Hello, I've recently acquired a Congo game and it appears that there is no way to zero out high scores. I discovered how to reset them but they reset to default high scores which are 1.5 billion and down to 900 million. I wanted to zero them out. I also noticed in the adjustments menu (A4) there are "Backup HSTD" settings and you can adjust those to whatever number you choose. Something easily achieved by beginners. My question is why are there or what are backup high scores? Why would this even exist?

Thanks!

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Quoted from TheNecromancer:
Hello, I've recently acquired a Congo game and it appears that there is no way to zero out high scores. I discovered how to reset them but they reset to default high scores which are 1.5 billion and down to 900 million. I wanted to zero them out. I also noticed in the adjustments menu (A4) there are "Backup HSTD" settings and you can adjust those to whatever number you choose. Something easily achieved by beginners. My question is why are there or what are backup high scores? Why would this even exist?
Thanks!

WPC/WPC-95 games had auto-adjust high scores. This allowed the games to give out - or try to keep as close to possible - a percentage of free games. After a certain number of plays (a high number; don't remember if that number is adjustable in -95 software or not) all the scores would reset. The 'backup' scores is what they would reset back to.

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