Just heard there's a new MAME beta been released.
Updated the STATS page to reflect recent changes. Kept yesterday's table alongside the new one.
Added the new games from MAME 0.33 beta 5 to the big summary table.
moonal2   "Moon Alien Part 2"
moonal2b  "Moon Alien Part 2 (alternate)"
Made a new page showing how many high scores people have. Currently JoustGod is in the lead, from TAB and some bloke called Zwaxy. Click HERE to take a look. It's also available by clicking "Stats" at the top of the screen.
Fixed the 10 million Galaga recording by Steve Krogman. I renamed the file to include the version of MAME in the link, but not on the web site. Or something. Anyway - it should be downloadable again now. Oh, and threadnet.com seems to have been suffering a little recently, but looks like it's working again.
Added a new Galaga recording from Steve Krogman - this time he tops the 10 million mark on Galaga (with fast fire hack), using the fast firing version of the ROMs. The zip archive includes a couple of screen shots, too. Watch out for RSI, man!
Uploaded a few more recordings. I didn't receive many recently though.
BeeJay asked me to stir up some Galaga related trouble - he's right on your tails, guys!
JoustGod has started including the version of MAME used to make a recording in the filename. It makes the file names pretty long, but isn't that just what we love so much about Windows? It would be a good idea if everyone started using the same filename format in future.
Added another of Brian Thompson's graphics.
Added the new games from MAME 0.33 beta 4 to the big summary table.
Added some graphics to the page, which were created by Brian Thompson. Thanks a lot, Brian!
Received more score confirmations from the ever-busy BeeJay. He's raised a couple of queries: JoustGod's Quantum recording only scored 48,100 (not 50,080) and KRA's Yiear only scored 133,200 (not 244,100). If anyone can get them to score the right scores, please let me know how!
The 'links frame' at the top of the screen was getting too wide on my browser, so I took all the game names (Kaos, Fairy Land, etc) and replaced them with a new 'Games' page, which links to each of the separate driver pages.
Renamed the diffs page to versions and added MAME DOS binaries for versions 0.30 and 0.31. People have been emailing me saying that some of the .inp files won't play back. The problem is that in some cases you need to use an older version of the MAME program. Go to the versions page if you're having difficulties playing any recording back, and if that fixes the problem, please tell me, so that I can make a note of which versions of MAME can play back which recordings. Thanks!
Got a bit better at Shinobi and improved my score some more. Got a few of the 'secret' 20,000 point bonuses for not firing.
Removed quite a lot of the ??? marks, thanks to the efforts of BeeJay and Steve Krogman validating that the replays in question get the stated score. Thanks guys.
Not a lot. Made a new patch file, for converting MAME 0.31 sources to MAME 0.33 beta 3 sources (since BeeJay was asking about it) and answered a whole plethora of email about why recordings won't play back any more (it's because you need version 0.30 of the MAME binary to play back anthing that was recorded with version 0.30 of the MAME binary.
Added the new games from MAME 0.33 beta 3 to the big summary table.
MAME 0.33 beta 3 is released. I made diffs from MAME 0.33 beta 2 and made a page for diffs, since Gridle's Diff Page seems to have stopped using diffs, in preference for whole files (739k as opposed to 228k).
Started looking at ROMs for Fairy Land Story with a view to making a MAME driver for it. Click to see progress (what the is of it).
Added a request from Pete Ashdown for help on Blaster.