These might be just a game inconsitancies in the real arcade as well, but one thing i noticed is that Alex started with one more life than all the other recordings did. I'm sure this was unintentional, but if the defaults lives for the game have changed in later mame versions, the respectfull thing to do is to change settings to what ever they were that people have recordded before .(posted 9139 days ago)at anyrate, he plays very very well.