Older versions of MAME default Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to 2 lives, but more recent ones (as of at least mame 36) use 1. All the uploaded inps at present use older mames so there are two lives. I ended up just uploading with an old version of MAME to match, but...can I use newer and just change dip settings to match?

(I had this problem once before, with one of the Head-On games and the top recording by German Krol had two extra cars because it used an older MAME.)

Also, there's a new romset of it (a few betas back) so it just has the default 1. Should that be 2 as well, or no? (Would seem confusing an inconsistent to me to leave it at 1, but I guess everything is confused anyway.)

-- jbd (jdyer41@aol.com), November 09, 2000

Answers

This was either readjusted or supposed to be readjusted, I thought the scores had been modified to the 'death at 1 life' point--AD brought it up a while ago. Play with the newest dips please.

Q.T.Quazar, MARP Rules Coordinator

-- Q.T.Quazar (qan@home.com), November 09, 2000.

I believe this was fixed as well, I don't have a mame close by, but i remember the older mames gave you 3 lives and the newer mame gives you 2 lives. I.e. older mame shows you have "2" lives left and newer mame shows you have "1" life left.

I think if you start the game with 1 life left this is ok? let us know if there are any recordings that are not of the same settings as the current default of the latest mame.

-- Chad (churritz@cts.com), November 09, 2000.

Why does Krool's recording list 316 when he loses his 'one life' after 240, then?

I don't know if the other ones have been fixed, but if that one is any indicator, they haven't.

-- jbd (jdyer41@aol.com), November 09, 2000.

You are right jbd. It could be we fixed tmnt2 and left tmnt alone. The current mame default is one life and past defaults were two. Q.T. do you know which url board page has the precident for the final decisions of how many lives should be in tmnt and tmnt2?

-- Chad (churritz@cts.com), November 12, 2000.