thanks Tak and Bobak.
Now, on the subject of emulators and Unibios and all that stuff. I think it's pretty clear now that a score hasn't been 100% proven these days unless it has a video to go along with it. Unfortunately, not all of us have the capability to easily record (and host) videos. Whenever an emulator gets mentioned people instantly think it's faked because of all that "speed run" bullshit. And now we can't even take scores done on a Neo-Geo to be 100% reliable because of the chance of the Unibios...
I know there's always going to be dipshits out there that'll want to increase their e-penis size by lying about videogame scores. People have been caught lying about scores ever since Twin Galaxies began tracking arcade game scores back during the "Golden Age" of arcade games in the early 80's. But... I'd like to think that the people here are better than that. We're all here because we have a love for a video-game system that is 15 years old now... I'd like to think that we're just doing this for the love of the Neo. Yeah that sounds kinda corny, but bottom line is, I don't want anyone here to be an asshole lying about scores just to piss everyone off. Let's keep this positive!
I still want to use my MAME scores though, since they DO have corresponding replay videos, but of course they can only be watched using the version of MAME they were recorded with... I'm going to have to look into if there's any easy way to encode them into avi/wmv/whatever, but even if I did there's the issue of hosting it... (Google Video, maybe?)
also, how does everyone else feel about scores done on Level-8 instead of Level-4? kernow and too_short (among others) would rather keep things at the default, which is understandable since it's probably best to keep everyone on the same level. Raising the difficulty sometimes makes it possible to get a higher maximum score, usually because of more enemies and other stuff like that. I think scores done on higher difficulties should still be accepted for now (lowering the difficulty is of course a no-no), but I'd like to know if anyone else is opposed to this.
oh yeah, and I REALLY strongly oppose scores done on more than one credit. It's true that a lot of games reset your score if a continue is used, but not all of them. I could max out the score on Metal Slug 1 through a very boring process that would involve nothing but shooting the same thing over and over until time runs out and using continues when I ran out of lives, but what fun is that? 1 credit is the norm with score trackers like Twin Galaxies and the Gamest/Arcadia magazine, so it makes sense to use the same rule here. Is there anybody else that really feels like continues should be allowed in scores?