RE: Speaking of multigame, A/AD/LL?

From: Neil Bradley <nb_at_synthcom.com>
Date: Wed Apr 18 2007 - 19:01:07 EDT

>> http://www.twingalaxies.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2167
> I can't remember, did we leave Scott's kit in the machine when Bill made
> that run?

Nope. We pulled it and put back in the original ROMs specifically because
of the TG requirements.

> ...and along the same lines:
> http://www.twingalaxies.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8512
>
> I got pulled into a discussion on some other forum about the same thing
> recently (can't remember where it was) and I think Twin Galaxies stance now
> is that they'll consider records from modified machines, but they'll still
> be tracked separately from "originals". (so a high score on Asteroids with
> Scott's kit in it would be valid, but only in the 'kit machine' category.)
> Really, that's the only way to do it-- way too big of can of worms to open
> up otherwise... (People trying to prove that patches make no actual runtime
> differences, no funny business happening in programmable logic on the
> boards, etc. Way too easy to cheat with a hacked board... ;-)

Do they track ROM revisions when they do their high scores? If not, it's a
very big hole in their logic of keeping things "pure". ROM differences can
have a big effect on playability.

-->Neil

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