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Title: What games actually use caps/num/scroll lock lights?
Post by: AlanS17 on July 26, 2005, 11:30:42 pm: I'm trying to decide if I should wire up my new machine for the caps/num/scroll lock lights. Right now I'm leaning towards "no", but I've never used them in a machine before have considered giving them a shot. Does anybody have a list of games?

This is for a vertical cocktail to play mostly classic games.
Title: Re: What games actually use caps/num/scroll lock lights?
Post by: SirPeale on July 27, 2005, 06:35:38 am: Hm...I know Pac Man and a lot of the Midway games use them.

APB uses one for the brake light, IIRC.
Title: Re: What games actually use caps/num/scroll lock lights?
Post by: AlanS17 on July 27, 2005, 08:50:47 am: How are they used? Drop in a coin and the start button lights up?
Title: Re: What games actually use caps/num/scroll lock lights?
Post by: Tiger-Heli on July 27, 2005, 08:55:20 am: Quote from: Peale on July 27, 2005, 06:35:38 am
Hm...I know Pac Man and a lot of the Midway games use them.

APB uses one for the brake light, IIRC.
Nope, I think the latest builds took them out of PacMan. Not sure about APB.

Most of the early Atari stuff has them. Asteroid, bzone, probably centiped, milliped, redbaron, digdug, gravitar.

Scroll lock - OutRun uses it for the brake. Ajax uses it for the special weapon. Spy Hunter SHOULD use it for the weapons van, but doesn't.

Personally, if you were leaning towards not having them, I would stay with that impulse. I think they are cool, but for the few games that use them, I wouldn't worry too much about adding them again.

REPLY #3 -

In MAME, generally Num Lock flashes when 1 credit is inserted (simulates the flashing 1P start volcano lights on early Atari games), NumLock and Scroll Lock flash when 2 credits are inserted (simulates the 2p start volcano buttons.
Title: Re: What games actually use caps/num/scroll lock lights?
Post by: Buddabing on July 27, 2005, 09:13:17 am: Quote from: Tiger-Heli on July 27, 2005, 08:55:20 am
Quote from: Peale on July 27, 2005, 06:35:38 am
Hm...I know Pac Man and a lot of the Midway games use them.

APB uses one for the brake light, IIRC.
Nope, I think the latest builds took them out of PacMan.
Title: Re: What games actually use caps/num/scroll lock lights?
Post by: SirPoonga on July 27, 2005, 09:44:27 am: Pretty much every classic atari game, asteroids, dig dug, lunar lander, tempest, etc...
Title: Re: What games actually use caps/num/scroll lock lights?
Post by: JoyMonkey on July 27, 2005, 09:55:25 am: I have the NUM and CAPS LEDs in my coin door. They're set to blink in sequence for everygame when a token is deposited, and stay lit once a start button has been pressed.
I also have Scroll Lock controlling coin lockouts on my coin mechs, and set it to only light when a game has started, to stop my wife whining when she puts in a token in the frontend and nothing happens; now if you put a token in when the frontend is running it comes out the coin-return.
I was using Scroll Lock to control a couple of cold cathode lights behind my control panels, but it wasn't as nice as I had hoped so I thought I'd try the coin-lockouts and they work great!