Guys, are you using 8 way input for your runs?

You can check if diagonals are being tracked going into service mode and doing the input test. Are the diagonals being lighted up or not?

Judging the Lvl 33 of both of you(haven't done further research) I would say both of the current submitted runs have the diagonal input allowed.

I have no problem at all with that, in the arcade machines i played when i was young the 8 way input was working fine, but according to Mame patch notes pang3 is 4-way:

rom mameinfo.dat: 0.178: AJR changed joysticks in Pang! 3 to 4-way as flyers and manuals indicate. Removed buttons 2 and 3 (even service mode only shows one "Shot" button).