Author Topic: Links to pretty cool software to play on cabinet (Read 144157 times)

Frosty · « **Reply #240 on:** May 25, 2005, 05:09:34 pm »

If you've got a trackball, any version of Worms (Worms World Party in this picture) is great to play on a cabinet (its turn-based game play is perfect for a cab).

DreamWeb · « **Reply #241 on:** May 25, 2005, 09:22:57 pm »

Yes. I definitely agree. I have Worms World Party installed on my machine as well. Great fun.

Does anyone have a decent (virtual) pool game installed? I'd think it would be pretty nice on a cab.

d.

DreamWeb · « **Reply #242 on:** June 05, 2005, 05:36:13 pm »

I just found this one. A 3d marble madness remake.. That, visually, is quite nice looking!! The camera angles are pretty darn interesting, and the leves are reamkes of the arcade version.

I did find a couple of bugs though.. but, I'll let you decide on those for yourself.

http://www.lucaelia.com/games.php

tonyarcade · « **Reply #243 on:** June 06, 2005, 09:24:04 am »

The Star Monkey game looks cool...Also intrigued by "Art Is Dead," another game option by smae company...

SirPoonga · « **Reply #244 on:** June 06, 2005, 10:14:27 am »

Was watching Icons on G4. A game i played sometime ago came up, it should work for an arcade even though it isn't really an arcade like game

Grim Fandango. Great adventure game. It is controlled only by keyboard so is "should" be arcade compatible. I don't recall if the keys are remappable though.

namedos · « **Reply #245 on:** June 06, 2005, 12:55:44 pm »

It has been mentioned before but I've had an absolute blast playing Tiger Woods 2004 on my cabinet. Bought it a week ago at CompUSA for $10. Hundreds of user made courses on the web. I always enjoyed Golden Tee but the graphics and the controls in my opinion are significantly better on Tiger Woods.

Obviously you need a track ball but playing it in front of a 27" monitor about two feet from your face is much more interactive than playing on a desktop PC.

daveg2000 · « **Reply #246 on:** June 06, 2005, 04:09:17 pm »

Quote from: DreamWeb on June 05, 2005, 05:36:13 pm

I just found this one.

DreamWeb · « **Reply #247 on:** June 06, 2005, 05:47:18 pm »

SirPoonga,

I tried installing Grim Fandango on my cab as well... (I have all the Scumm games on there.. which work like a charm).. But I found that it needed too many buttons (not-remappable) to really make it worthwhile.

In the end, it just didn't work out.

d.

SirPoonga · « **Reply #248 on:** June 06, 2005, 07:25:53 pm »

yeah, I figured. It needs a bunch of buttons that aren't config. But if you want to blast your keyboard encoder with the right config it could be interesting.

BobbyG66 · « **Reply #249 on:** June 07, 2005, 12:11:26 pm »

Quote from: daveg2000 on June 06, 2005, 04:09:17 pm

Quote from: DreamWeb on June 05, 2005, 05:36:13 pm
I just found this one.

Chris · « **Reply #250 on:** June 07, 2005, 04:38:04 pm »

Quote from: namedos on June 06, 2005, 12:55:44 pm

It has been mentioned before but I've had an absolute blast playing Tiger Woods 2004 on my cabinet.

papaschtroumpf · « **Reply #251 on:** June 08, 2005, 01:47:45 pm »

The high scores belong to XX13Z for most PC games on my cab

XXX is a close second
whereas ZZ33 rarely plays, sho she is pretty low in most rankings

DreamWeb · « **Reply #252 on:** June 09, 2005, 12:05:09 am »

Quote from: papaschtroumpf on June 08, 2005, 01:47:45 pm

The high scores belong to XX13Z for most PC games on my cab

XXX is a close second
whereas ZZ33 rarely plays, sho she is pretty low in most rankings

Gold.

D5A1AC · « **Reply #253 on:** June 09, 2005, 05:31:05 am »

I don't know if this has been mentioned, but I use www.abandonia.net for abandonware retro classics. I have been checkign up on this site every now and then for the last 2 years

MrTroy · « **Reply #254 on:** June 10, 2005, 02:07:21 pm »

There should REALLY be a compiled list of games that work really well on Arcade Cabinets. That's constantly being updated or something

SQrL · « **Reply #255 on:** June 10, 2005, 07:43:26 pm »

the MAIN new game on my cab for me and all my friends has been "Trackmania Sunrise"...... all I can say is if you don't know what it is... OMG RUN TO GOOGLE NOW and download the demo... its a MUST BUY TOO! the track making community for it is insaine too!

saint · « **Reply #256 on:** June 10, 2005, 10:41:35 pm »

If you'll send it to me, and they don't object, I can host the file for anyone to download...

--- saint

Quote from: SpamMe on February 16, 2005, 05:18:33 pm

Just saw that Gish was mentioned a page ago. The game (including multiplayer modes) works great with a joystick/button setup, but the game menu system either required a full keyboard, gamepad, or mouse. The ChronicLogic folks were nice enough to provide a modified .exe that makes the menu system more cabinet friendly as well (menu works with up/down/enter instead), so if anybody needs it, send me a PM or something.

papaschtroumpf · « **Reply #257 on:** June 13, 2005, 11:45:16 am »

Quote from: SQrL on June 10, 2005, 07:43:26 pm

the MAIN new game on my cab for me and all my friends has been "Trackmania Sunrise"...... all I can say is if you don't know what it is... OMG RUN TO GOOGLE NOW and download the demo... its a MUST BUY TOO! the track making community for it is insaine too!

what kind of controls do you need for this game? not obvious from the web site.

papaschtroumpf · « **Reply #258 on:** June 13, 2005, 11:47:55 am »

My wife wanted more puzzle games on my cab so I went out and bought several pf popcap's games (www.popcap.com).
They all play well on a cab if you have a mouse (you may have to enter a player name with a keyboad the first time you run the game).
They have free versions but those bring up browser windows to advertize their other games, so in the end you're probably better off paying for them. They're pretty cheap but if you want a bunch they do add up.

Goz · « **Reply #259 on:** June 13, 2005, 11:50:35 am »

Quote from: papaschtroumpf on June 13, 2005, 11:45:16 am

Quote from: SQrL on June 10, 2005, 07:43:26 pm
the MAIN new game on my cab for me and all my friends has been "Trackmania Sunrise"...... all I can say is if you don't know what it is... OMG RUN TO GOOGLE NOW and download the demo... its a MUST BUY TOO! the track making community for it is insaine too!

what kind of controls do you need for this game? not obvious from the web site.

Controls fine with joy. Not great controls, but work

up = accelerate
down = brake
left = left
right = right

You can select tracks, etc with mouse.

It is a pretty nice game, I havent tried user created tracks yet, but will.

-Goz

Howard_Casto · « **Reply #260 on:** June 13, 2005, 05:39:27 pm »

Since the last reply still wasn't clear enough, the controls are completely re-mappable to both a wheel/analog stick or regular keyboard keys.

I must say I LOVE this game, however it's not fun unless you use some sort of analog device for control as it's a true arcade racer.

SQrL · « **Reply #261 on:** June 14, 2005, 02:37:53 pm »

I use Left & Right on my 8-way arcade stick. And I remapped gas, break, ect to buttons. Its a blast and very easy to play WITHOUT analog controls (It was made to be played using the arrow keys on your keyboard). Its more of a tap, tap, tap stearing "adjustment" game rather than ever so slight turning around corners (via analog steering).

SQrL · « **Reply #262 on:** June 14, 2005, 02:41:36 pm »

Get all the latest TrackMania Sunrise community maps here:
http://sunrise.tm-exchange.com/

Howard_Casto · « **Reply #263 on:** June 15, 2005, 04:02:21 am »

Quote from: SQrL on June 14, 2005, 02:37:53 pm

I use Left & Right on my 8-way arcade stick.

Jollyrob · « **Reply #264 on:** July 27, 2005, 02:05:16 pm »

old dos action puzzler, now abandonware

D/Generation, great game, i used to love it back in the haydays of PC gaming...circa 1991

http://www.gamingdepot.com/g/D_Generation

ViriiGuy · « **Reply #265 on:** August 08, 2005, 07:29:54 pm »

I am thinking the NFS games will be pretty sweet with my Driving CP Module,
When I buidl it that is

Paradigm1969 · « **Reply #266 on:** August 16, 2005, 02:13:35 pm »

I saw a post for a game called "Ballance" from - SaiNRuB

What a relaxing yet challenging game.

10/10 for me - ballance.org

I just wanted bump this up...

muttonchop · « **Reply #267 on:** September 04, 2005, 12:43:03 pm »

Although the pc very is really shoddy/buggy "sonic adventure dx" plays prettty nicely on a cab. Only uses a few buttons really. Its a shame its so buggy tho =(

SithMaster · « **Reply #268 on:** September 17, 2005, 10:11:58 pm »

I think the commander keen series is worthy-though not sure if freeware-
the first series has three parts that can be downloaded from certain sites

papaschtroumpf · « **Reply #269 on:** September 19, 2005, 02:26:16 am »

one MAJOR bad thing about Trackmania Sunrise is that it requires you to have the CD in the drive. I couldn't find a no-CD patch and it doesn't work with emulated CDROMS like Daemon Tools. Very very inconvenient for a cabinet.

papaschtroumpf · « **Reply #270 on:** September 19, 2005, 07:26:12 pm »

Quote from: Trenchbroom on February 04, 2004, 09:29:14 pm

How is it that this one is not posted yet?

www.warblade.as

You like Galaga? Try this. If you were a European Amiga fan you might remember this one as "Deluxe Galaga" back in the early 1990's. Now it's for the PC and better than ever.

Imagine Galaga with more power ups and a ton of easter eggs and you get the general idea. I highly recommend it.

Warblade is awesome but it has one annoying feature for a cab:

it has the ability to build up profiles, meaning that as you play the game it remembers how well you did and make some things easier (for example after a while you start with double shot and $1000 cash).
Unfortunately profiles *must* be password protected and you can't just start a profile from the command line.
I would prefer to be able able to always automatically use the same profile, since I'm basically the only user on my cab playing that game.
The author of the game has unfortunately resisted that change so far.

SQrL · « **Reply #271 on:** September 20, 2005, 01:18:06 pm »

Quote from: papaschtroumpf on September 19, 2005, 02:26:16 am

one MAJOR bad thing about Trackmania Sunrise is that it requires you to have the CD in the drive. I couldn't find a no-CD patch and it doesn't work with emulated CDROMS like Daemon Tools. Very very inconvenient for a cabinet.

Trackmania Sunrise uses the latest StarForce copy protection.

Zook · « **Reply #272 on:** September 27, 2005, 09:46:53 am »

Quote from: )p( on May 18, 2003, 05:25:59 am

if you like it psychodelic try spheres of chaos a rather funky asteroid clone and ideal on a cab played in the dark with monitor brightness turned way up!

SirPoonga · « **Reply #273 on:** September 28, 2005, 02:46:55 pm »

Turbo Sliders now has AI players.

SirPoonga · « **Reply #274 on:** October 10, 2005, 10:53:37 am »

requires a mouse/tball
http://www.binaryzoo.com/games/mono/index.htm

Check out all the games are binaryzoo.

jimjim · « **Reply #275 on:** October 11, 2005, 11:08:15 pm »

I just downloaded Lexor- It is a horizontal Puzz Loop/Zuma game. You can use a spinner so I would say that it is cab friendly whereas Zuma is not. (Zuma is still a fun game, just not for a cab.)

I also saw the Feeding Frenzy game in the arcades. I think that Ultracade made it. So I tried it on my cab and it works great with a trackball. I think the reason I liked it is because it plays different and there isn't really any other games that are similar to it.

Hamster ball, which has been mentioned before, is awesome. Obviously, it is a Marble Madness inspired game, but I actually like it better.

Midway is coming out with a bundle of arcade classics for the pc this month. It is the arcade classics 2 and 3 that have already come out for the consoles. You get 2 for the price of one. Most are in Mame already, but I don't know how well the racing games like Hydro Thunder and SF Rush run in Mame. I also don't know if they are re mappable for a cab. Also some of the games are supposed to be multi-player. All for 20 bucks, definitely worth a look.

papaschtroumpf · « **Reply #276 on:** October 24, 2005, 11:18:26 am »

A number of games at Reflective Arcade (www.reflexive.com) are suitable for a cab, althogh a lot of them would need a trackball.
Try before you buy though, some of the games are not worth the money.

A new favorite for my kids is "feeding frenzy".

That's also where you'll find platipus, already mentionned in this thread.

EDIT: in fact other software mentionned in this thread is available on this site, even software that I have purchased through other sources (directly from the developer) , like Warblade.

Edit again: All games come with a built in 1 hour trial

Also, there seems to be both a reflexive.net and reflexive.com, I'm not sure what the difference is between the two. It's obviously the same company but I'm not convinced the mix of games is the same between the two.

chris2922 · « **Reply #277 on:** December 13, 2005, 07:18:30 am »

Another World / Out of this World is a great game for DOS or Windows cabs. You just need to find the right version - but they are both out there if you look. I found both this week, though the DOS version is harder to find.

I use the DOS version and it requires NO extra button mapping. Its also one of the best and most atmospheric games ive played - though i admit, nostalgia may be be playing its part there.

Also, DOS users should consider Doom. A bit of remapping in the game and you can play it with an 8 way joystick and 4 buttons. Ive completed it on my cab.

Ive left a floppy drive flush with the front of my cab and use boot discs to load the games as it runs ArcadeOS usually. Simple but effective.

More dos games!!!

DreamWeb · « **Reply #278 on:** February 16, 2006, 11:35:01 pm »

Here's a new one.

It's a remake of the XBOX Live Arcade version of Geometry Wars.

It's called GRID WARS.

Right now it supports dual analog, mouse (trackball), or keyboard (Robotron style action).

I'm going to email him and ask for support for Mouse (trackball) and Keyboard together. Then you could move with the trackball... and fire with a joystick.

From what I understand, it's currently under constant development. Looks promising!

http://www.incitti.com/Blitz/

Dave

SirPoonga · « **Reply #279 on:** February 17, 2006, 01:45:08 pm »

http://phackett.com/rumblebox/
keyboard only controls, so it "should" be cbinet friendly, but I don't think you can remap the controls. It's addictive.


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Author Topic: Links to pretty cool software to play on cabinet (Read 144157 times)

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