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MARP member Don Hayes, dbh on the forum, has broken the 18 year old World Record on the arcade game Dig Dug.

No inp to watch, of course, but Robert T. Mruczek (also a MARP member) writes an excellent account of the performance at

http://www.twingalaxies.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1611

Worth a read even if you're not a big Dig Dug fan.

Congratulations to Donald.

Sure would like to see some World Record breaking performances recorded on MAME.

Nice play DBH.

Wow. Nice job Donald. I watched him improve throughout Deca2K3 on Dig Dug (I was the ref of the game). He's gone a long way. Congratulations!

Has anyone been able to play this back under XP. I just can't get it to happen. I keep getting a screen to select a sound card and no matter what I choose it just resets. Congrats.....that's one hell of a high score.

Lippsman

Make that the high score on the board here.........

This dig dug score was done on the actual machine I believe...not in MAME so he has no replay file for it that he could potentially upload.

LN2 wrote:This dig dug score was done on the actual machine I believe...not in MAME so he has no replay file for it that he could potentially upload.

Uh...yeah. I think that's why he corrected himself. He was talking about Don's recording here at MARP....

Weehawk wrote:Uh...yeah. I think that's why he corrected himself. He was talking about Don's recording here at MARP....

Well, you are addressing the playbackability question he posed.

I was only replying to the request by him for dbh to submit a replay of the new WR score.

They are 2 separate things. I should have maybe quoted him but given I replied directly below his last comment, a quote didn't seem necessary.

LN2 wrote:Well, you are addressing the playbackability question he posed

No. I was addressing what I thought was your response to it.

LN2 wrote:I was only replying to the request by him for dbh to submit a replay of the new WR score.

His what? Unless I'm terribly confused here his second post was clarifying that his playbackability question referred to Don's recording at MARP, which he had failed to mention in his first post. He made no request for dbh to submit an inp from an arcade machine (unless he's terribly confused).

Somebody is confused, however.

Weehawk wrote:His what? Unless I'm terribly confused here his second post was clarifying that his playbackability question referred to Don's recording at MARP, which he had failed to mention in his first post. He made no request for dbh to submit an inp from an arcade machine (unless he's terribly confused).

His first post ends saying the WR is one helluva high score....then after that he states make that score here at MARP.

Those 2 together seem to state he wants dbh to play Dig Dug in MAME and try and match or beat that helluva score...so then he can watch the gameplay.

LN2 wrote:Those 2 together seem....

Yes, I understand it seems that way to you.

Weehawk wrote:Somebody is confused, however.

lippsman:

Don's recording playsback ok in XP using windows35tg3 mame

http://marp.retrogames.com/exe/m3235tg3.zip

the dosversion doesnt work usually at all in XP and only sometimes when you turn the sound off (doesn't work in digdugs case).

http://marp.retrogames.com/index.cgi?mo ... lines=9999

Thanks for the response. I think I need to set up a hard drive with 98 for most of these recordings. I contacted Twin Galaxy about getting a tape of the most recent high score on Dig Dug, but was told they didn't do that.

thanks again

Thanks for the response. I think I need to set up a hard drive with 98 for most of these recordings. I contacted Twin Galaxy about getting a tape of the most recent high score on Dig Dug, but was told they didn't do that.

thanks again