Curiosity check:
1. Has anyone asked MARP or Twin Galaxies for an official ruling on whether submissions recorded on GroovyWolf are OK?
- Looks like MARP is OK with it
unless it's for a new high score, but TG appears to
only accept WolfMAME recordings.
3. Playback in a specified version of MAME is required to prove your scores. Detailed instructions about recording and playing back .inp files can be found here. It is therefore a player's responsibility to double-check their recordings to ensure that they playback properly. Recordings which do not play back under the version of MAME that you specified are subject to score-zeroing, modification, or deletion. If an editor changes your "claimed" score because the recording plays back to a different score, it will be indicated in the comments for that recording.
a) Use of Wolf- or TGMAME is preferred.
MAME u, -update versions are not allowed if your operating system has more official versions available.
b) As of 15 April 2007, use of WolfMAME is required if you take first place in any game. You can download WolfMAME from here.
For submissions using the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulation platform, Twin Galaxies only accepts submissions from a special version of MAME called, WolfMAME.
WolfMAME is a specially created version of MAME that supports recording 'inp' files. These files allow your gameplay to be played back by others and examined in real time.
There are many versions of WolfMAMEthat are available. Submitters are free to use whatever version they would like. However, it is a requirement that submitters enter in the 3 digit version number of the version of WolfMAME that was used for the score performance.
2. Are there any differences in the .inp recording and/or playback in GroovyWolf vs. WolfMAME?
- Does an .inp from one playback
exactly the same on the other?
- Are there indicators in the .inp that it was recorded using GroovyWolf or WolfMAME?
Scott