I don't like the idea of removing a player because they happen to have a slow computer, yes computers are cheap but many people are poor. I do like the idea of removing recordings if they are deteremined to be not played like the origonal aracade played. But i also think keeping the "illegal" recordings around isn't a terribly bad idea if other people can't get to levels "legally" and want to see what the higher levels look like. So here's what i radically suggest.(posted 9154 days ago)Create a new leader board that tallies only TGMAME scores. So people who want to complain about recordings need not care if someone climbs to the top of the non TGMAME leaderboard because it means you might have cheated in doing so.
Of course you can interet this like "wait, i'm high in the leader board and i didn't cheat????" which is an uncofortable position. But, you can always start uploading with TGMAME scores and you'll be competeing on a level where everyone starts from 0. You might also think "why the hell should i redo my scores just because some people cheat and i dont?" That I don't have an answer for, but i'd rather alienate people upset about having to make future recordings than people upset about having made past recordings.
I think cleansing the leaderboard pallet with a possibly uncheatable mame might eliminate the bickering and acusations (except for autofire for now (which also may go the way of the dinasour with a detection program.)) I don't think there would be any complaining if a scarily high score made by regular mame gets uploaded, since if they really wanted to show their stuff they can upload it TGMAME as well.