MAME ROW #150 - 1942

Lyle_JP

My favorite clone of 1942 is the Williams board (1942w.zip). Most 1942 machines were upgrade kits provided by Romstar. Williams had the license for dedicated 1942 machines. The differences in the Williams version are better level descriptions, and instead of having three "rolls" represented by R's (which is wrong) you get three loops represented by three L's (which is correct).

1942w.zip plays in Final Burn Neo.

All that said, I'm actually voting for Contra, Konami's finest run and gun. 1942 is the very worst of the 19xx games. It's like an early test version of 1943, which actually plays like a completed game.

langest

Hah, my smile got wider and wider while scrolling, seeing every next game and thinking of the odds of this happening. I had to go back to the top to double check that the selection was random and not hand picked.

IanDaemon

Cadillacs and Dinosaurs vs Battle Toads vs Metal Slug? Oof, tough choice. BUT...someone's gotta win. The arcade version of Battletoads it is!

And I'm only going to vote once! (which I normally do except for the one time I found out that I could vote more than once on https://www.strawpoll.me.)

mitu

@langest Quoting @obsidianspider

MAME ROW #150 is now live. Options may or may not have been selected randomly…

AndersHP

@mitu My guess is the latter :)

langest

@mitu

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ByteThis

Awesome selection of games this time. Although I love all these games..Metal Slug has my vote !

VictimRLSH

I went with Contra on this, but it wasn't an easy choice... Great lineup this time!

AndersHP

I vote for the second-highest game(s) get carried over to the next round!

IanDaemon

@AndersHP I agree, although I'm going to play the games I like regardless of voting outcome.

obsidianspider

The winner is 1942

IanDaemon

Personally I dig Strikers 1945 III by Psikyo. 1942 by Capcom is just so slow in comparison. I know they're different franchises made at different times for different audiences, but I still find 1942 slow. (Since we're putting Arcade and MAME in the same sentence...I'd even recommend Capcom's 1944: The Loop Master which Arcade1Up is bringing back into the limelight.)

1942 is a more classic game though and fondly remembered (even though it does sound shrill).

GtBFilms

@obsidianspider excellent game - my friend Ian Cullen has the actual board and is ranked 8th in the world according to TwinGalaxies!

https://www.twingalaxies.com/game/1942/arcade/points-single-player-only/

You'll be pleased to hear that none of his skills have transferred to me though, I'm still absolutely rubbish at 1942!

I'll give it a try though.

VictimRLSH

@GtBFilms I never could get good at 1942 either, but can clear 1943 on one play.

AndersHP

Awesome!
@obsidianspider please remember to carry over some of these great games to other ROW's.

Now for some shmup action!
I always like to hear if people run these in mame2003 or fbalpha?

Brigane

@AndersHP are there any noticeable difference between the two emulators with this particular game?

mitu

@AndersHP said in MAME ROW #150 - 1942:

I always like to hear if people run these in mame2003 or fbalpha?

I've run it through fbneo. Seems to work fine.

sirhenrythe5th

I guess i will run on any MAME-Version or FBAlpha/-Neo as it is from the early 80s and therefore does not need much performance.

Only issue that i have with AdvanceMame is the lack of highsocre-saving.
AdvanceMame only supports "Revision A", which seems to be not supoorted by highscore.dat.

IanDaemon

@AndersHP I try LR-MAME versions first , FBA/NEO second, and AdvMAME third. But that's just me.

AndersHP

@Brigane I don't know, I'm using lr-fbneo also.

What's the deal with the whistle-tune in the beginning of this game?
Is it some kind of WW2 reference, that I don't get? :)