Galaga History ....

[ratzz]

Is Galaga 'fast shoot' a legitimate game, or is it a hacked? Like playing Defender with slow mutants.

Was it ever an arcade game? I can double (quadruple) my score on fast shoot Galaga, but am I kidding myself!

The dilemma is killing me!

[RayB]

It was a "mod chip" hack sold to operators as a way to change and enhance the game. Just like how there were mod chips to change the speed of pacman, etc...  Not with Midway's permission.

[ratzz]

Thanks Ray, I never knew that ...

So I guess my scores are kind of legit --- what year was this - how long after Galaga's main release?

[CrazyKongFan]

It sort of became legit though, as the 20th anniversary reunion game has fast shoot as an option in the machine setup (as well as speeding up ms pac). There's also a sequence you can do to toggle it after inserting a quarter (left right left right up up up fire). If it's rapid fire, it'll make it normal, and vice versa. This also toggles slow/fast for Ms Pac-man (and the Pac-man easter egg, which can be selected by doing up up up down down down left right left right left)

[TheShanMan]

Glad you asked this, and glad to hear Ray's response. I was at the Ground Kontrol classic arcade in Portland today (awesome arcade btw), and played a pac man cocktail that was fast. When I got home, I went into the dip switch settings in mame to see if there was such a setting (and no, there isn't), so I was wondering what was up with that.

I'm interested to see (maybe someone knows off hand) if there are clones of pac man (or galaga) that have these hacks.

[kayoteq]

Mame has the Pac speedup under the Cheats setup. you have to have a cheats.dat file if you don't already. 
Some clones have pac-speedup integrated; sometimes it's a button you have to push.


I'm not much of a fan of the anniversary edition for the rapid fire thing, that and the continue? at the end of the game.
It's all a matter of personal preference, but that's part of the fun, to me, to hit the button rapidly..