sysval(pcount)

[Yoshi021]

sysval(pcount) would returns the total amount of active players, including those made by supermario64 cheats.

[Victor ManuelMR]

sysval(pcount) would returns the total amount of active players, including those made by supermario64 cheats.

Why the suggestion?

[Void]

sysval(pcount) would returns the total amount of active players, including those made by supermario64 cheats.

Why the suggestion?

Why the big text?
Although I do somewhat agree with Victor, the only way to even add active players aside from player 1 and 2 IS through using the cheat codes, which do disable saving.

[NESTED ERNEST]

In terms of optimization it is very good. In a normal 'For' loop you would have to do 128 iterations necessarily to cover all players:
For v(i)=1 to 128
if char(val(i)).alive=1 then
'scripts
end if
next

But with that suggestion, this loop would be faster.
For v(i)=1 to sysval(pcount)
next

I hope I have understood the suggestion well.