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    MAME ROW #8: Pac & Pal

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    • pjftP
      pjft
      last edited by

      I ended up trying two of them last night - didn't have Galivan around in my manually curated list on the Pi. I did watch the video and it looked "interesting", though haven't had the chance to play it.

      Pac&Pal feels like there may be some potential, but too "complicated" for its own good, and not in a good way I feel. It might end up being fun, so I may persevere. I'd probably stand by my vote for it, as I think it may be a good game for high-scores.

      I also tried Fatal Fury as I was more of a SF2/MK kind of person. I liked the fact that you can move between foreground and background - that was an interesting touch. I did suck terribly at it, though. Need to look up a moves list for it, otherwise going in blind does not help at all - at least in my case. Played with Mai and lost the two rounds against Terry.

      Spent the rest of the night finishing playing Midnight Resistance from start to end :P

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      • cyperghostC
        cyperghost
        last edited by

        For now:
        3 votes for Fatal Fry
        2 votes for Pac&Pal
        1 vote for Galivan

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        • GtBFilmsG
          GtBFilms @cyperghost
          last edited by GtBFilms

          @cyperghost

          The contest is hotting up!

          So I finally went for Pac & Pal - i) to keep the vote interesting, but mainly because ii) it has a clear score, whereas as far as I can see, Fatal Fury just has stages, and so a draw is less likely with Pac & Pal.

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          • mediamogulM
            mediamogul Global Moderator
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            I voted for 'Pac & Pal', as I've been meaning to learn the ins and outs of both this game and 'Pac-Man Plus' for a while now. All three choices here would be fun though.

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            • cyperghostC
              cyperghost
              last edited by cyperghost

              Update:
              4 votes for Fatal Fury :)
              3 votes for Pac & Pal
              only 1 for the last one :)

              Hot hot!
              I hope everyone is fair and votes only once!

              @GtBFilms
              FF gots a score counter =)

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              • pjftP
                pjft
                last edited by

                I take it back. Pac & Pal is actually quite fun after you wrap your head around its gameplay.

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                • mediamogulM
                  mediamogul Global Moderator @cyperghost
                  last edited by

                  @cyperghost said in MAME ROW #8:

                  I hope everyone is fair and votes only once!

                  I reserve the right to protest the results... violently!

                  #notmygame

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                  • Lyle_JPL
                    Lyle_JP
                    last edited by

                    If you're having trouble with Pan n Pal roms, can you get Pac-Man and Chomp-Chomp to work? Same game but "Pal" looks like a Pac-dog.

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                    • GtBFilmsG
                      GtBFilms
                      last edited by

                      There's something strange happening with Pac & Pal, I tested it on my PC and it worked fine. On RetroPie, I'm only having any luck with advmame-1.4, despite trying 3 different versions of the ROM.

                      Even on advmame-1.4, while it plays fine, the sound is about 10 seconds behind the action all the time, which is a bit odd.

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                      • mediamogulM
                        mediamogul Global Moderator
                        last edited by

                        Just tested 'Pac & Pal' in lr-mame2003 with 'pacnpal.zip' from the 0.78/2003 reference set, and after quite a bit of playing, it appears to be fully functional. If the game ends up being chosen, that might be the best way to go.

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                        • cyperghostC
                          cyperghost
                          last edited by cyperghost

                          And the winner is ... Seems to be ... Ought to be ...
                          @meleu are you ready? For confirment we need your next posting...

                          With up to now 1 vote more ... trumpet jingle
                          PacMan and bis party .... PAC&PAL
                          Congrats little yellow fruit eating walking spot

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                          • meleuM
                            meleu
                            last edited by

                            Wow! Pac&Pal won!

                            0_1479283907201_20161116_061016.jpg

                            And we have a record on the number of votes: 11. The biggest number we had before was 8.

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                            • mediamogulM
                              mediamogul Global Moderator @meleu
                              last edited by

                              @meleu said in MAME ROW #8:

                              Wow! Pac&Pal won!

                              Wow indeed. Going into this, I was sure that 'Fatal Fury' would win. I had even begun feeling out a few characters to hit the ground running.

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                              • GtBFilmsG
                                GtBFilms @meleu
                                last edited by

                                @meleu what have we done?!

                                It's like the shock U.S Election result all over again!

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                                • meleuM
                                  meleu @GtBFilms
                                  last edited by

                                  @GtBFilms hehe I remembered it too. But our little yellow fellow is a bit more friendly.

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                                  • obsidianspiderO
                                    obsidianspider
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                                    I won't be playing this week as I can't get that game to work on my system. Have fun all.

                                    📷 @obsidianspider

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                                    • pjftP
                                      pjft @mediamogul
                                      last edited by

                                      @mediamogul I had started as well, trying out Mai. Played a bit yesterday

                                      @meleu Great that we had 11 votes, it's good to see this get more traction :)

                                      @obsidianspider What problem are you finding, and what emulator are you trying it on? I believe I'm running it on lr-mame2003. Have you tried "cat /dev/shm/runcommand.log" to see what error you're getting?

                                      Still, looking forward to playing a bit of Pac & Pal with everyone, should be fun.

                                      Cheers!

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                                      • obsidianspiderO
                                        obsidianspider @pjft
                                        last edited by

                                        @pjft I didn't know that there was a log file you could look at after the fact. Thanks!

                                        $ cat /dev/shm/runcommand.log
                                        Parameters: 
                                        Executing: /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mame2003/mame2003_libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/arcade/retroarch.cfg "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/arcade/pacnpal.zip" --appendconfig /dev/shm/retroarch.cfg
                                        papi3.cpu    NOT FOUND
                                        ERROR: required files are missing, the game cannot be run.
                                        

                                        I unzipped the pacnpal.zip and pacnpal2.zip. Looks like I am missing stuff.

                                        0_1479296540127_pacnpal.png

                                        📷 @obsidianspider

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                                        • meleuM
                                          meleu @obsidianspider
                                          last edited by

                                          @obsidianspider why don't you download a "mame 0.78 reference set"? We use this romset version for the MAME ROW.

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                                          • obsidianspiderO
                                            obsidianspider
                                            last edited by

                                            Darn you meddling kids, making me "learn stuff"

                                            I finally dug into this whole "romset" and "versioning" thing for MAME. I found a 0.78 version of pacnpal.zip and it works fine with lr-mame2003.

                                            I still liked Galivan best. ;)

                                            📷 @obsidianspider

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