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    MAME ROW #174 - Q*bert

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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

                Screen Shot 2020-10-28 at 9.10.32 AM.png

                qf.jpg

                qr.jpg

                📷 @obsidianspider

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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
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                                @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
                                  last edited by

                                  @iandaemon Should be ok now.

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                                  • obsidianspiderO
                                    obsidianspider
                                    last edited by

                                    MAME ROW #175 is now live!

                                    📷 @obsidianspider

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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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                                      • IanDaemonI
                                        IanDaemon @IanDaemon
                                        last edited by IanDaemon

                                        @iandaemon I just had an idea for a modification to my control panel that would allow me to use the same four-way joystick for this and Pac-Man/Donkey Kong without opening up the machine OR any software changes.

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                                        • IanDaemonI
                                          IanDaemon @IanDaemon
                                          last edited by IanDaemon

                                          So that I don't have to stand at a 45 degree angle to play Q*bert, I thought about making a new control panel that would allow me to lift up on the stick, rotate it, and set it back down without changing wiring or settings. Here's my idea for a two layer CP , what do you think?
                                          (this is looking from below)
                                          [op deleted image]

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                                          • IanDaemonI
                                            IanDaemon @IanDaemon
                                            last edited by IanDaemon

                                            @iandaemon On second thought I really need two squares and not two pentagons/pentagrams/whatever shape that is. I wouldn't get a true 45 degree angle this way.

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