Nicolai Czempin

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the most general way for "groups" would mean that teams are groups, nationalities are groups. I guess then affiliation history would also be useful, like we have team history now....

The most important part of reverse-engineering the ROMs is actually not the score, but the "lives" or similar metric that determines the terminal state: Many games that are "arcade-like" have...

Ideally we would like to be able to reverse-engineer both the score and the terminal condition. I already described that for many games, just being able to detect the terminal...

On my Kaboom! rom add, I came upon this issue, because the game freezes when you reach the max score (999,999). Without having seen this issue, I decided that termination...

> However, since this particular game just hangs, I assume it will eventually hit a timeout of sorts This has been confirmed since; for Kaboom! it is sufficient to check...

I agree with everything in 1). > 2. Re: score and lives memory, the ALE is reasonably stable now and there's probably little advantage to a major refactoring. But it's...

I also think that I may not have explained well what my plans are for 2). Will try do so eventually...

No, it's fine, they are not secret, once I get round to trying to clarify myself, I can just post them here.

I don't think "never fix anything" is a long-term viable solution to the issue of reproducible results. Published results need to specify the exact version they were using to get...