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    MAME ROW #174 - Q*bert

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    • retropieuser555R
      retropieuser555 @sirhenrythe5th
      last edited by

      @sirhenrythe5th yeah sorry I mean the practical basis of needing a light gun setup of some type (wiimote/dolphin bar, sinden lightgun etc). It's just not the same using the analogue stick as a crosshair, you know? :-)

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      • IanDaemonI
        IanDaemon
        last edited by IanDaemon

        Q*bert is a great game, but harder to play thanks to its "45° rotated" joystick. It also has the zeitgeist/popular culture impact that "classic" games have.

        (My vote goes to Q*bert, an old school "bad boy" with those un-translated death remarks.)

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        • IanDaemonI
          IanDaemon
          last edited by IanDaemon

          Subroc-3D (1982) reminds me A LOT of Viper (1988) which turns out to be an excellent trackball game in MAME 2003. Here's some YouTube video I found of Viper.

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          • IanDaemonI
            IanDaemon
            last edited by IanDaemon

            Viper is really fun once you get the analog sensitivity settings adjusted. It's cool that it has a ton of control options in the ROM itself. I've read that the Viper arcade cabinet was criticized for complicated controls, but in MAME 2003 you can set it up to play with one trackball and one button (technically one trackball and two buttons).

            In retrospect I guess "Crazy Ali" could be racially insensitive.

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            • Impman66I
              Impman66
              last edited by Impman66

              Toughie this time, torn between Q**Bert in the end. Mainly due to it's originality, nobody had seen that type of game before, whereas Op Wolf, despite it's great graphics was (albeit with a light-gun - I mean a light gun!!) just another shoot 'em up.
              So again I went old school and voted for Q*Bert.

              Weird, when I posted the "" was lost between the Q and B, and it turned the text into italics. The only way round it was to put in two ""'s Oh its done it again! Any ideas??

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              • IanDaemonI
                IanDaemon
                last edited by IanDaemon

                @Impman66 To italicize Q*bert use *Q\*bert*. Essentially you use the backslash to escape the asterisk in the name.

                In the example above I'm using the backtick " ` " (often on the keyboard next to the "1") around the characters to make them visible and highlighted inline without being translated. To put things in a multiple-line code block you can use:

                ` ` `
                Q * b e r t
                ` ` ` 
                

                Or you can use a blockquote with a single greater-than sign ">" preceding each line.

                >Q*bert and then some more Q*bert and then some
                >more Q*bert

                Here's some info: https://commonmark.org/help/

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                • Impman66I
                  Impman66 @IanDaemon
                  last edited by

                  @IanDaemon Many thanks for that, didn't notice any issues until after I posted. Strange though how you cant put the * in-between a letter without making it change the format of the font.

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                  • IanDaemonI
                    IanDaemon @Impman66
                    last edited by IanDaemon

                    @Impman66 You can by escaping it; it's just that the asterisk is a reserved character.

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                    • obsidianspiderO
                      obsidianspider
                      last edited by obsidianspider

                      This week's winner is Q*bert

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                      • IanDaemonI
                        IanDaemon
                        last edited by IanDaemon

                        I got 1175 with a four-way "+" joystick (instead of "x"), but I need to do something about these controls. I wonder what I can do besides turning my head/thoughts?

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                        • IanDaemonI
                          IanDaemon
                          last edited by IanDaemon

                          I was able to improve it slightly (2700), but playing with a "+" joystick isn't ideal. (I'm sure this can be beaten easily. I only made it to the second level on my custom MAME cocktail cabinet.)

                          qbert-201104-143827.png

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                          • IanDaemonI
                            IanDaemon
                            last edited by IanDaemon

                            I'm gonna go get my six inch tall Q*bert cabinet with its tiny "x" joystick.

                            Surprisingly, I didn't do much better (3875).

                            qbert.jpg

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                            • IanDaemonI
                              IanDaemon
                              last edited by IanDaemon

                              I managed to slightly improve (4,950) on my MAME2003 cocktail cabinet (with a four-way joystick) by standing at 45 degrees and turning my head. (It's odd that the high score screen lists the scores "top to bottom" and not "left column-right column", but...oh well.)
                              [op deleted image]

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                              • IanDaemonI
                                IanDaemon @IanDaemon
                                last edited by

                                It's nice than the default scores are so low.

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                                • IanDaemonI
                                  IanDaemon @IanDaemon
                                  last edited by IanDaemon

                                  5350

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                                  • IanDaemonI
                                    IanDaemon
                                    last edited by IanDaemon

                                    7750

                                    qbert-201108-125036.png

                                    ( @BuZz Curious, I can no longer upload pics. Is something wrong on my end? - Cool, it works now.)

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                                    • BuZzB
                                      BuZz administrators @IanDaemon
                                      last edited by

                                      @iandaemon No - I will sort it (compatibility issue with nodejs v14) - It's fixed but a dependency needs to be updated but ill just downgrade for now.

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                                      • BuZzB
                                        BuZz administrators @IanDaemon
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                                        @iandaemon Should be ok now.

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                                        • obsidianspiderO
                                          obsidianspider
                                          last edited by

                                          MAME ROW #175 is now live!

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                                          • IanDaemonI
                                            IanDaemon
                                            last edited by IanDaemon

                                            I was able to improve slightly with an "plus" arcade stick.

                                            qbert-201121-095551.png

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