3 star conversion, which was only worth only 45,000 points in MAME 33 Final. Not worth much, huh? A 24 bubble conversion gets more points than that? I don't think so...

Thanks for reading my opinion on this matter...

-- Gameboy9 (goldengameboy@yahoo.com), August 17, 1999

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