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First of all, hi and thanks for reading.

Here's the question... What do I have to do to submit hiscores for MARP? Do I just have to send the final screen shot of my game, my .hi file, or need to record an .inp file to let them watch my playing through all the game? And... about original settings... like for example, for submitting a high score for SF2 I have to play the game at normal, and I can't play at hard? or, for KOF, can't the game be at level 8, because it must be at level 4? I know easier is cheating... but why not harder? Also, a question about EMU+'s "Highest Score (MARP Info)" option: where can I get the file containing the information about the highest scores for each game, so I will know when I beat one of the highest scores before submitting them to MARP? (By the way, I got the MARP's URL from EMU+.

-- Takuma Sakazaki (takuma683@yahoo.com), May 21, 2000

Answers

Welcome! most of your answers can be found browseing the site, perhaps starting with http://marp.retrogames.com/rulespg.html

Screenshots are nice but not acceptable alone. You must have a .inp file that playsback. it's a good idea to make sure it playsback with the mame version you recorded it with before you upload. if there were special options you've used like: you've recorded without sound or with a special frameskip or if there was a nvram/gamename.nv file in your mame dir, put that in the upload description.

it's best to download some of the recordings you plan on uploading to, to see what settings previous users have used. and then go along with the flow. these settings may change, but it's best to keep everyone at an even playing level. if things get too easy then they might change.

-- Chad (churritz@cts.com), May 21, 2000.


Welcome Takuma

SUBMIT : zip your inp file ; then click on "submit" (you'll have to register your name first)

SETTINGS : it's better using default settings ; if you want harder , some games have harder settings named "tg settings" (tg is Twin Galaxies) you can use if you want

TOP SCORES : click above on "top3" ... you will have all top 3 scores on each games

I'm very impatient waiting for your games (I don't know why but I have the presentiment that you're not a newbie on fighting games)

-- phil (plamat@club-internet.fr), May 21, 2000.


Yes, I'm not a newbie at fighting. Yesterday, I beat by far MARP's KOF96 highest score (416600 I believe), I scored 612500 points. I almost finished the game using a single character (Wolfgang Krauser), I only lost him once. But my INP file does not work, even with the same MAME version I recorded it (K6-optimized EMUPLUS 0.37b2), with the same ROM set and the same NVRAM. That's because MAME works only with recorded input. For example, when I recorded the INP the first character chosen by the CPU was Choi Bounge, and whenever I load the INP the first character is Kyo Kusanagi. That means MAME messes up all my gameplay and makes me a big loser. That's why I think screen shots are well worth as a record proof. All right, screen shots can be edited, but an expert MARPer could easily point it out. If I had a screen shot of my record I could submit it, but... I only got that good-for-nothing INP file which won't prove I did it, so I'll have to do it again. It was the first time in my whole life I scored so high in an KOF game. I think you could accept screen shot sequences as proof of the record (for example, I could take one screen shot for each stage I cleared.)

-- Takuma Sakazaki (takuma683@yahoo.com), May 21, 2000.

Sure, we could accept screen shots as proof, but we don't because who wants to look at a screen shot when they could look at the full game and all the strategies used to win? all the special moves and kicks and shots are what make marp special... there is a small learning curve to get passed to make recordings playback, but they do playback and it is sweet when they do.

-- Chad (churritz@cts.com), May 22, 2000.

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