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2019-02-25

When I try to change the settings of MENACE2, the sixth move is considered "NaN"... Hope you can fix this

Alexis
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2019-02-25

@Alexis: Well spotted. There was a typo in the variable name used for the third move boxes, I've fixed this now

Matthew
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