MAME ROW #150 - 1942

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? :)

quicksilver

@AndersHP I didn't even realize it was a song. Just kept wondering what the annoying chirping sound was. Hahaha

IanDaemon

Meh. Now I lost sound. (grrr)

mitu

After a lot of practice - I don't play a lot of shmups - I got a lucky break and reached the Marshall Islands. Previous hiscore was the 3rd (I used 1 save state for #2, so that doesn't count).

quicksilver

@mitu wow for not playing shumps that's really good! My top scores have been trash so far so I haven't had anything worth posting yet.

IanDaemon

I'd love to devote more time in the evenings to chase these high scores. Nice work!

mitu

I tried to improve the score, but didn't get further than stage 5, this time with 154490 as hiscore.