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OSCAR:


--- Quote from: the3eyedblindman on April 05, 2005, 11:30:39 pm ---Since Im almost finished with the "4 player mame cab", and I aquired this pc, I was thinking about just putting the pacman rom in there, and making a dedicated pac man cab, and wiring up a coindoor..(would have a mug of quarters of course, wouldnt charge..) I already have the one cab that plays "everygame", so I thought the dedicated pac would be nice, if any other rom it would be games that just use a 4 way stick and  no action buttons. The cab would be a complete replica, no changes anywhere. I was just wondering if pacman was a good choice, anyone think any other cabs would be better, or have other ideas for this pc?

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Certainly the Pac's are worth considering... But there's also Ladybug & Frogger if you don't want to add an extra button.  If you add that 'Fire' button, then you also get Space Invaders, Galaxian, Galaga, the DK's, Bombjack, Pengo....  All doable with Vantage and will work great w/ an old PC.

 

the3eyedblindman:

Is that all of them Oscar? Does anyone have a complete list of older games that use a 4 way joystick and 1 fire button?

the3eyedblindman:

Maybe Ill do a pac cab that plays classic games, even if it means adding three buttons or whatever, I believe there was a thread earlier with a list of all the best classic games, does anyone have it?

the3eyedblindman:

I have done some thinking, and honestly, if I do this, I will only have it play pacman. My mame cab plays all mame games, and has a ball top 4 way, so this one doesnt need to play every game again. I will probably just leave it turned on with pacman running to make it seem like a real pacman, and wire up a  coindoor. Then possibly in the future I may get a real pacman board.

daywane:

i am going through the same thing.
i am building a MS PAC cab.
Personally I wanted to put PAC Mame in it.
wife put her foot down. cant blame her, I have taken one hole bed room and have 7 cabs. I guess she can have 1 of them.
think about PAC Mame bunches of games and no extra buttons
( my ms PAC has a extra button allready in it even)
my plans are to use vantage on floppy and boot into MS PAC, I also plan on having a second floppy to sneak in for galaga

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