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| JCKnife:
One of my all-time favorite games is Ballblazer from Lucasarts, for Atari computers and 5200. Any of you running it on a cab? What's a good cab-friendly emulator that'll run it? |
| captainpotato:
I'm not, but you could always try an Amiga emulator, as the Amiga version was pretty good. From memory, wasn't the arcade version Amiga-based anyway? |
| JoyMonkey:
I remember an Amstrad port of Ballblazer called Trailblazer, so I Googled for "Trailblazer game" and came up with Chromadrome. It looks pretty good and they have a demo available. I haven't played it, hopefully it's cabinet friendly. |
| JoyMonkey:
I just gave the Chromadrome demo a quick go. All menu's and game control would rewuire a trackball, so it won't suit every cab. The gameplay isn't bad (I just played the first 'easy' level, which is pretty slow). One annoying thing is that the your ball character isn't animated- it's like it's hovering over the play-field rather than rolling over it. It lets you use your own MP3's as background music, which is a nice touch. Maybe there's more games like this out there? Edit: There is a Ballblazer remake for PS1, so you could use a PSX emulator in your cab to play that. There's a java based game called Trail Rider here. I found another shareware game called RetroSphere which has "Fully configurable video, audio, controls", so it sounds like it would work well in a cab. I'll have to give the demo a try. |
| JoyMonkey:
I just played RetroSphere and it's great! It's more true to the original, and it's got a two player split-screen mode :o In-game controls are keyboard mapped, so that shouldn't be a problem. The only thing is, the menu is mouse controlled only. Bummer. |
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