Author Topic: PC Games - Good for TV in MAME Cab? (Read 33686 times)

DigitalFusion · « **on:** July 20, 2007, 01:36:51 pm »

Hey all,

I have recently started hunting for PC games for my cab. The MAME arcade games are good fun, but sometimes I want something with better sound and graphics. The issue with a lot of PC games is the TV display. There is also the issue with some games not converting well to a arcade CP and arcade style game play. Furthermore, finding games that are 1+ player and not online multi-player is also becoming increasingly difficult. I figured I would keep a running list here of the games I have tested on my cab, since there seems to be a decent number of us with TV displays in our cabs.

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Tested and Working Well:

Lego Star Wars II - great 1/2 player game with a selectable 640x480 rez.
Motocross Madness II - 1 player game. Works well as long as u have the indeos codec.
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2007 - 1-8 player game. Plays well, but menus are nearly impossible to read on TV. As long as you know what you are looking for, its not bad.

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Tested and Working, but possible issues:

Superbike 2001 - 1 player racing game. I have it running fine with Win98/ME compatibility mode. I find it impossible to steer thus far without all the AI options on. Not too fun when the computer is doing everything for you. Might take some more time to get down, but big learning-curve games arent all that great for a mame cab.
Xpand Rally Xtreme - 1/2 Player Rally racing game. Same issue as MM2, the steering is hard to get down.

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Tested and DOES NOT work well:

Star Wars X-Wing Alliance - This game requires a joystick. Even with PP Joy it did not play well at all. Relies on keyboard too much and doesnt have the arcade feel of game play.

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Future Testing

Madden NFL 2007
Playstation Emulator + Games

For the record I have a 2.4G Celeron, 1G DDR memory, and a Radeon 9600XT 256mb vid card. Feel free to suggest games to test, or suggest ones that you have tested and worked well on a TV display.

IG-88 · « **Reply #1 on:** July 24, 2007, 09:14:31 pm »

No games to suggest, just wondering how this was coming along.

DigitalFusion · « **Reply #2 on:** July 26, 2007, 01:00:12 am »

havent done any more testing... sidetracked by building a jukebox with a 12" touchscreen.

Hornpipe2 · « **Reply #3 on:** August 16, 2007, 05:38:18 pm »

Couple of suggestions:
* Hunter Hunted. It's an old Sierra side-scrolling platform game. You can play through a set of 1-player, 2-player co-op, or 2-player deathmatch missions. Plays at 640x480 resolution. Controls would be an 8-way and up to 6 buttons/player. (I recently put together a CD image of this with a new installer so I could try it out with an arcade controller, but alas I don't actually have mine built yet! If anyone else wants to try it out I am curious how it would play) Downside: Mouse or trackball of some sort would be required to navigate the menus.

* Lode Runner Online. Another Sierra game, this one despite having 'online' in the title supports two players on screen at once. It's a much amped up Lode Runner and is available as abandonware (from the programmer's site no less - search Google)

northerngames · « **Reply #4 on:** August 16, 2007, 06:43:35 pm »

dunno about a tv becuase I use a arcade monitor but still should look good on a tv.

DUKE NUKEM MANHATTAN PROJECT set at 640X480.

must have a 6 button player control though.

AtomSmasher · « **Reply #5 on:** August 16, 2007, 09:04:00 pm »

Quote from: northerngames on August 16, 2007, 06:43:35 pm

dunno about a tv becuase I use a arcade monitor but still should look good on a tv.

DUKE NUKEM MANHATTAN PROJECT set at 640X480.

must have a 6 button player control though.

Good call, I forgot about that game.

ahofle · « **Reply #6 on:** August 20, 2007, 01:20:06 am »

Feeding Frenzy
Feeding Frenzy 2
Luxor
Luxor 2
Mechatron
Chromium
Platypus

(Google "<gamename> game") to get to the links).

Austin.Wolff · « **Reply #7 on:** August 20, 2007, 01:42:05 am »

Realistically, if i had enough pushbuttons (which I do), I could play WoW on my cab...

Hornpipe2 · « **Reply #8 on:** August 23, 2007, 12:12:36 pm »

I am considering a Nethack cabinet : )

vidmouse · « **Reply #9 on:** September 06, 2007, 03:52:48 pm »

Star Wars Rogue Squadron
Star Wars Episode 1 Racer
Anachronox (barely... hard to control)
Tomb Raider + sequels, to a point
Rune (hard to control)
Mechwarrior 3

Untested but SHOULD work:
Frogger (3d'd PC version)
Sim Theme Park
Baldur's Gate
Diablo
Septerra Core (this can ONLy run at 640x480)
Blade of Darkness
European Air War
Jane's WWII fighters
Microsoft Combat Flight Sim + sequels

Tested, doesn't work
Crimson Skies

Akuma · « **Reply #10 on:** September 06, 2007, 05:02:12 pm »

Try "Pong" in a whole new dimension called "Plasma Pong"

http://www.plasmapong.com/

DarkBubble · « **Reply #11 on:** September 06, 2007, 09:23:22 pm »

My boss, a total non-gamer, pointed me to Plasma Pong. It's a trip and a half. That and Grid Wars (Geometry Wars clone) belong in cabs.

xmenxmen · « **Reply #12 on:** September 07, 2007, 10:54:22 am »

I don't see Doom or Quake in there. Both should work fine in XP.

With the title that you are looking at, you might want to also consider the N64 emulator. There's tons of nice games on there and graphics are similar to what you have listed.

nexus6 · « **Reply #13 on:** September 07, 2007, 11:10:02 am »

outrun 2006
guilty gear isuka, XX and whatever …
raiden III
super puzzel bubble
shikigami no shiro 1-3
melty blood + melty blood react (i'm not able to configure the keys. has anybody done that?)
perfect cherry blossom, imperishable night and other touhou-games (i'm not able to configure the keys. has anybody done that?)

nexus6 · « **Reply #14 on:** September 07, 2007, 02:23:33 pm »

doublepost

emerica · « **Reply #15 on:** September 13, 2007, 07:44:26 am »

Quote from: DigitalFusion on July 20, 2007, 01:36:51 pm

Tested and Working Well:
Lego Star Wars II - great 1/2 player game with a selectable 640x480 rez.

The only problem that some of us might have with this game is that your video card needs to support pixel shader 1.1. I tried this game in my cab and wasn't able to play b/c of my older video card. [/list]

advantis · « **Reply #16 on:** October 25, 2007, 04:10:49 pm »

By far the best PC game in my cab is NFL Blitz 2000. Plays identical to the arcade. It was very hard to find. Graphics are still outstanding.

jimjim · « **Reply #17 on:** October 27, 2007, 05:32:59 am »

Blitz doesn't play on XP.

Great game with use of the old 3Dfx graphics. I used to play it all the time on my computer. I recently bought it for this purpose, and I could not get it to run. I took it to my buddies house, and same thing. I really wanted it on my cab. It is in the N64 emulator.

northerngames · « **Reply #18 on:** October 27, 2007, 03:19:51 pm »

pong link abobe closed now they must have gotten in trouble for the name?

advantis · « **Reply #19 on:** October 30, 2007, 12:34:02 pm »

I play NFL Blitz PC CD game. I created an ISO of it and then mounted it to a virtual drive and then put a shortcut on my desktop. Works great on XP.

Dmod · « **Reply #20 on:** October 30, 2007, 07:02:59 pm »

I've been researching this as well for a driving cabinet. I want to be able to run without a keyboard. These seem to work so far:

Need For Speed II
Need for Speed Underground 2
Crazy Taxi
Midtown Madness

These don't seem to work as well:

Need for Speed: Porsche - Requires keyboard
Midway Arcade Treasures Deluxe - Long loading time. No analog controls.

Still hunting...

Organic Jerk · « **Reply #21 on:** November 23, 2007, 02:41:58 pm »

Quote from: xmenxmen on September 07, 2007, 10:54:22 am

I don't see Doom or Quake in there. Both should work fine in XP.

Doom Confirmed!

I have a WHOLE section dedicated to Doom and Doom WADS...

Using the Doom Legacy Port, you can use splitscreen to have both Co-op and Deathmatch play, which is Awesome...

using Batch files (or Howard Casto's PC Games Launcher) you can have the WAD's listed in the FE and load straight to them..

It's good stuff.

LeedsFan · « **Reply #22 on:** January 11, 2008, 04:59:40 pm »

Quote from: Austin.Wolff on August 20, 2007, 01:42:05 am

Realistically, if i had enough pushbuttons (which I do), I could play WoW on my cab...

But this site states "step up to real gaming". So it would have to be FFXI... and not kiddy WoW!

PhoneLine · « **Reply #23 on:** January 19, 2008, 02:38:26 pm »

I currently have the PC versions of MK4, and House of the Dead 1, 2 and 3 on my cabinet using a 27 inch TV, and all look and play fine.

For the HOTD games I use 2 LCD Topgun guns.

jono · « **Reply #24 on:** June 30, 2008, 05:04:22 am »

just picked up V8 Super Cars 3 out of the bargain bin which works pretty good on my driving cab loading alittle long about the same as outrun 2006

jtslade · « **Reply #25 on:** October 30, 2008, 11:56:11 am »

Interstate 76 was da bomb, if you have a wheel on the cab

Original Tomb Raider / Tomb raider 2

Mechwarrior 2

Wing Commander series

Full throttle

Tie Fighter, (sure its good, but its no Tie Fighter)

Battlezone

old tiger woods game or PGA Pro Tour

NHL 98

you don't know jack

Epyx · « **Reply #26 on:** November 04, 2008, 02:48:25 pm »

Here is a fantastic *Freeware* site (a few demos too) with many, many excellent PC freeware games many of which are perfect for cabs:

http://freeware.remakes.org

hms666 · « **Reply #27 on:** November 12, 2008, 09:01:05 am »

http://www.trackmania.com/en/

nickynooch · « **Reply #28 on:** December 16, 2008, 11:53:26 pm »

Quote from: Organic Jerk on November 23, 2007, 02:41:58 pm

Quote from: xmenxmen on September 07, 2007, 10:54:22 am
I don't see Doom or Quake in there. Both should work fine in XP.

Doom Confirmed!

I have a WHOLE section dedicated to Doom and Doom WADS...

Using the Doom Legacy Port, you can use splitscreen to have both Co-op and Deathmatch play, which is Awesome...

using Batch files (or Howard Casto's PC Games Launcher) you can have the WAD's listed in the FE and load straight to them..

It's good stuff.

Does that Doom Legacy port work with Doom 2 also to make the split screen multi-player mode? That's pretty rad. Are the batch files difficult to set up. Using Maximus Arcade I believe I need to create batch files to make it look good.

Also, nobody listed a couple off the top of my head....

MUGEN!!!!!!!!!!!
Super Mario War

massive88 · « **Reply #29 on:** December 17, 2008, 09:50:44 am »

Yes DooM2 works on Legacy Doom, I love it. Though, no one ever wants to play me in it...

The batch files are easy to setup.

Bluedeath · « **Reply #30 on:** March 06, 2009, 10:46:53 am »

moto racer 1 & 2

Hornpipe2 · « **Reply #31 on:** July 09, 2009, 11:31:04 am »

WORMS (2, Armageddon, World Party, etc.) Need a trackball for menu navigation, but this would be a blast on a big screen with sticks and buttons.

King Nerd · « **Reply #32 on:** July 11, 2009, 12:06:47 am »

Quote from: Hornpipe2 on July 09, 2009, 11:31:04 am

WORMS (2, Armageddon, World Party, etc.) Need a trackball for menu navigation, but this would be a blast on a big screen with sticks and buttons.

I've played these games on a projector. About an 80" screen, with four people. It's INCREDIBLE.

jimmy2x2x · « **Reply #33 on:** June 05, 2010, 10:29:48 pm »

A couple that I have on my cab

Qwak

Steel Savour

Looks like SS should be demanding, but runs very smooth on humble hardware
You can pick this up very cheap on ebay/amazon

Epyx · « **Reply #34 on:** June 07, 2010, 02:08:21 pm »

I gotta say that Steel Saviour looks amazing...looks like one I will definitely be adding to the cab.

XCVG · « **Reply #35 on:** June 08, 2010, 11:29:17 am »

Tyrian. It's an old vertical shooter for PC. The real version lacks sound on 90% of computer hardware (needs horribly obselete sound cards) but the OpenTyrian port works.

Edwards80 · « **Reply #36 on:** June 08, 2010, 11:46:23 am »

Another shout for QWAK. Super addictive game. To be honest it will be one of the 1st I play when my cab is done.

I managed to pick up the last of the 300 cart production run for QWAK on the GBA :-) No other games have been near my GBA since!

http://thelettervsixtim.es/ is good too

opt2not · « **Reply #37 on:** June 08, 2010, 03:11:16 pm »

Typhoon 2001 (remake of Tempest 2000)

Tetroid 2012:

shateredsoul · « **Reply #38 on:** June 09, 2010, 02:14:08 am »

don't forget Big Bang Beat.. by the way, tetroid is f'in creepy. Never thought a tetris game would creep me out.

opt2not · « **Reply #39 on:** June 09, 2010, 04:28:02 am »

Quote from: shateredsoul on June 09, 2010, 02:14:08 am

by the way, tetroid is f'in creepy. Never thought a tetris game would creep me out.

LOL!


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Author Topic: PC Games - Good for TV in MAME Cab? (Read 33686 times)

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