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"Official" list for PC Games On Cab
Space Fractal:
--- Quote from: pmc on January 06, 2009, 12:01:42 am ---I like the idea of moving the relatively static content to the wiki. I'll help populate the data.
Personally, I'm most interested in freeware and indy development. There's so much great and creative arcade stuff out there, I don't spend alot of time looking at commercial efforts. The retro stuff is easier to program now, developers are sensitive to the style, and they don't feel compelled to add bling to compete with other commercial offerings. And we can freely download, enjoy, and share the free stuff. :)
-pmc
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I Agree. Many Indy games is really arcade cab friendly, smaller, and typical more arcade fell than these commercial games. I also like Sega games, because many of these is typical direct port of arcade games which is good point here.
I also think Lego Starwars I and II, Lego Batman and Lego Indiana Jones should been added, even I really not have played them yet, but many have installed these to arcade cabs. There might been some config problem with some games, but might been fixable. yes these are commerciel again, but many like them and I have even remember a user have designed are cab for these games alone, if I also remember correct? Howover I did not play much of these, but my fault.
ahofle:
My favorites not already mentioned:
Mechatron: (dual joys) http://norrish.force9.co.uk/robotron/
Typhoon 2001: (spinner) http://typhoon.kuto.de/shots.html
Platypus: (trackball or joy) http://www.popcap.com/games/platypus
Feeding Frenzy: (trackball) http://www.popcap.com/games/feedingfrenzy (this one I've actually seen in an arcade in an ultracade cab)
pmc:
--- Quote from: FrontyDev on January 03, 2009, 09:45:51 pm ---Torus Trooper is a fast-paced scrolling shooter reminiscent to Tempest. It's keyboard only (hardcoded). It will most likely require you to use an utility like Xpadder or Joy2Key to adapt it to your setup but it's still worth the trouble.
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You shouldn't need to dork with a utility. The default keys are all MAME defaults. It works fine on my cabinet with no modification whatsover. Here's the keys:
--- Code: ----- Movement Arrow / Num / [WASD] / Joystick
Hold an up key to increase speed.
-- Shot [Z][L-Ctrl][.] / Trigger 1, 4, 5, 8
Hold a shot key to open automatic fire.
-- Charge shot [X][L-Alt][L-Shift][/] / Trigger 2, 3, 6, 7
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-pmc
pmc:
--- Quote from: Space Fractal on January 06, 2009, 06:28:51 pm ---
--- Quote from: pmc on January 06, 2009, 12:01:42 am ---I like the idea of moving the relatively static content to the wiki. I'll help populate the data.
Personally, I'm most interested in freeware and indy development. There's so much great and creative arcade stuff out there, I don't spend alot of time looking at commercial efforts. The retro stuff is easier to program now, developers are sensitive to the style, and they don't feel compelled to add bling to compete with other commercial offerings. And we can freely download, enjoy, and share the free stuff. :)
-pmc
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I Agree. Many Indy games is really arcade cab friendly, smaller, and typical more arcade fell than these commercial games. I also like Sega games, because many of these is typical direct port of arcade games which is good point here.
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I just checked the wiki and there's already a page for cabinet friendly indy titles:
http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/Indie_Games
I'll make sure to enter the cabinet friendly games that I've been posting in this forum to the wiki.
-pmc
TheManuel:
A lot of progress along the lines of what you are doing in this thread was made on this other one but it never got stickied.
You might want to go through it and lift some games from there.
Nice thread.