At this point, until I have enough proof, I don't wish to say too much, but I'd love to receive the following:

A recording sent to me by EVERY Editor using a TG3 version of MAME of the following games: Pengo, Puzzle de Pon, Zookeeper. And ALL of those recorded WITHOUT sound.

Yes, it obviously has something to do with Deca2001, and, I swear, it doesn't involve any Editors. I just want to check some things first before I say more.

Thank you!

Cheers, Ben Jos.

-- Anonymous, April 25, 2001

Answers

Oh, you don't even have to try very hard. As long as the recording is a few minutes long. Don't bother trying to get a high score or anything.

Thanks again.

Cheers, Ben Jos.

-- Anonymous, April 25, 2001

I've sent you 2 copies of each game, one with m35tg3b and one with win35tg3.

Hope that helps.

Cheers, BeeJay.

-- Anonymous, April 26, 2001

Sounds intriguing! My m35tg3b recordings are on the way, btw, i really tried hard to get a low score on those recordings, i'm so good at those particular games I could have played for hours... ;)

-- Anonymous, April 26, 2001

OK. Thanks all. I finally got around to analysing these. I just wanted to see if any of you got all 100% speed (so no 99% or 101% or similar) on any of these games. Several of you did. The thing is that one of the Deca2001 players (Christian Rduch) had a few .inps with all perfect 100%. After getting caught for something else, he started sending in a few of these perfect 100% recordings. This doesn't prove that he did not fake the speed, but at least it shows me that it's possible to get all 100%.

I saw something I had never seen before while analysing these, so I'm a bit puzzled about something else now, though... :-)

Anyway... thanks again.

Cheers, Ben Jos.

-- Anonymous, May 12, 2001

OK. Thanks all. I finally got around to analysing these. I just wanted to see if any of you got all 100% speed (so no 99% or 101% or similar) on any of these games. Several of you did. The thing is that one of the Deca2001 players (Christian Rduch) had a few .inps with all perfect 100%. After getting caught for something else, he started sending in a few of these perfect 100% recordings. This doesn't prove that he did not fake the speed, but at least it shows me that it's possible to get all 100%.

I saw something I had never seen before while analysing these, so I'm a bit puzzled about something else now, though... :-)

Anyway... thanks again.

Cheers, Ben Jos.

-- Anonymous, May 12, 2001

Oops. Sorry. Didn't mean to send it twice. I got an error message and immediately sent it again. The second time I got the error message, I actually took the time to read it, and it basically meant that the message was posted, but it couldn't send out e-mail notifications.

Cheers, Ben Jos.

-- Anonymous, May 12, 2001

OK. Once more, and then I'll stop. I just thought the actual error message was pretty funny:

"Something is horribly wrong with the email handler on this computer so we're giving up on sending any email notifications. Your posting will be enshrined in the database, of course."

Cheers, Ben Jos.

-- Anonymous, May 12, 2001

One more thing ben i don't know about the rest of your recordings, but my recordings were very SHORT. decreasing the chance that a 99 or 101 could have been tossed in after playing the game for some time. If this Deca2001 recording was a long one and had 100's there's slightly more chance that he did cheat, IF most of the short recordings we sent in did not have 100+-1's but the longer recordings did... just a thought about statistics

-- Anonymous, May 12, 2001

oh another note, i just got the same error that ben jos did, and now i realize why it's so easy to see the ips of people posting on the board, because the browser client machine is the one sending the mail notifications, pretty sneaky sis....

-- Anonymous, May 12, 2001