Do you think there should be some rule changes to what I have?

Do you have any questions to what I have posted?

Thanks :) GB9

-- Gameboy9 (goldengameboy@yahoo.com), August 28, 2001

Answers

Hi all. Yaeah, can you play any game you want, or are the competition games chosen from coordinators "votes"? Surely there must be a limit for games to compete. If you're only one to play a game do you still get gold? How about North America/South../Europe/Asia/Australia/Africa competition, some of these grouped together...

P.S. Very amusing #marp log, I didn't understand much what you guys were talking about??... but funny to read it anyway. Oh yeah, I hope nvram can still be used in a game like HS, like Alex (and me)prefer, dare to delete my score!#~(!!!!#¤%%/&/!! :)

-- Tommi (tiihoto@hotmail.com), August 28, 2001.

Ehhh........Can someone give me a link or somethin to all the info..i never even heard about the Olypiad......thanx if someone can.

-- Joe Ledesma (JoeyL21988@yahoo.com), August 29, 2001.

http://marp.retrogames.com/olympiad/rules.html

The games will be chosen by a committee through the applications we recieve. If we have to limit the number of games, we will - although I'm guessing the limit will be about... 50? I don't know yet.

GB9

-- Gameboy9 (goldengameboy@yahoo.com), August 29, 2001.

Tittle should be changed.
OLD: MAME OLYMPIAD
NEW: MARP OLYMPIAD.

-- c33master (c33master@yahoo.co.jp), August 29, 2001.

c33master: Is there life outside marp? Where is your webpage anyway? What does mean: "Poor 1<< >>7 Good"

Tommi, normal nomiss all clear escape success remain all your base poor

-- Classics master, ultimate, the KING! (elvis@lives.still), August 30, 2001.

I have a bad feeling about this:


"d. Version(s) of MAME allowed[...]it MUST playback in MAME and MAME32, unless the version is 0.51 (m37b15) or higher - then it MUST playback in MAME only. (MAMEW) "

If "some drivers call the rand function to generate random numbers and the implementation of this function depends on the library of your C compiler, which means that gameplay will differ and inp files won't be portable across platforms"(Example:Solomon's Key),that means for some games we CAN'T have a valid recording since it MUST playback in MAME and MAME32(they are like the day and night you know)or MAMEW when a person with minimum of "mental power" play with DMAME (Reason:much more faster).

I think is a hassle this thing...

-- Kale (angelo.salese@tin.it), August 31, 2001.

Kale, why would any driver need to call a rand() function for? The CPUs, video hardware and so on don't contain random elements. Any randomness the game uses is produced by its own code. Also, a 'person of minimal mental power' is more likely to use MAME32, and wouldn't have the faintest idea how to use the DOS prompt.

Most games (there are a few exceptions - Klax and Pipe Dream come to mind) produce recordings that are perfectly compatible between MAME and DMAME.

-- Barry Rodewald (bsr@hnpl.net), August 31, 2001.

A:"(there are a few exceptions - Klax and Pipe Dream)"

B:Sorry for the bad word:nothing is random in CPUs,I know

C:Explaination:The "mad" drivers generate totally different numbers between MAMEW,DMAME,MAME32,XMAME,MacMAME,IMAME and StretchMAME32. What it means?That if you record for Solomon's Key with MAMEW,it surely doesn't work with DMAME and the others.

D:I have a non-driver Joypad;I can't use it with MAMEW!

E:"normal" people use MAME32 because is really well known(even more that MAMEW/DMAME),but it's really bugged(a lot of games crashes).
The best choice is always EmuLoader...

-- Kale (angelo.salese@tin.it), August 31, 2001.