Regarding the whole Playchoice-10 thing... I must say that I like QT's suggestion best. "Archive" all the Playchoice 10 games and let the players buy as much time as they want. So if you want to show off on an NES game, go ahead... it just won't count for leaderboard points.(posted 8876 days ago)As QT noted, there are Vs. system games which are almost (but not quite) identical to the NES games, so I say we should wait until MAME has support for these. No messy time issues whatsoever. Sure, not all the Playchoice 10 games have Vs. equivalents... but as was mentioned before, the games will still have places on MARP for uploading.
Off the record, I don't see what all the fuss over recording Super Mario Bros. inps is. Any MARP'er that owned an NES owned SMB and no doubt finished it... so what's the big deal? I certainly am in no hurry to watch an .inp of it. But that's just me, no offense intended towards anyone. If anything I would like to see the arcade hacks eventually emulated... I saw one at a pizza place called "Skate Kid Bros.", it was screwed up. Mario was replaced by some kid on a skateboard, and the mushroom was replaced with a quarter (I assume, since it was a coin that said "25c"), which turned him into... uh, his big brother? Never mind, I'm starting to ramble.