I made a super-duper-high score in KOF96 (612500 pts), but... when I finished playing, I tried testing my INP file. The result was: I lost just on the first bout with only 8000 pts. Seems like there's an INP recording problem... as I remember, when I played the game the first character was Choi Bounge, and when I played back the INP file the first character was Kyo Kusanagi. There's when I think screen shots would be the best proof of a high score. All right, screen shots can be edited, but... an expert MARPer can notice the alterations. And a question: Is continuous state saving implemented in any version of MAME, official or not? If so, the best backup for screen shots would be continuous saved states, as they would reproduce your playing more faithfully than INP files.

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

Answers

Which mame version did you use and on which platform? usually playback problems can be resolved by removing config files before you playback on certain versions. Also sometimes recordings only work when sound is turned off. neo-geo games are fairly notorious for saving state in config files, resulting in different players or computer moves in the first opponent. you might try removing memcard/memcard.* or nvram/kof96.nv or cfg/kof96.cfg before recording and before playback.

If that doesn't work (and you are using a current mame version like mame36) try downloading an older version (that someone has uploaded with and the recording was confirmed at.) you can get old versions from www.mame.net or here at marp in the dropdown menu in the header frame. It looks like there is a recording that was confirmed with mame35 for kof96.

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

Before recording, remove or rename the game's .nv .hi and .cfg. The .cfg probably isn't important as long as it at the MAME default, as the INP, I believe, stores that. Make sure there is no .nv or .hi before playback as well. I am not sure if .hi files are used with the hiscore.dat system (I haven't used it and don't really care to yet), but better to be safe. The key is to have it at the same state as when it was recorded.

-- Barry Rodewald (bsr@hn.pl.net), May 22, 2000.