stumbled upon this Japanese site called Eclipse, it has a small collection of .inp's there, most of them done by the same guy.

http://www.interq.or.jp/black/sekkey/top2/top2.html

Of particular interest (to me, anyway) is a 13 million on Raiden, a one-credit finish on Shadow Dancer that involved getting the 100k bonus on every "normal" stage, and a maxed-out 9,999,999 on OutZone - looping the game at least six times!

Not being able to read anything on the site isn't too bad a problem, as I've discovered that the inps I've tried have all played back with either m37b4 or m37b5. It'd be a lot nicer if it said which version was used like on MAMENAVI, but maybe it's in there somewhere in Japanese. Oh, and there's some blatant use of autofire going on (especially in Raiden), so for those who are disgusted by that, steer clear ;P

-- BBH (lordbbh@aol.com), September 01, 2000

Answers

BBH: Just install Japanese language support (Shift-JIS). Most of the stuff will still be unreadable (unless you can read Japanese), but the versions used are clearly readable in "normal" characters then. For instance, Raiden was recorded using EMU+ 37b5, OutZone using HauMAME32 37b2 (don't ask me what HauMAME32 is, I'd guess a Japanese port of MAME32), and Shadow Dancer using AMAME 37b2.

Cheers, Ben Jos.

-- Ben Jos Walbeehm (walbeehm@walbeehm.com), September 01, 2000.

Human beings can not beat monsters.you may understand why I always saying my play as "poor!"

Anyhow,the master of ECLIPSE is very nice guy (one of my friend).

If you want to meet me or him,let's go the "Restrunt mountain"at nagoya city.

we are member(lol) of there and sometimes go.

-- Hisa-Chan (weavuspert@yahoo.co.jp), September 11, 2000.