MAME ROW #4: 4-D Warriors

dankcushions

I realize that Depthcharge is from 1977, but did it have sound? Mine doesn't seem to have any.

obsidianspider

@dankcushions said in MAME ROW #4: 4-D Warriors:

@obsidianspider said in MAME ROW #4:

I realize that Depthcharge is from 1977, but did it have sound? Mine doesn't seem to have any.

it uses samples

Awesome! That helped a lot. I never would have thought of something like that.

I have to say, that while I love discovering these "new" games, learning more about how MAME works is probably my favorite part of this series.

dankcushions

no problem :) the sounds are actually kinda cool! wonder how they achieved those on 1970s hardware...

obsidianspider

This game is kicking my butt!

obsidianspider

Whew, finally got to six digits.

You get an extra life at 30,000 and 100,000 points. I still don't know how to get past "AREA.1"

meleu

@obsidianspider Wow! nice score man!!!

There's a kind of boss that keeps changing the plane. You have to press up until the top of the "wall" to go after it. See

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I could get to the AREA.4, but to be honest I didn't notice when I passed from one to another :P

meleu

A quick googling about "4-D Warriors strategies" took me to wikipedia. There's no real strategies, but there are some description of all those strange things that happen in this game and it might help. Take a read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-D_Warriors

meleu

What should we do when a MAME ROW game needs some tweaks to work? (it is implicit in this question that after the tweaks the game are perfectly playable with a joystick)
Please, answer here: http://www.strawpoll.me/11478755

obsidianspider

@meleu said in MAME ROW #4: 4-D Warriors:

What should we do when a MAME ROW game needs some tweaks to work? (it is implicit in this question that after the tweaks the game are perfectly playable with a joystick)
Please, answer here: http://www.strawpoll.me/11478755

I think it depends on what you consider a tweak. I wasn't about to recompile MAME just to play a single game, but mapping a button doesn't bother me.

dankcushions

if people don't want to do the tweak then they can vote for another game in the poll.

so many polls already. is this how the EU started? ;)

meleu

@dankcushions said in MAME ROW #4: 4-D Warriors:

if people don't want to do the tweak then they can vote for another game in the poll.

Good point. It fits the K.I.S.S. principle and there's no chance to make the little mess like I made this week.

cyperghost

My score: 23500 pts :)

GtBFilms

Looks like I need to try a bit harder!

cyperghost

My personal best: 32200 :)

R1n0X

My Score: 25300
Nvidia Shield / Mame 0.139

meleu

Link for the MAME ROW #5 topic:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/4765/mame-row-5

VictimRLSH

Was definitely more a fan of Space Duel. 4-D Warriors is a bit choppy and hard to figure out what exactly is going on.

I think I need to turn up the definition on my vector preferences, the little + shaped mines were really hard to see on a small screen.