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mame = real arcade... or not ?
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RayB:

--- Quote from: TurboC-- on September 04, 2005, 12:15:25 am ---WHAAA??
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the3eyedblindman:
What makes an arcade machine real anyways ?...I have a mame cabinet, it plays real arcade games...it looks like an arcade machine, you would never know i built it.... it runs the games on a 27 inch tv covered by a happ bezel and plexi glass...it has a marquee, real arcade controls..... So isnt it an arcade machine? It doesnt have a real arcade monitor, its not a dedicated machine.... it is ran by a computer...so is it not an arcade machine? I dont even know???  ??? :-\
TurboC--:

--- Quote from: RayB on September 04, 2005, 12:55:32 am ---Refer to the post regarding erroneous z-80 initialization and then his comment will make sense. If it doesn't, ... well, there's no explaining it to ya
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Yes, I read the part where someone claimed the Z80 wasn't "initialized" properly.  I simply said, here's some other possibilities, and did you check them?  There are several flavors of the real Pac-man and different patterns for each.  Furthermore, as far as Ms.Pac, I've played enough of the real thing to know that there is not 1 set pattern, there is apparently a significant set of possible subpatterns that it pseudo-randomly chooses from.  The specifics of that choosing I don't know, I just know my very opening pattern and what to look for to avoid.

As far as the Z80.  Given that a microprocessor to my knowledge does not contain "initializable information" other than in the registers, I'm thinking it must be the register contents to blame?  Well, I only coded ASM on a motorola 68000, but whatever the problem is with Z80 emulation, you'd think they could fix it for gods sake, with such an old and popular chip...
rescue161:
I have an original (no mods at all) Pac-Man.  It doesn't even have a speed-up chip in it.  MAME plays exactly the same as my original Pac-Man.

There is a jumper on the Pac-Man board that can be shorted to make the game harder.  Maybe your has a different ROMs or has been modified.
Nataq:
Ok so maybe in patterns... But that seems pretty much the same to me then. Pacman ghost can START with a different pattern but the game will act the same from there. There wont be any ''random'' about the ghost running around (or is there ??) They should be programed to do the same thing let apart the starting path. At least thats the way I see it.

And about the display again... so having an arcade monitor will actually give you the exact thing ? No difference ? Are all arcade monitors the same (let appart the size ?).
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