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Is it 3 or 6 guys start? Some people are telling me they play dk2 with 6 guys start. Whats the rules on this?

this question has never gotten answered here ... Is it o.k. to start with 3 or 6 guys? TG Lets us start at 6 guys

Well... unless special MARP rules are created, the usual DIP settings are MAME defaults (i.e. with nvram removed prior to recording). If there is a need for more lives (and I think with DK2, that isn't a bad thing), you'd need to ask for votes and see what other MARPers say.

simpsons99 wrote:this question has never gotten answered here ... Is it o.k. to start with 3 or 6 guys? TG Lets us start at 6 guys

TG doesn't track D2K in MAME, so that comparison is irrelevant. When you play on something here with "TG settings", it's the MAME version of what they track.

right TG Tracks scores from the DK2 Kit in which these Roms sets come from... With the TG Rules they have the 5 guys settings

simpsons99 wrote:Is it 3 or 6 guys start? Some people are telling me they play dk2 with 6 guys start. Whats the rules on this?

simpsons99 wrote:With the TG Rules they have the 5 guys settings

Are you saying TG rules are for 6 men start or 5 men start? Better yet, can you give a link to these TG rules? When I go to http://www.twingalaxies.com I don't seem to be able to find any rules for Donkey Kong II or any other games for that matter.

Until the full TG website is back up again and TG rules are actually available for everybody to look at, you're probably better off using the general MARP standard of MAME defaults.

Mame default is 3, so you've to play with 3 (till something else is voted)
EDIT: after checking, default is 6 so no problem, see message below

Phil Lamat wrote:Mame default is 3, so you've to play with 3 (till something else is voted)

First off i'm not asking for these scores to be tossed out.. But i just want an even playing field here. These are great players that had great games by TG Rules..

http://replay.marpirc.net/r/dkongx-dk2

TG actually had both 3 and 6 man tracks for the arcade version (I think 3 was added later).

Phil Lamat wrote:Mame default is 3, so you've to play with 3 (till something else is voted)

actually, checking it in 2 versions (140 and 148), it defaults to 6 men unless you go into the menu settings, then it's sets it to 3 automatically. This is required to play DK on that set though, since it defaults to D2K without going into the menu settings.

Sorry you're right, default=6.
So no problem to use 6 lives