California Extreme 2005 Request.

[jelwell]

California Extreme is right around the corner. August 6-7, 2005 in San Jose, California. Sadly I'll be on vacation out of the country.

Could someone please "borrow" Marble Man : Marble Madness 2 and get some roms from it for me?

Thanks.
Joseph Elwell.

[DarkKobold]

LOL, I do hope this is a joke. I was thinking that a Mission Impossible style theft would be awesome. Steal the board, send it to the MAME burners. Return the board to the owner....

Or not. I prefer staying out of jail. 

[rohan]

If you've seen the *.mov file that's floating around on the net, you could probably make a pretty accurate homebrew.  It shows the whole game played all the way through.  I have the file and it is about 13 megs, if anybody wants to host it.  What we really need is someone to take really high quality pics at CA Extreme of the dedicated cabinets(especially the CPO with trackballs) and up them to localarcade.com for fine tuning

[pointdablame]

I'd love to see that video!

[rohan]

Shoot me an e-mail and I'll send it if you can receive 13 meg attachments.  I'd really like to find someone to host it.  The quality kinda implies that safestuff has it already running in MAME

[buks]

rohan - any chance of you supplying the filename ? I've searched google for "marble man" video/mov/movie but came up with nothing.

13meg is a tad large for email so ideally if someone could supply a website for rohan to ftp it to ....

I'm presuming theres nothing illegal with producing a movie of a game ? As long as you don't try and sell it I can't see anyone being bothered.

If the movie is as good as you say then it might be worth sending an email to the guy who wrote the excellent Rolling Madness 3D remake - http://www.lucaelia.com/games.php - I reckon he'd be the man to write a homebrew version.

[buks]

Wayahy ! I think I found the movie ! But maybe not as it doesn't appear to play through all the levels.....

Anyway, just in case you are interested, heres the link (great website worthy of a good lokk around) - http://www.atarigames.com/multimedia.html

[nipsmg]

LOL, I do hope this is a joke. I was thinking that a Mission Impossible style theft would be awesome. Steal the board, send it to the MAME burners. Return the board to the owner....

Or not. I prefer staying out of jail. 

I honestly have had the same thoughts.. exactly..

Mostly involving sleeping gas, flashbangs, portable dumping equipment, etc     

[rohan]

Wayahy ! I think I found the movie ! But maybe not as it doesn't appear to play through all the levels.....

Anyway, just in case you are interested, heres the link (great website worthy of a good lokk around) - http://www.atarigames.com/multimedia.html

That is indeed the same vid I have; I guess my memory was a little off(I could have sworn I had seen a video of the whole game being played, oh well).  Somebody going to CA Extreme really needs to take some straight-on pics of all the Marble Man artwork.  I would go, but I have an appt. on Fri in SoCal for school.

[johnvv]

I was fortunuate enogh to be able to attend CA Extreme 2005 on Saturday.  What a great show!  And lots of really nice people.

There was only (!) one MarbleMan machine there.  It's the one with the three joysticks - I forgot to note the name of the owner.  There was no sideart - only the MarbleMan marquee.  So, the elusive detailed sideart pictures will have to wait for a sighting of one of the other MarbleMan's.  Maybe next year...

[DarkKobold]

Eh, it was actually not a ton of fun. There were 2 joysticks, not 3. The leg levelers were off, so it moved everytime you'd play. It drove me insane. I didn't get a single power up. The speed up with the button was kind of cool. I was more interested in playing multiple rounds of 4 player warlords and as many red Baron games as my thumb could take.

[Kremmit]

I was there on Sat as well.  I thought Marble Man sucked.. ditto Beavis and Butthead.  Maybe these were never released for a reason.  Akka Arrh, on the other hand, was actually pretty fun.  I also really liked Quantum, which I had never had a go at before.

Any of you guys notice the Donkey Kong in the back next to Zeke's Peak had Donkey Kong 2 ROMs in it?  Freaking hard!  I only saw a few guys get past the first level, and nobody there, including the guy who wrote the ROMs, could get to the 3rd board.  He was just testing it out, he says they're not done yet, and he's working on a 4th level that wasn't ready for testing yet.

[johnvv]

Quantum was one of my show favorites as well.  I was surprised at what good condition most of the vector games were in.  Too bad Space Fury wasn't working - I wanted to see that one again. 

Shark was unique, but a pretty lame game.  It would have helped if the the screen orientation could have been properly set. 

While I am not a pinball person, the pinball section was great.  Lots of cool and coveted titles.  The 1947 (?) 'St.Louis' game was bizarre -  flippers that pointed outward from the bottom center and can't be held.  Lucky that design didn't kill pinball in its infancy.

[duffjr]

marble man was just an updated version of the first.  i don't see how much more fun you can make a marble game, but the updates made this better than the first.  i think people realized marble games weren't in style anymore.  if the first joystick weren't lefthanded, it could have been better.  it would be nice to get enough people interested for 2 or 3-player joysticks next time, but i doubt most people went for that game like me.