[Kong]

Sorry for delay in communication. I was waiting to hear from other score mods to see how they would handle it as there were a couple issues. It is approved now.

The problems:

1. You use Start To Pause. This is against our rules. We wont delete the score for this but please don't do it again. Start To Pause makes the score more difficult to moderate and annoying for other players to watch. But the biggest problem is it makes the verification files very large which in turn increases the chances of the server losing your score. Which almost happened in this case.


2. On level 3-1 of SMB there is a trick to gain up to 99 lives. By our rules this is allowed as long as you don't gain the lives, die, repeat the level and gain the lives again. Which you did not.


3. But a question came up when you intentionally killed nearly all of those extra lives to repeat levels and rack up points. Part of our delay was deciding how we wanted to handle this. Our rules say you can do this only if there is a limit to how long it can be done. We had to find out if there was a limit or if we needed to change that rule. There is a limit - 99 lives from level 3-1 plus any other lives you get along the way so the limit is around 120 lives.

Twin Galaxies handles this problem by saying you can only use 5 lives max. None of our top SMB scores use under 5 lives. All our top SMB scores intentionally burn through lives to some degree.

We think the TG SMB rule is better than ours but we want one set of rules for every game instead of a bunch of special exceptions and rules for individual games. So you did not break the farm rule and we are not changing it just for one game. So the SMB rule is as long as you don't repeat the level 3-1 turtle trick you can farm as much as you want. Score approved.