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| epetti:
I started my cabinet with almost equal weighting MAME and console/PC games. After I configured everything and started playing through I slowly started removing console/PC games as I found they just didn't work with the limited set of controls and quick play time that I wanted for a stand up cabinet. I'm still tweaking the list, but there definitely are some winners that I think work great on the cabinet. A few are: Many TI-99/4A games, if you're familiar with that computer. Of course, many are varying clones of arcade games, but different enough to add their only level of fun. Actually, almost every TI-99/4A game works well as an arcade game. Some old PC/Commodore games: - Lode Runner - Boulder Dash and Boulder Dash II - Some old Apogee games like Commander Keen and Duke Nukem and Wacky Wheels - Micro Machines (different versions run on PC or consoles) Some more arcade-like Nintendo and Sega games. I see Super Mario Bros. falling on both sides of this, but I feel that if you configure the equivalent of Save State on MAME so you can pick up where you left off, then individual levels work well for a quick fix. |
| rCadeGaming:
Some of what Xiaou2 is saying is making sense to me... I think I must have finally gone off the deep end... (although idk about the TF 2 vs. 3 thing) Here's a list I already had going of console games which play much better on a cab than with a controller. They're all shmups, fighters, or beat-em-ups. For the older consoles, no arcade ports are included unless they're superior or significantly different from the arcade version, or not emulated well in MAME. Starting with the Dreamcast, you'll start seeing a lot of straight ports, just because they're not available in MAME yet. I left off platformers, because using a stick for them is controversial. Personally, I would play Mario, Sonic, Castlevania, etc. with a controller because of tradition, but for especially demanding stuff like the Mega Man series, Mega Man X series, Contra series, Hagane, Rocket Knight Adventures, Super Meat Boy, etc., I think a stick gives you a needed edge. My collection/to buy list is a little overboard, so I'll bold the ones I'd especially recommend. -Nintendo- Crisis Force (NTSC-J) Guardian Legend Gun-Nac Recca - Summer Carnival '92 (NTSC-J) -PC Engine- Blazing Lazers Super Star Soldier Final Soldier (NTSC-J) Soldier Blade Air Zonk -PC Engine CD- Alzadick Gate of Thunder Lords of Thunder Nexzr Special (NTSC-J) Rayxanber III Ginga Fukei Densetsu: Sapphire (NTSC-J) Seirei Senshi Spriggan (NTSC-J) Spriggan Mark 2 (NTSC-J) Terraforming Air Zonk: Rockabilly Paradise -Sega Genesis- Super Fantasy Zone (NTSC-J/PAL) Gleylancer (NTSC-J) Ms. Pac-Man (Tengen) M.U.S.H.A. Steel Empire Target Earth Thunder Force II Thunder Force III Lightening Force (Thunder Force IV) -Sega CD- Bari-Arm Robo Aleste Silpheed Soulstar -Sega 32X- Kolibri Zaxxon's Motherbase 2000 -Super Nintendo- Biometal (NTSC-J) Firepower 2000 Ninja Warriors R-Type III: The Third Lightning Space Megaforce (Super Aleste) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time Wild Guns -Sega Saturn- Assault Suits Leynos II (NTSC-J) Guardian Heroes Radiant Silvergun (NTSC-J) Thunder Force V (NTSC-J) -Playstation- Gaia Seed (NTSC-J PSX) Gradius Gaiden (NTSC-J) Guilty Gear Harmful Park (NTSC-J) R-Type Delta Silhouette Mirage Zanac X Zanac -Nintendo 64- Sin & Punishment (NTSC-J) -Sega Dreamcast- Border Down (NTSC-J) Capcom vs. SNK Capcom vs. SNK 2 (NTSC-J) Chaos Field (NTSC-J) Fast Striker Ikaruga (NTSC-J) Last Hope - Pink Bullets NEO XYX Psyvariar 2 (NTSC-J) Radirgy (NTSC-J) Shikigami no Shiro II (NTSC-J) Triggerheart Exelica (NTSC-J) Trizeal (NTSC-J) Under Defeat (NTSC-J) Virtua Fighter 3TB Zero Gunner 2 (NTSC-J) -Playstation 2- Do Don Pachi Daioujou (NTSC-J) Ibara (NTSC-J) Gradius V Guilty Gear X Plus Guilty Gear XX R-Type Final Rez Silpheed: The Lost Planet Raiden III Thunder Force VI (NTSC-J) Virtua Fighter 4: Evolution -XBox- -Playstation 3- BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger BlazBlue: Continuum Shift BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition -PSN- Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus Pac-Man Championship Edition DX Space Invaders - Infinity Gene Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix Street Fighter III: Third Strike Online Edition -XBox 360- Deathsmiles DoDonPachi Resurrection Deluxe Edition (PAL region-free) Eschatos (incl. Judgement Silversword + Cardinal Sins) (NTSC-J region-free) Espgaluda II (NTSC-J region-free) Mushihime-Sama (NTSC-J region-free) Mushihime-Sama Futari (NTSC-J region-free) Raiden IV -XBLA- Deathsmiles II Mega Shooter 11 -Nintendo Wii- Castle of Shikigami III Sin & Punishment: Star Successor -VC- Gradius Rebirth |
| shponglefan:
Couple more for NES: Abadox (shmup) TMNT: The Arcade Game (has a couple extra levels compared to the arcade version) |
| shponglefan:
--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on April 01, 2013, 04:21:41 am --- I also dont get this. --- End quote --- It seems whenever someone brings up console games on an arcade cabinet, invariably someone will chime in about how they are meant to be played sitting on a couch. And, truth be told, this is true for probably most console games. But it's about genres/individual games than platforms, and there are plenty of console games which play fine on a cab. |
| mamenewb100:
I think most simple games like Sonic and Mario control a lot better with a joystick than a gamepad. Though I imagine Sanwa sticks would fair better than American because of the shorter stick travel. Of course games that were designed for triggers or analog sticks won't fair too well on a cab, unless you have specialized controls. |
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