This has been an interesting decision for me to make. You guys gave me a tough one for starters! I clearly see both sides of the issue here and could go either way for various reasons. After spending the last 2-3 hours reviewing recordings, I cannot definately conclude that besides the background missing, the emulation is 100% correct. However, I feel that regardless it would be a level playing field and that if there is some sort of quirk everyone must deal with it. GB's continued recording does show numerous valid hits causing shield energy loss, but there is one instance of unexplained flashing. Note that this may be a bug in the original program that the emulator is faithfully reproducing.(posted 9310 days ago)That said, I will let the game remain in the tourney. The possible quirk is not enough to pull the game out. However, Chris Parsley, your MAME 1st place score is incorrect and must be edited. The actual score should be 103275 not 121400. This is because you verified your recording by playing back at higher frame rates! Gotcha! Playing back at normal speed results in the correct score. As far as I can tell the DOS version doesn't not exhibit this problem. I will be looking for this kind of stuff, so watch it! :) PLAY ON!