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honkey:


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--- Quote from: honkey on September 19, 2011, 02:45:14 pm ---I imagine it would be pretty fun to play some NES and SNES maybe even some N64 games with a joystick and arcade buttons. I can imagine Battletoads and Double Dragon (The Ultimate Team) being a fun game to play arcade style. Do many people do this? If so, what are the most fun games to play like this?

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Battle toads and double dragon are arcade games why not play them in mame?

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I am talking about the combined game "Battletoads and Double Dragon: The Ultimate Team". It plays more like Battletoads than like Double Dragon, but they have some enemies from both games and you can pick between the three toads or Billy and Jimmy. I personally think it is more fun than Battletoads. Also though, the NES Battletoads and arcade Battletoads are different games.

Vigo:

Sometime if you played a game too much on a gamepad, you end up hating everything but the gamepad you played it on, and that is mostly out of habit. Most older games seem to be at least decent on joystick though.

Certain N64 games do work as well. Games that you do not need to do any precision aiming on, and never need to have the thumbstick at anything but full force often translate well. I remember the first N64 game I tried on arcade controls was Battletanx, and was actually presently surprised that it played OK.


--- Quote from: brad808 on September 19, 2011, 03:21:49 pm ---Battle toads and double dragon are arcade games why not play them in mame?

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Battletoads is really different from the console to arcade, they are both well worth playing. Double Dragon is different too, but the NES one isn't as good as the arcade version. Double Dragon II on the other hand, I personally think is better on the NES.

Donkbaca:

The Nes games will probably play well, there was play choice after all, same with the snes ones, but really most people prefer to play them on a pad, it just doesn't feel right to play some of them with arcade controls.

The N64 is not good on a cab, really, you can't play it with anything other than n64 controllers.  It doesn't work on a cab because most of the fun games have analog controls.  I use xbox controllers to play console games on my cab, and even then its hard to play N64 games, the xbox controllers have analog sticks, but don't have 6 buttons on the face like the n64 controllers do.

Vigo:

Agreed, a ton of N64 games, including a majority of the best ones, do not play the best. So many games are only playable on the 64 controller. If you are thinking N64 games, start with trying games like Dr. Mario 64 and experiment outward.

ark_ader:

Buy a X Arcade and you can play nearly all the consoles better.  :P

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