I'm not attempting a 10,000,000 point run on Space Jockey. The only way I could do that would be to find the stamina heretofore only mustered (supposedly) by one individual. I am NOT playing for 80 hours straight. All I was saying is that playing Leprechaun in the fashion I am going to is going to be just as boring. You did say milking the stages was legal, so I have taken this strategy to new heights in sheer monotony.

I still need to know whether or not videotaping a run on a version of MAME other than WolfMAME78 is legal though. I do not want to waste six hours doing the insane only to find I am going to be disqualified. Let me know.

Originally Posted by pacmanfevr76

Unless I have completely missed something or I have not played the game out long enough, I think I have "Lucky" figured out. It certainly looked like he had reached his top speed and I was effectively dodging him to the tune of 4000 points per minute.

On the earliest levels his top speed remains below your own anyway, so marathoning is very simple. However, I can't find a way of matching your 4000/minute & I'm not about to try either! :)

Originally Posted by Azrikal

How long is leeching a board?

Obviously not TG, but MARP recently used Pot O' Gold (a clone - gets faster quicker) and set a time limit of 20 seconds per board. I haven't read in any depth the TG policy...

I still need to know whether or not videotaping a run off of MAME is legal or not. I have more than one of these I'm gonna stab at. I need to know lest someone beats me to them. (I'm working on Leprechaun and Chicken Shift.)

OK. Pending the answer to the private message I sent you, Robert, I'm FINALLY going to complete this Leprechaun run. I will be leeching points like crazy for quite a long period of time. Not that the life count is going to matter to me, but I do have a question. It says \"three lives to start\" in the rules. When I set my dip switch setting for lives to \"3\" I actually start the game with four lives. Is that some bug in the program? Most likely I'm going to score the entire 1,500,000 on one life anyway and just let the rest of them die, but I want everything to be legitimate.

Finally, where do I send the .inp file?

This has got to be the most boring bounty to score. Having done a test run to see how long this is going to take, I say it will be right at the five hour mark. My strategy works and I managed to scrape together 622,815 in 2:04. I was going for the whole thing on one life, but I lost one at about 480,000 trying to glance at the clock. (That'll teach me.)

The bounty rules call for three lives and one extra. When I set the dip switches to three lives to start, it gives me four to start. I don't know if this is a glitch or not. In any event, I am going to tank the game after my fourth sleuth dies, just to be on the safe side. (I should be past 1,500,000 long before that happens.)