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| alfonzotan:
--- Quote from: HanoiBoi on June 02, 2011, 08:59:07 am ---I seem to vaguely remember something about having lots of ships. I don't know about 50... Could they have been acquired through warping several times? --- End quote --- Nope, this was straight out of dropping in two quarters and pushing "Player 1." I think I ran into a grand total of two machines with the "50 for 50" setting back then, both in the Southeast. For obvious reasons (as arzoo notes above) it wasn't a preferred setting for arcades and/or vendors. Even in the few machines that had that setting, it wasn't advertised in the attract screens. You had to drop in your money and find out for yourself. Most of the time, of course, that just bought you 7 ships. As far as it being a special ROM, could be for all I know, but it definitely existed back then. I've never bothered to look for it in the emulation era, but I might have to poke around a bit now... UPDATE: From the Stargate manual (link below): The basic number of ships awarded for a 1 credit game can be set anywhere from 1 to 20. The recommended number of ships for a 1 credit game is 3. The basic number of ships awarded for a 2 credit game can be set anywhere from 0 (no 2 credit games) to 50. The recommended number of ships for a 2 credit game is 7. So there you go. My guess would be that in the games I encountered, the operator set the 2-credit ships to the max of 50 by accident (either that or a maintainer was really mad at his boss)... http://www.arcade-museum.com/manuals-videogames/S/StargateInstructionManual.pdf |
| DataWest:
--- Quote from: D_Harris on May 28, 2011, 12:30:47 pm --- --- Quote from: pinballwizard79 on May 28, 2011, 12:13:04 pm ---Too damn hard!!!! --- End quote --- Yeah, but only if you're a girl. ;D --- End quote --- :lol |
| pinballwizard79:
--- Quote from: DataWest on June 03, 2011, 10:50:13 am --- --- Quote from: D_Harris on May 28, 2011, 12:30:47 pm --- --- Quote from: pinballwizard79 on May 28, 2011, 12:13:04 pm ---Too damn hard!!!! --- End quote --- Yeah, but only if you're a girl. ;D --- End quote --- :lol --- End quote --- Whatever bitches ;D any game that allows you 50 lives for 2 tokens is obviously a PITA |
| taylormadelv:
My Stargate has the battery acid problem and it always resets each time it's powered on. If I don't hit the reset test button very quickly while the game powers up, it goes into that "50 ship/50 smartbomb" configuration automatically when I coin up the game. I can't tell the change has been made until you actually coin up. I think it was done on purpose, so that the operators could play a 50 ship game and put up a crazy HS that everyone would try shooting for, then reset everything back to "normal". BTW I always play standard, factory 3 ship games. My HS is 188,000 but I can't prove it since it resets! |
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