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The default settings for Marble Madness (set 1) from MAME37b15 onwards are now easier than before. The defaults for all the other sets are unchanged though.
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Tommi Tiihonen has the top score for this rom done on the older settings, it was a great game done with a trackball and shows a nice trick at the end of the ultimate race.

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However, what is the rule? Anyone now attempting a high score for this rom gets 15 seconds extra time!

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garyjlee@hotmail.com

General rule is newer settings hold precedence.
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However, there was a rule change that I started to introduce where
the top 3 players could vote on making a game TG settings only. I
don't think this ever went to vote (I think it is posted
under 'illegal recordings' somewhere)

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The easiest solution for this game would be to have players play at
the TG settings, and make those the settings for the game (as we did
for Bombjack and Joust, which, incidentally, do not yet have a
Special Rules link attached to them to mention this fact) and then
you don't have to worry about settings cahanges between versions.

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qan@home.com

Let's keep it TG. I don't care what mame devs decide for default
settings...or would you want to make all your recordings again...

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jyasdgfsdf@ksudhf.asdkfh

I just checked and the difficulty settings for all the rom sets are
set to NORMAL by default. I think that when rom set 4 appeared, all
the others were shifted down a set to make room so that the latest is
now set 1. Unfortunately the NORMAL difficulty setting for the latest
rom set is easier than NORMAL difficulty the others it appears .

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So to make set 1 the same difficulty as the others timewise you would
have to press F2, change the difficulty to HARD, press F2 to get back
into the game and then escape and save the marble.nv file which must
be restored each time a recording or playback is made. Seems a bit of
a faff.

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garyjlee@hotmail.com