MAME World Record: Track & Field 95,930

This is the world record for Track & Field. Achieved by: Tommi Tiihonen Date: February 7, 2002 Source: http://replay.marpirc.net/r/trackfld ROMSet: TrackFld Lives: 1 After Last Event: Game Over Cabinet: Upright Bonus Life: 100000 World Records: Erase On Reset Difficulty: Normal Special Rules: None

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1. This was my top game back in the day. Only played buttons, never saw any other type. Never heard of pencil trick either but I was a drummer and my speed was better then this video. High jump i remember was 3.54. Maybe 55. So 3.50 is not the high jump,record in fact even now I can beat that. Just don't have the speed anymore for running. Old age takes us all down at some point
2. Once played this game on one quarter for six hours. Finally just walked away. I was a proud "hands only" player and never used pencils or rulers. 7.97 I remember for 100 meters. After the Konami people put guards up to prevent pencil usage for whom I considered cheaters, I still got 8.04 using my bent pinky fingers. God I'm a loser.
3. bad very bad
4. I got 101 meters in javelin with NO emulator
5. Bad javelin score :) Used to go more than 100.
   My hi jump record was 2.52
6. happy days:)
7. Voice sound little bad
8. Loved this in the Arcades..... leaving with sore fingers!!!!
9. I nearly died laughing at the message at the very beginning. Has Konami ever been known to enforce copyrights on games over 30 years old?
10. why is the difficulty set to easy?, 16sec for the 100m! a bit suspect this
11. It's a shame that we don't know if this was on buttons or joystick because iwth the right joystisk, one that is very springy, and with the right technic (a gentle brushing across the top) then these peformances are possible.
    
    i don't like to boast but on the proper ones back in the day my performances on buttons were alot better (except for the hurdles - only got 9.84sec).
12. Why the two fouls in the high jump event?
13. out of interest is the any rules on joystick,way back i would use a master system joypad with the nub screwed in for running.
14. how is this a world record?? back in 84 I got 4,500,000 points during a 8 hour game. I scored sub 8 seconds  on the 100 metres and 2:49 on the high jump, I smashed every 1 of the other records.
    Also, why don't some of the times/records register? seems a little iffy to me!
15. Didn't the original arcade of this use a joystick?
16. Hi great vid, I just recently got a custom track n field mame cabinet but the buttons are not much good for playing (happ arcade buttons i think), they are too stiff for mashing properly, what buttons would be best to get fitted for playing these games, and can you change the fitting so they are super sensitive etc, thanks
17. I wouldnt mind having a go at the record of this. how do i record my game ?
18. This is most definitely NOT autofire.  This is the recognized MAME world record both at Twin Galaxies and at MARP, and both of them have reviewed the replay for autofire.  I have video of Tommi playing hurdles on a cabinet, and Tommi has played live at Funspot in years past and demoed his play button technique in front of top players.  I've personally analyzed this the INP file for this replay in detail and he is very very fast, but the individual button presses are not what you would see with autofire.  One thing Tommi does do in MAME to get an advantage is use a joystick for High Jump since rolling your fingers on the buttons with an eight finger technique is not as effective on High Jump as quickly moving the joystick back and forth.