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Nibbler plays WAY too fast! Any ideas?
RayB:
I need to find the one without music, cuz that music is the WORST. Nasty.
That speed is normal. You're meant to play with a 4-way and really think ahead on your moves.
Ummon:
Tips? It's called gamefaqs. But, yeah, tight maneuvering can be tricky, I bet even with a good 4-way stick. Nibbler's one of those interesting games where there are no baddies. Anteater is kinda like this, but there are baddies.
Haze:
--- Quote from: isucamper on September 26, 2009, 10:39:20 am ---nibbler does get pretty fast pretty quick. you're running in mame? unless you have throttle turned off, it's probably ok. what kind of joystick are you using? that could be a more limiting factor. the original cab used a leaf switch joystick and it can be hard to control with anything else (though it plays pretty well with my U360). you aren't trying to play it with an 8-way stick are you?
i did have a question about nibbler in MAME though. I recently watched Tim McVey's world record attempt, and I asked him why there wasn't any music, since on my MAME cab, there's some simple music in the levels. He said that there is no music in the game, only in the MAME version. This didn't make any sense to me. The MAME programmers wouldn't put music in where it doesn't belong. However, if there is anyone that would know about how Nibbler is supposed to play, it would be Tim.
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Some versions of the PCB shipped with one of the rom sockets empty, when that socket is empty no music plays (the game still attempts to play the music, but reads 00 data for the music and thus doesn't make any sound)
why? I don't know. Cost cutting maybe? There doesn't seem to be any logic behind it, but enough have been seen with that rom missing to know that it sometimes must have shipped without it.
FrizzleFried:
--- Quote from: javeryh on September 26, 2009, 10:56:27 am ---Frizzle - what is your score like after the first 3 boards? Do you just get through 20 levels when you play?
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I want to say round 1 I can get 920... round two 3000 (i have these patterns down)... round 3 is about 5,900=6,000 or so.... I think I 've made it to round 10 or so. Eventually the music changes and it gets FAST... REAL FAST... I've gotten through 2 mazes of that stage and on to the 3rd where I died. I checked last night and I am at 74K high score...it took me forever to even get 50,000 and make it to the top of the "stock" hs board.
Grasshopper:
--- Quote from: Ginsu Victim on September 26, 2009, 12:06:39 pm ---And HELL YEAH....RASTAN! That was my favorite game to go down to the local convenience store and play. My brother and I played the ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- out of it!
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One of my favourites too. I particularly loved the background music.
I remember playing a version of Rastan that had a non-standard palette. The colours were generally darker and cooler looking than the standard game. Unfortunately, AFAIK it's not emulated in MAME.