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opt2not:
Pardon the self-quote.

--- Quote from: opt2not on October 22, 2015, 07:50:41 pm ---
* Pacman Vs. (this would have been an awesome arcade cabinet, though it would have to have 2 screens facing away from each other. But it could host 2 Gamecubes, one with a Gameboy Player for the GBA connection)
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Was looking around the net to see if this is indeed possible, and it looks like the Racketboy guys covered it here:
http://www.racketboy.com/retro/pac-man-vs-party-without-a-gameboy-advance

Looks like I'm going to be picking up a second GC.

Edit: oh, I could just use my Wii along with the GC instead!
http://www.greatbitblog.com/how-did-i-do-that-pacman-vs-set-up/[/list]

Xiaou2:

--- Quote from: pbj on October 23, 2015, 12:18:12 pm ---
--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on October 22, 2015, 08:58:29 pm ---Target Earth (Genesis)

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Man, that's one you don't hear about every day. That was a very strange game that I randomly purchased when I was a kid. Never met anyone else that owned it or had even heard of it. We'd play through it every so often for years... but had to do the invincibility cheat.

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Cool. But I only thought the name was 'weird' ...at first.

The game is very much like a Japanese Anime. Quite epic. Totally "Arcade Hard". I think it took me a good hour or more... to figure out how to beat the first level. Trying to fight off every bot just gets you annihilated quick... as they swarm you to death.

Then it became a real challenge trying to max out on the bonus points... such as defeating the 1st level ship at the furthest distance possible. This would give you more weapons to play with on the next level.

I think I got about 5 levels deep in it... before I found out about the cheat.

Even with that cheat... I loved how you could end up with a "Game Over"... such as not getting into the ship soon enough, it will just take off without you. I was in shock, but hey, its realism. Speaking of realism... I also liked the fact that if you launched one of your explosive cannons... and walked into the explosions you made... it would hurt you. So many games do not allow that to happen. Ohh... and I love that the game even has areas where your friends help out in the battle. Sure, they are not very good... but its fun to see that level of greatness in a games programming / design.

I never did this before... but one day I actually called a company about the game. I cant recall where I got the number, or which company I had called. The lady on the line told me some things about the game, and she sent me several sheets of tips, about how to get through the game. Sadly, Ive long since lost them. Though, maybe someone still has them online. Id hate to think I had something special... only to have it get lost.

One day, I vow to try to beat that game without the cheat. I think its possible, but it will be a serious challenge.

I vow the same for TFII. Ive only beaten it when Ive used the level select, skipping the first 5 or so levels.. and even that took me like a year of off and on attempts. One day Ill try to master all the levels, and get through the full thing in one shot.

Interesting enough, I found out about the original TFII version on the x68000 computer. It has more levels, more parrallax scrolling layers, better sound, and more. The genesis version is actually somewhat harder in a certain spot... as they changed one of the bosses bullet spread. It was so bad... that the only way I was able to defeat it, as the use the start/pause button like a slow-motion effect, by rapidly tapping it on/off. That was brutally difficult to do while trying to play. Im not sure if there is a level select on the x68000 version... and being that the thing is in Japanese, in not sure it would be easy to figure out.

vwalbridge:
I'm not sure it's worth building an entire cab for, but if you threw in the sequel it might.

R.C. Pro-Am

Why?

- Arcade games are typically quick play games. Walk up, drop a coin and start playing right away with very little instruction. RCPA fits that bill
- Only needs left and right for movement. You culd use a 2-way joystick. Making the fast-twitch steering with a joystick possible.
- The difficulty curve accelerates quickly like most arcade games.
- The game has enough variety to keep you interested. 32 race tracks.
- Excellent sound and music
- R.C. pro-am II has the ability to play up to 4 players so you could build a 2-player cab
- One negative - High scores are erased when game is powered off.

Howard_Casto:

--- Quote from: opt2not on October 23, 2015, 05:16:14 pm ---Pardon the self-quote.

--- Quote from: opt2not on October 22, 2015, 07:50:41 pm ---
* Pacman Vs. (this would have been an awesome arcade cabinet, though it would have to have 2 screens facing away from each other. But it could host 2 Gamecubes, one with a Gameboy Player for the GBA connection)
--- End quote ---

Was looking around the net to see if this is indeed possible, and it looks like the Racketboy guys covered it here:
http://www.racketboy.com/retro/pac-man-vs-party-without-a-gameboy-advance

Looks like I'm going to be picking up a second GC.

Edit: oh, I could just use my Wii along with the GC instead!
http://www.greatbitblog.com/how-did-i-do-that-pacman-vs-set-up/[/list]

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Could that be done with emulators? Even if a person had to modify one it would be less convoluted. That's a great game though.... Nintendo kind of re-did it in NintendoLand with the hide n seek game.

opt2not:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on October 23, 2015, 06:16:00 pm ---Could that be done with emulators? Even if a person had to modify one it would be less convoluted. That's a great game though.... Nintendo kind of re-did it in NintendoLand with the hide n seek game.

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I'm not quite sure. The biggest challenge would be the second output through the GBA. I haven't messed with Gamecube emulation to know whether the current emulators support the GBA add-on games. If they do then this would definitely be cleaner on PC.

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