What do you think of the olympiad rules?

Gameboy9 · Post by **Gameboy9** » Tue Aug 28, 2001 12:30 pm

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

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Tommi · Post by **Tommi** » Tue Aug 28, 2001 12:30 pm

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!#~(!!!!#¤%%/&/!!

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Joe Ledesma · Post by **Joe Ledesma** » Wed Aug 29, 2001 12:30 pm

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

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Gameboy9 · Post by **Gameboy9** » Wed Aug 29, 2001 12:30 pm

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

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c33master · Post by **c33master** » Wed Aug 29, 2001 12:30 pm

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

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Classics master, ultimate · Thu Aug 30, 2001 12:30 pm

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

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Kale · Post by **Kale** » Fri Aug 31, 2001 12:30 pm

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...

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Barry Rodewald · Post by **Barry Rodewald** » Fri Aug 31, 2001 12:30 pm

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.

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Kale · Post by **Kale** » Fri Aug 31, 2001 12:30 pm

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...

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