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PC Games - Good for TV in MAME Cab?
DigitalFusion:
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. .
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:
No games to suggest, just wondering how this was coming along.
DigitalFusion:
havent done any more testing... sidetracked by building a jukebox with a 12" touchscreen.
Hornpipe2:
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:
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.
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