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Control panel review - 4 player with spinner
vidmouse:
My kids play TMNT and shooters. Guess I'll reap what
I sow later :P
I used to be able to play Doom for hours but nowadays
it and other FPS games make me nauseous. I think it's
a form of motion sickness. I seem to do alright w/
racing games and Mechwarrior, but those have a cockpit
(sort of) so maybe that's the difference.
BTW, Mechwarrior 3 runs GREAT on my cab, just need to
remap a few more buttons to keep my butt from getting
kicked.
I also tried Spider-Man (not the movie version but the similar
one that came out before) and it works... heh, I'm equally
bad at the controls whether I'm using a keyboard, gamepad
or my arcade controller.
Zebidee:
My kids are too little for "fighting games", but they are little girls so we'll see.
I used to play DooM a lot - in fact, I was crowned "Fragmaster" in 1995, and have a little trophy somewhere. I also did a lot of DooM deathmatch (and single play) level editing, and some of my levels were very popular back then. In fact, you can find them on shovelware CDs full of modded doom levels. When I set up DoomM on my cab, I couldn't find my old backups so I downloaded them instead!
Motion sickness is common in DooM players. I never got it, but then I'm probably sick already :) . I always took regular breaks in DM though (I didn't like playing more than about 20minutes in a stretch - built up too much stress/adrenaline).
Believe it or not, playing DooM really expanded my sense of physical awareness. After DooM, I became much more aware of where things were BEHIND me, when I couldn't see them.
I have a desk and cupboards littered with old PC games. I am one of those people who likes to keep them instead of letting them go to the secondhand store.
I'm looking forward to getting mechwarrior setup, and a few more when I have the chance. I never got into Mech before, so could be a chance to make up lost time. Did you set it up under Mamewah?
vidmouse:
--- Quote from: Zebidee on May 16, 2007, 05:57:38 pm ---I'm looking forward to getting mechwarrior setup, and a few more when I have the chance. I never got into Mech before, so could be a chance to make up lost time. Did you set it up under Mamewah?
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No, but that's a good thought if you can do it.
Shoot, now I wish I hadn't sold off my copy of Earthsiege, that was a low-res
Mech kinda game, but I bet it would rock under my cab (everything else I seem
to put on there does ;D).
I guess part of using MAMEWah is to despoil the fact that there's a pc in there, but
for the games I mentioned (and on the Star Wars thread) I think having to
put the CD in to run the game would do that too...
That's cool that you built your own Doom levels. I never had the patience (back then)
I did load up a few nice conversions back in the day .. best one I ever tried
was the Aliens TC, that stayed with me even more than the orignal Doom.
Zebidee:
I have picked up some games from garage sales ("yard sales") , and literally just paid like $20-25 for about 50 games. Sometimes it is good just to have it. But then, I still have my AD&D books and haven't played that in over 15 years. Apparently they are starting to be worth serious money now.
Regarding MameWAH and the CD, I generally use Daemon Tools to mount CD images as a virtual drive(eg F:). You can either rip your own disc using your favourite software to some kind of image (eg iso, bin/cue, nrg) , or even just download it from somewhere.
Daemon Tools can mount and unmount virtual CD (and DVD?) drives from the command line, so it is easy to load them in MameWAH with pre- and post- emulator command lines. No mess, no fuss, no CD.
I'm thinking about setting up a MameWAH menu to help my kids choose their favourite windows games, using Daemon Tools extensively. Trouble is, I'd have to use game-by-game bat files as well.
Regarding DooM editing, I liked to evoke a feeling in the player .... and I liked to keep players on their toes. Back then it was one of the earliest 3D game environments we had to play in (OK, still pseudo 3D only), so I got into it. I saw a lot of shoddy levels, so was anal about making both the look and the gameplay just right.
One of my more famous DM levels, NIGHT2-0.WAD, was essentially a large arena with a few side-show corridors to some interesting ways of making players work for their weapons. I kept people moving by putting a cyberdemon in the middle on a raised platform and in a cage, unable to escape but continuously pumping rockets at players randomly. As a PC monster, it always shot where you were so as long as you kept moving, you were fine! The demon's rockets also had the side-effect of occasionally claiming the person chasing you with a plasma rifle. The entire sky texture was replaced with a night-sky starfield simulation, and a couple of the sounds were subtly changed/improved. Oh, the nostalgia! But when I downloaded it I found that someone had tamed-down the cyberdemon to a baron, who is just such a pu$$y-monster that I felt ashamed .... I mean, I recorded a demo once of me killing one of these with just a chainsaw ...... and they take only 50 solid hits with a single-shotgun (yeah, I counted..... :P ... and I also remember :dizzy:
Alien_TC was very popular and I played it, but it came out when I was big into DM - so Death Match demanded my attention! Meet the meat, so to speak. ;) Oh, the nostalgia ....
vidmouse:
--- Quote from: Zebidee on May 18, 2007, 06:51:44 am ---I have picked up some games from garage sales ("yard sales") , and literally just paid like $20-25 for about 50 games. Sometimes it is good just to have it. But then, I still have my AD&D books and haven't played that in over 15 years. Apparently they are starting to be worth serious money now.
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I picked up a DM guide awhile back but around here, it wasn't that great of a deal. I seem to find a lot of them at Half Price Bookstores or used bookstores.
Thought about drive mounting but I think my next step is to install a larger hard drive if I want to load in (mounted or not) games that take up more space than MAME roms. I pulled a 40GB out of my main desktop, it should suffice over the 8GB drive I have in the cab now. Probably a Sunday night chore after the kids are asleep... :)