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MAME ROW #174 - Q*bert

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    IanDaemon
    last edited by IanDaemon 26 Oct 2020, 16:49

    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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      Impman66
      last edited by Impman66 27 Oct 2020, 11:17

      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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        IanDaemon
        last edited by IanDaemon 27 Oct 2020, 18:29

        @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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          Impman66 @IanDaemon
          last edited by 28 Oct 2020, 12:19

          @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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            IanDaemon @Impman66
            last edited by IanDaemon 28 Oct 2020, 12:52

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

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              obsidianspider
              last edited by obsidianspider 28 Oct 2020, 13:15

              This week's winner is Q*bert

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

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                IanDaemon
                last edited by IanDaemon 11 May 2020, 18:31 4 Nov 2020, 19:28

                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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                  IanDaemon
                  last edited by IanDaemon 11 May 2020, 18:36 4 Nov 2020, 19:47

                  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.)

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                    IanDaemon
                    last edited by IanDaemon 11 Aug 2020, 18:13 4 Nov 2020, 19:50

                    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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                      IanDaemon
                      last edited by IanDaemon 7 Nov 2020, 16:48

                      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.)
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                        IanDaemon @IanDaemon
                        last edited by 7 Nov 2020, 18:21

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

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                          IanDaemon @IanDaemon
                          last edited by IanDaemon 11 Aug 2020, 18:05 8 Nov 2020, 01:11

                          5350

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                            IanDaemon
                            last edited by IanDaemon 11 Aug 2020, 18:45 8 Nov 2020, 18:05

                            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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                              BuZz administrators @IanDaemon
                              last edited by 8 Nov 2020, 18:26

                              @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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                                BuZz administrators @IanDaemon
                                last edited by 8 Nov 2020, 18:41

                                @iandaemon Should be ok now.

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                                  obsidianspider
                                  last edited by 9 Nov 2020, 16:52

                                  MAME ROW #175 is now live!

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                                    IanDaemon
                                    last edited by IanDaemon 21 Nov 2020, 15:02

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

                                    qbert-201121-095551.png

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                                      IanDaemon @IanDaemon
                                      last edited by IanDaemon 2 Nov 2021, 15:11 11 Feb 2021, 15:10

                                      @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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                                        IanDaemon @IanDaemon
                                        last edited by IanDaemon 11 Feb 2021, 16:39

                                        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)
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                                          IanDaemon @IanDaemon
                                          last edited by IanDaemon 2 Dec 2021, 02:39 12 Feb 2021, 00:23

                                          @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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