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    MAME ROW #162 - Spy Hunter

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      VictimRLSH
      last edited by

      You're kidding, right?!? How can anything OTHER than Spy Hunter win...

      Although I dig Star Trek too, but when you realize you only have to look at the radar to play it kinda loses something.

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      • IanDaemonI
        IanDaemon
        last edited by IanDaemon

        Leprechuan looks interesting. Spy Hunter requires analogue control like a spinner to work properly. Sadly my car goes side to side in an instant and I crash immediately.

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          IanDaemon
          last edited by IanDaemon

          OK, so I found out that Leprechuan is a clone of Pot of Gold made in shorter cabinets for children. Both games play identically, but Leprechuan lets you exit/enter the screen anywhere. (Pot of Gold forces you to use openings in the exterior wall.) It seems like it would be a fun high score chasing game, BUT the audio is annoying. There is a constant tone during gameplay.

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          • obsidianspiderO
            obsidianspider
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            This week's winner is Spy Hunter

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              IanDaemon
              last edited by IanDaemon

              Spy Hunter was big in the arcades due to its great controls at the time. I never saw the "sit down" cabinet in real life.

              If Spy Hunter 2 shows up people may run for the hills. That's supposedly one of the worst arcade games ever made. I never saw the sequel in arcades.

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                VictimRLSH @IanDaemon
                last edited by

                @IanDaemon said in MAME ROW #162 - Spy Hunter:

                Spy Hunter was big in the arcades due to its great controls at the time. I never saw the "sit down" cabinet in real life.

                If Spy Hunter 2 shows up people may run for the hills. That's supposedly one of the worst arcade games ever made. I never saw the sequel in arcades.

                Spy Hunter 2 was indeed quite horrible. That was another cabinet I wish I could have kitted, but there was absolutely NOTHING in the way of kits that would fit the custom cabinet.

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                  IanDaemon @VictimRLSH
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                  @VictimRLSH

                  Spy Hunter II
                  Photo: https://www.arcade-museum.com/images/118/118124217275.jpg
                  Info: https://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9743

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                    VictimRLSH @IanDaemon
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                    @IanDaemon Yeah, that's the cabinet, and you can see why there were no kits that would work with it. It DID function on one monitor with a divider, so it would have been possible to remove the divider and replace the wheel panel with a stick panel. IIRC the sound system was crap too. The original Spy Hunter had an awesome soundtrack pumped through a decent sound system.

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                    • obsidianspiderO
                      obsidianspider
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                      MAME ROW #163 is live!

                      📷 @obsidianspider

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                      • IanDaemonI
                        IanDaemon
                        last edited by IanDaemon

                        I got 10,950, but most of my time was trying to get a decent control scheme. (I don't have a spinner/wheel/analog controller.)

                        That score didn't even get me on the high score list.

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                          VictimRLSH @IanDaemon
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                          @IanDaemon There was an infinite play trick to SH2 that involved keeping your car on the lower right side and at a slower speed so you automatically wheel blade everything trying to come up behind you.

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                          • pjftP
                            pjft
                            last edited by

                            I loved Spy Hunter on the Spectrum, but the MAME version's controls are awfully finicky unfortunately. @IanDaemon - what was your control scheme?

                            I'll still go back to the ZX Spectrum version these days, but I'd take other recommendations :)

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                              IanDaemon
                              last edited by

                              @pjft An eight-way joystick with buttons remapped in RA.

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                                pjft @IanDaemon
                                last edited by

                                @IanDaemon got it. From my recollection I think the acceleration and wheel were too sensitive for it to be reliable to control for me, but I'll give it a shot. Mame 2003? FBA?

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                                  IanDaemon @pjft
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                                  @pjft lr-fbneo

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                                    barbudreadmon
                                    last edited by barbudreadmon

                                    Might be worth mentioning it, spy hunter's emulation in FBNeo is "enhanced" : the original cabinet had off-screen notifications, in FBNeo they were turned into on-screen icons, it might improve playability.

                                    FBNeo developer - github - forum

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                                      IanDaemon @barbudreadmon
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                                      @barbudreadmon I did not know/remember that. It's been a looooong time since I played an actual cab. XD

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                                        VictimRLSH
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                                        Oddly enough one of the best ports of Spy Hunter was for PalmOS. You controlled the speed and position of the car with stylus taps and used the bottom buttons for the weapons. Was a very nice version.

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