Fair Play & Score Integrity
ScoreNet is designed so a fast arcade run can become a lasting public record without asking players to trust an unexplained number. The platform verifies scoring sessions, protects retryable submissions, screens invalid requests, supports review, and preserves finalized competition history.
Competitive submissions are associated with a recognized ScoreNet cabinet and scoring session. The server can reject missing, malformed, expired, or otherwise invalid session information rather than accepting an arbitrary score value.
ScoreNet can evaluate the cabinet identity, approved build context, elapsed timing, and score relationship. Impossible timing or incompatible request patterns can be rejected or flagged for review.
A protected score should survive a temporary connection problem without appearing twice. Submission identity and replay-safe handling allow legitimate retries while preventing duplicate accepted results.
When a legitimate score cannot be delivered immediately, the client can retain recovery information and retry with bounded backoff. Support identifiers help investigate failures without requiring players to expose a Passport recovery key.
Official ScoreNet Rating, public championships, private tournaments, achievements, and permanent cabinet records can use the same accepted run without allowing tournament cleanup to destroy legitimate player history.
After review, a completed public or private tournament can be finalized into a stable historical result. Organizer controls affect tournament membership or status—not the underlying permanent scores earned legitimately.
Automated controls cannot explain every unusual result. ScoreNet maintains a human support and review path for suspicious scores, submission failures, privacy requests, and security reports.
Operational telemetry is used to understand reliability, fraud indicators, device compatibility, and failures. ScoreNet does not need to build a cross-site advertising profile in order to protect the arcade.
