I think that "deleted" scores are being counted somehow for a player's medal points as well as his average score. I deleted all of my non-1st place scores (leaving me with 20 1st place scores) yet on the leaderboard I'm listed as having 210 medal points, 21 1st place scores, 2000 total points, and a 95.7 average.

It seems to me that "deleted" scores should have no effect at all on a player's points.

-- Tickenest (tdemores@sas.upenn.edu), September 18, 2000

Answers

What I could do is subtract 1 from all the players game total amounts in the average and it would correct most of them. It would give a better average than some though. This would probably be an incorrect programming practice. However - I'll do it if everyone wants me to do at least that much...

GB9 - Assistant Page Maintainer

-- Gameboy9 (goldengameboy@yahoo.com), September 18, 2000.

I hate escaper.

at least, it is not act of want to called " THE KING OF ARCADE".

IS To keep high average (WORTHLESS) SO VALUABLE?

player should proud of their own recordings (include poor one). If can not ,should not send.

delete should be banned. if want to delete the recordings, delete inp and remain the result as 0 points.

not to keep nonsence high averages.

regards.

-- Hisa-Chan (weavuspert@yahoo.co.jp), September 18, 2000.

I agree with you partially on this one, Hisa. I gave it a lot of thought for myself when I was going through my old recordings. But I decided that my own scores were relatively meaningless compared to the top scores on MARP in some games. I can get a few million in Galaga, but who cares? Steve Krogman has much better scores on the game and if someone needed to learn something about the game, they'd do better watching him than my own recording. So I threw it out.

I'm proud of my accomplishments in that particular game, make no mistake. It's no world record, but I know that I can play the game with some measure of skill and I can duplicate the score if I had to. I just know when to bow to the masters. :)

All that might sound worthless from someone who groomed his own recordings to keep a relatively high average, but I use MARP to show off on the games I can play well and not as a repository for ~everything~ I've ever done. My hard drive works well enough for that. Take it easy on some of us, Hisa. We can't all put our lives into this sort of thing. And remember, all clear no miss. 100% does not hurt your average. Very simple solution. ;)

Cheers, Brian McLean

-- Brian McLean (bmclean84@hotmail.com), September 18, 2000.

Hisa, this is separate from KoA. I'm just someone who likes having a high average above all else. I said that earlier and then I realized that if I really am that way, I should keep none of my recordings except for my 1st place recordings.

When I used to play Rail Arena for Quake II, I didn't care if I had the highest score. All I cared about was having the highest hit %. That's how I once managed to get 17 hits in a row in that mod. :)

We all play for different reasons. I mean, I could submit crappy recordings of a thousand games, each worth only a few points, and up my leaderboard total substantially.

But I don't want to.

I'd rather have my high average, even if it means sacrificing some leaderboard points.

-- Tickenest (tdemores@sas.upenn.edu), September 18, 2000.

It seems to me that everyone who has ever 'deleted' one of their recordings (or had one deleted) has a permanent entry of zero for the game 'deleted'. If you delete another recording (ie. rename to 'delete') then your recording for 'deleted' just gets overwritten. Unfortunately everybody who has a 'deleted' game has this zero score counted against their average.

Is it possible Gameboy to do a purge on all the 'deleted' recordings every now and again and actually delete all the 'deleted' recordings so that everybody's average is calculated properly?

-- LordGaz (garyjlee@hotmail.com), September 18, 2000.