Pacman DX - 50% off on Steam Sale

[opt2not]

http://store.steampowered.com/app/236450/?snr=1_620_4__46  $4.99

$7.49 for the full DLC version.   

[Generic Eric]

http://store.steampowered.com/app/236450/?snr=1_620_4__46  $4.99

$7.49 for the full DLC version.   

Do you have any opinions on the DLC?  Do you enjoy them?

[opt2not]

I haven't tried the DLC yet, I only have the vanilla version on my 360. But I'm going to pick up this for sure and try 'em out.

[Brian74]

Thanks  Just picked it up.

[Malenko]

Thanks  Just picked it up.

me too, its pretty fun!

[Howard_Casto]

Hey the last time we brought up this topic the game was only available via the windows market place and thus only available on 8.  When did this change?

[Generic Eric]

Hey the last time we brought up this topic the game was only available via the windows market place and thus only available on 8.  When did this change?

Sep 24, 2013

[Howard_Casto]

Well I don't feel that bad then.  That's fairly recent. 

So you are telling me I can put pacman dx on my pacman cab now?  Awesome.

So are all the images just lying loose in a folder like the windows 8 version?  If so I'll get it and mod it into a vertical version. 

[8BitMonk]

Note that it's not meant for a 4:3 monitor so you'll have a small gameplay area with black bars top and bottom. No way I've found to adjust for this.

[Ginsu Victim]

Note that it's not meant for a 4:3 monitor so you'll have a small gameplay area with black bars top and bottom. No way I've found to adjust for this.

Yeah, it's definitely meant for 16:9.

[SegaOutrun]

Im still waiting for Pac Man Museum with will include Pacman Battle Royal. it was supposed to be released last year but its been pushed to February 26th.

[Generic Eric]

Note that it's not meant for a 4:3 monitor so you'll have a small gameplay area with black bars top and bottom. No way I've found to adjust for this.

Yeah, it's definitely meant for 16:9.

How does it do at 16:10?  Black bars?

[Ginsu Victim]

No idea. I haven't tried it on PC (for which I have a 16:10), just Xbox 360.

[Howard_Casto]

Well I'd have to hack it anyway.  I want to put it in my pacman cab, which obviously has a vertical monitor.  Black bars aren't that bad, but playing the game sideways would be, thus why I was asking if the images are just stored in a folder like the last version (easy to hack... take all the text and rotate it 90 degrees). 

[Generic Eric]

Well I'd have to hack it anyway.  I want to put it in my pacman cab, which obviously has a vertical monitor.  Black bars aren't that bad, but playing the game sideways would be, thus why I was asking if the images are just stored in a folder like the last version (easy to hack... take all the text and rotate it 90 degrees).

There is a demo.  Shouldn't the demo have the same file structure?

[Howard_Casto]

I missed that thanks. 

Man steam really needs to get out of it's emo phase on it's website... it's laid out poorly so I overlook things.  Just add it to my list of many complaints about steam.  *sigh*

[Howard_Casto]

I downloaded the demo.  Yup the graphics are in plain old png format.  The music is in wav/ogg as well.

A person would have to make some compromises as the text is in the form of sprite sheets in most cases...

so:  TEXT LIKE THIS

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Of course the game is 100% skinnable, so hacking the skin files would be a better route.  I'm not sure if I'm up for another massive project though.

[Generic Eric]

I got this 5 minutes before I left the house.  Consequently, I forgot my boots, and part of my lunch.

I downloaded the demo.  Yup the graphics are in plain old png format.  The music is in wav/ogg as well.


Of course the game is 100% skinnable, so hacking the skin files would be a better route.  I'm not sure if I'm up for another massive project though.

You could purchase it as a gift at the current discount and access it at a later date.  Or gift it to someone else.

[Howard_Casto]

Heh, Pacman doesn't exactly top the charts.  I'll just buy it when I get around to it. 

I played around with the demo just to see how forgiving the game is.

The good news:

The game doesn't give a rat's a**** about the png dimensions.  I just rotated one of them for the heck of it and although the sprites were all messed up (sprite sheet locations changed) it rendered everything just fine, didn't complain about the png being a different aspect ratio, ect...

The game seems to be quite forgiving about monitor aspect/resolution as well.  I rotated my desktop, set the resolution to 4:3, ect.... it still loaded just fine in all respects.  Of course it doesn't support rotation, but if you wanted to play it on a vertical cab as-is, with a teeny tiny screen in the middle, it would work. 

The bad news:

*sigh*  The games controls are hard-coded.  This is true for both the keyboard and joystick.  This would be especially problematic if I were to hack the pngs to make a vertical mode.  Think about it, then up would be left,  and ect.... 

So yeah, it's workable, but it would be a project.  If anyone is interested, I'll help out, but otherwise it's a pass for me atm.

[Le Chuck]

What kind of help Howard? I'm down for Png creation if you tell me specs.

[Howard_Casto]

Well unless someone can figure out the skin format (I'm just brunt out on reverse-engineering atm).  It would mostly consist of opening up each individual sprite sheet, finding the sprites that would look sideways on a rotated monitor, rotate those sprites 90 degrees and then resize them so they fit in the same area. 

I don't know if you have the game yet, but browse to the geui\pc folder and look at the common_add.png.

See those 100 or so tiles?  They all have to be resized and rotated.  The same goes for all the other graphics in the image, and that's just the title screen!

[Le Chuck]

Well unless someone can figure out the skin format (I'm just brunt out on reverse-engineering atm).  It would mostly consist of opening up each individual sprite sheet, finding the sprites that would look sideways on a rotated monitor, rotate those sprites 90 degrees and then resize them so they fit in the same area. 

I don't know if you have the game yet, but browse to the geui\pc folder and look at the common_add.png.

See those 100 or so tiles?  They all have to be resized and rotated.  The same goes for all the other graphics in the image, and that's just the title screen!

I'll get it dl'd here eventually and take a look at it - sounds like a PITA tho