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Title: PC games on an arcade machine ? (NFL BLITZ!)
Post by: JoeB on February 24, 2004, 11:15:16 pm: I was cleaning out the basement, when I found the original PC version of NFL blitz.

I right away installed in on my arcade machine, and was surprised to see that using DirectX video acceleration, one can select arcade resolutions on the ArcadeVGA!

So I selected 368x240 and proceeded to play. Yes, the text was a tad garbled, but the actual game play was smooth as butter and looked PERFECT!

NFL Blitz allows you to remap the control keys (to be the same as the assigned joystick buttons!) but has anyone figured out:

- How to select "Y" when you press ESC to exit the game?
- How to start the game without the launcher (i.e. direct preset audio/video) ??

The speed and perfection is so much better than the MAME version!

Any other PC arcade ports worth their salt that I should try out?
Title: Re:PC games on an arcade machine ? (NFL BLITZ!)
Post by: GGKoul on February 25, 2004, 12:20:55 am: Virtua Tennis!
Title: Re:PC games on an arcade machine ? (NFL BLITZ!)
Post by: Brad Lee on February 25, 2004, 03:41:54 pm: Ive been playing Vice City(more specifically, Multi Theft Auto:VC) on mine. I'm i nthe planning part of putting together a CP with a stick and a trackball for it, so in the meantime Im playing on a ps2 dualshock
Title: Re:PC games on an arcade machine ? (NFL BLITZ!)
Post by: walls83 on February 25, 2004, 10:04:08 pm: I got Virutal Tennis, Viruta Fighter 1-2, and a couple others

DID you know NFL BLITZ is mamed..! And it looks smooth on my cab. BLITZ, BLITZ 99 and BLITZ 2000 I believe
Title: Re:PC games on an arcade machine ? (NFL BLITZ!)
Post by: TalkingOctopus on February 25, 2004, 10:09:29 pm: http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=3;action=display;threadid=7479 (http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=3;action=display;threadid=7479)

Check out this thread for tons of great games for a cab that are PC only.
Title: Re:PC games on an arcade machine ? (NFL BLITZ!)
Post by: SirPoonga on February 25, 2004, 11:16:51 pm: Quote from: walls83 on February 25, 2004, 10:04:08 pm
DID you know NFL BLITZ is mamed..! And it looks smooth on my cab. BLITZ, BLITZ 99 and BLITZ 2000 I believe

If you have a fast computer. Otherwise if you are like me and have a PIII 500 the PC port is just as good :)
Title: Re:PC games on an arcade machine ? (NFL BLITZ!)
Post by: dommer on February 26, 2004, 02:22:28 pm: Wow, great minds think alike. I installed Virtua Tennis (best 4p game of all time), but it will only let me map 1 player to the keyboard. Other players it forces you to choose a gamepad, and if you have no gamepad hooked up, it grays out the 2p, 3p, and 4p options. Has anyone found a way to map all 4 to keyboard inputs?
Title: Re:PC games on an arcade machine ? (NFL BLITZ!)
Post by: TalkingOctopus on February 26, 2004, 03:47:44 pm: Quote from: dommer on February 26, 2004, 02:22:28 pm
Wow, great minds think alike. I installed Virtua Tennis (best 4p game of all time), but it will only let me map 1 player to the keyboard. Other players it forces you to choose a gamepad, and if you have no gamepad hooked up, it grays out the 2p, 3p, and 4p options. Has anyone found a way to map all 4 to keyboard inputs?

Someone created a program that maps keyboard keys to joystick buttons. Using this, you can set the keys for all 4 players. Get it here:

http://allroy.bigdrillcar.com/mame/zips/PPortJoyfix.zip (http://allroy.bigdrillcar.com/mame/zips/PPortJoyfix.zip)
Title: Re:PC games on an arcade machine ? (NFL BLITZ!)
Post by: walls83 on February 26, 2004, 04:11:14 pm: Holy Cow TalkingOC. Ive been looking for this for like 2 months. Thanks so much
Title: Re:PC games on an arcade machine ? (NFL BLITZ!)
Post by: TalkingOctopus on February 29, 2004, 07:09:25 pm: I heard that the version of PPJoyKey that I previously posted did not work with Virtua Tennis.

I think that this one will.

http://allroy.bigdrillcar.com/mame/zips/PPJoyKey.zip (http://allroy.bigdrillcar.com/mame/zips/PPJoyKey.zip)

Sorry about that confusion.
Title: Re:PC games on an arcade machine ? (NFL BLITZ!)
Post by: Scoobie on October 02, 2004, 12:15:08 am: How does this work exactly? I loaded the PPJoyKey program and chaged/saved the ini file. What do I do next? Where do I put the ini file I created with PPJoyKey?

Thanks for any help on this!
Title: Re:PC games on an arcade machine ? (NFL BLITZ!)
Post by: Gunstar Hero on October 02, 2004, 05:10:35 am: I gotta know...

What kinda machine you have that runs Blitz nice and smooth?

It's slower than hell on my Athlon XP 2000.
Title: Re:PC games on an arcade machine ? (NFL BLITZ!)
Post by: SirPoonga on October 02, 2004, 11:14:37 am: Quote from: Gunstar Hero on October 02, 2004, 05:10:35 am
I gotta know...

What kinda machine you have that runs Blitz nice and smooth?

It's slower than hell on my Athlon XP 2000.

See my above reply.
Title: Re:PC games on an arcade machine ? (NFL BLITZ!)
Post by: Gunstar Hero on October 02, 2004, 01:53:44 pm: I saw it. Fast. BUT HOW FAST!?! What kind of video? How much RAM? What OS? What color is the case!!

Dammnit man, I need specifics!! =)

Sure, my PC CD version of Blitz 2000 runs like a dream, but I've been DYING to have Blitz run in MAME.

LIGHTS OUT BABY!!
Title: Re:PC games on an arcade machine ? (NFL BLITZ!)
Post by: the3eyedblindman on October 02, 2004, 04:53:22 pm: ive been looking on ebay for PC NFL BLITZ 2000 for the past 3 months and its never there! I really want it! If someone somehow could get me a copy of that game, PM me.
Title: Re:PC games on an arcade machine ? (NFL BLITZ!)
Post by: SirPoonga on October 02, 2004, 11:15:17 pm: Quote from: Gunstar Hero on October 02, 2004, 01:53:44 pm
I saw it. Fast. BUT HOW FAST!?! What kind of video? How much RAM? What OS? What color is the case!!

Dammnit man, I need specifics!! =)

Sure, my PC CD version of Blitz 2000 runs like a dream, but I've been DYING to have Blitz run in MAME.

LIGHTS OUT BABY!!

Oh, you are talking about blitz in mame. I run the PC version, runs just like the arcade version.

I have a PIII 500 with 256megs of ram running an ATI128.