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| isucamper:
--- Quote from: drventure on August 01, 2009, 09:49:14 pm ---I do like the High scores whiteboard idea. Is that the same idea behind the "Highscores" mod I've seen mentioned in threads from time to time? It'd be cool if that ability was just part of the cab (or then again, maybe not, a little "analog" mixed with the digital wouldn't necessarily be bad :) --- End quote --- wait... you guys don't have MAME saving your high scores? |
| RyoriNoTetsujin:
--- Quote from: isucamper on August 02, 2009, 04:44:46 pm ---wait... you guys don't have MAME saving your high scores? --- End quote --- No, I don't... and while I realize I could take the time to learn how to "roll my own" MAME, I'm not going to bother with it. I like the (decidedly analog) white board idea. There's a certain "taunting" factor to it, that I know will definitely needle certain individuals in my social circle. And I already have the white board. ;D |
| isucamper:
It is honestly really easy (might take you... I'd say... 2 hours to figure out from scratch). Just get the MAME source code from here http://mamedev.org/oldrel.html. Get the high score / no nag patch from here (be sure it matches the version of your source) http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=64298.0 Get Headkaze's MAME compiler from here: http://www.headsoft.com.au/index.php?category=mame&page=mc64 Just point the paths in the compiler to the right spots, apply the patch (don't bother with the compile options), and compile. High score saves add a ton of playability to the cab. I have 2 friends who, when I have said Rock Band parties, are telling us to turn the music down so they can hear the cab. We get into brutal high score competitions. Vicious. We kind of get obsessive compulsive about who's initials are at the top. We really got going on Juno First after a high score competition on this board got us introduced to it. In my opinion, this is a must have for a MAME cab. I might not have even bothered with building it if there wasn't a way to support this. |
| z:
I vote for the dry erase board in the room, cool brag board and it makes people think of games they might not have remembered otherwise. We add the date when the score was set in my rec room, everyone likes getting a high score but others will absolutely eat up breaking the track & field long jump record or centipede high score that has stood for 17 months. |
| Namco:
--- Quote from: Beretta on August 01, 2009, 08:50:12 pm ---it's natural we all get attached to objects, and not just from our child hood.. --- End quote --- I'm wondering how the young crowd can possibly be interested in arcade games? In the 80's as a kid or maybe young adult, you'd be at home watching boring shows on a blurry 27" TV with rabbit ears and a moderate amount of static on the screen. Maybe listening to Pat Benitar or Huey Lewis on your tape deck before the batteries die and you go out to play with your friends. Maybe all you have is a black and white TV and an Atari 2600 that you play on the old shag carpet in the room with the wood paneling. So if you need an entertainment fix you jump on your bike and ride over to the arcade and you're in heaven. A dark room lit mainly by a dozen or more arcade games with 100x more fidelity than what you have at home. The room full of life with the incredible mix of sound that can only come from an 80's arcade. Hey look in the corner, a new game! The perfect monitor, clear glass, new sideart, the smell of freshly painted wood are all before you. You drop a quarter into the shiny new coin mech and hear your quarter plunk down onto a thick layer of older quarters. You start playing this game with new gameplay elements that you've never seen in any other game before. The sound effects you're hearing the game generate are sounds that have never been heard before they sound so cool, so futuristic! ... The whole experience of newness and electronic bliss is something that has tied a lot of us to this hobby. Nowadays that experience just does not exist anymore. Strip all that ambiance away from the game of Robotron and what do you have? To a kid it's a REALLY hard version of Geometry Wars with bad graphics. I wonder how one of these kids who say they are into the old arcade games would describe them? "I saw this dusty old wooden cabinet plugged in at the back room of the indoor swap meet and it smelled kind of moldy and was made 7 years before I was born, and the game inside of it had the high scores burned into the screen it was so old, my game only lasted 2 minutes before I died but it was fun I guess." :lol |
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