I find it quite a shame that a player of Mr. Gustavo's abilities has been made to feel that he is doing something suspect. If the accusers of his (or anyone else's, for that matter)can pinpoint exactly where the infractions are at in a particular inp AND be able to present a similar inp of the same game with the accuser's "default settings" to show a difference...then, we might have a case. Otherwise, it is indeed an honor system that we will have to go with here at MARP.(posted 9360 days ago)Yes, I'm quite sure that there have been cases here that a game has been played at framerates lower than other people have played the game at. However, there are no ways to positively detect this kind of thing at the present. To that end I say "oh, well"...
As much as I want to have numerous high scores (like many of you), I have conceded that unlevel playing fields are going to exist at times. But for the most part, I believe that most all of the players here at MARP are at least honorable enough as to not degrade the collection of fabulous feats of video game mastery that make the MARP site so much fun to observe. I have learned so much from watching you folks playing many of these games at such an incredible high level that it makes me "green with envy"!
I do have a suggestion for Chris, though. It seems that there are numerous games with no ability for proper playback. Frogs, some of the Head On games, and Safari just to mention a few. For those, I suggest that we just eliminate these games from competition until the playback issue is resolved. Yup, that will cost me some points I'm sure, but I feel that this is one of the steps necessary to avoid any future controversies. This suggestion would also apply to any recording that cannot be played back even though the game normally supports proper playback. If the inp doesn't playback, then throw it out, simple as that. If the issue of verification is to have any validity, then we must eliminate the games that have no way of being truly verified by a player's peers. I'm sorry, but a pcx can no longer hold water. I know that I have used this as a method of claim in the past, but I feel that in light of the current discussion, it can no longer be acceptable. This will curtail any future claims that certain players have "doctored" their pcx files.
As far as autofire goes, once again there is no real way to have a positive ID on this one at this time. Yes, there was a great deal of discussion when the monster Track & Field inps started floating in and everyone was trying to figure out how the meter in this game could be "pegged" without some kind of assistance...hmmm...once again, unless someone confesses or someone provides positive proof of an infraction, we go with the honor sytem until further notice whether we like it or not.
Well, I've done enough rambling for now. I'd like to hear other suggestions on the points I've addressed.
JoustGod
BTW- Congrats to Ken Okamoto for being the one to lock up the Japanese quiz games (qadj and cworld2j)! As predicted, the first player to understand Japanese is going to reduce the rest of us to mere rubble on these games. And then along comes Ken...