MAME ROW #8: Pac & Pal

pjft · 21 Nov 2016, 10:24

@meleu Real life happens some times, thanks for still making all of this happen!

I'm sad that I didn't have a lot more chances to play Pac & Pal - I was having a good time with it. I will likely return to it in the future when I have the time - it was an enjoyable game, and one I wouldn't have discovered without ROW!

Congrats @mediamogul @GtBFilms for your great scores!

mediamogul · 21 Nov 2016, 14:40

@meleu

Not a problem. Looking forward to the next one.

backstander · 21 Nov 2016, 16:17

@meleu
Thank you for hosting this! Sorry to hear about the audits but I just watched the movie Deepwater Horizon (2016) and that disaster could have been prevented if BP would have allowed for proper audits instead of rushing because they where behind schedule. Stay safe @meleu :-)

I didn't have much time to play Pac & Pal but I could only get to the 2nd level so I didn't bother taking a picture of my high score but I did visit family this weekend and we got pretty competitive playing the Gameboy version of Tetris!

mediamogul · 21 Nov 2016, 17:14

@backstander said in MAME ROW #8: Pac & Pal:

we got pretty competitive playing the Gameboy version of Tetris!

It's a great game to get competitive over. Arguable the best version of the game as well.

pjft · 21 Nov 2016, 17:25

@backstander @mediamogul Fully agreed.

In fact, any way to play it two player on RetroPie - or a similarly fun 2P competitive Tetris game?

That's one of the few games I get to play with my wife, but no version so far has been fully successful in winning us over - tried Tengen Tetris on the NES, Tetris Gaiden on the SNES, Tetris Plus 2 on MAME...

The closest one we got was the one in SNES on the Dr. Mario + Tetris bundle.

meleu · 21 Nov 2016, 17:34

@backstander said in MAME ROW #8: Pac & Pal:

I just watched the movie Deepwater Horizon (2016)

I watched only the trailer when I went to watch Dr. Strange. Only the trailer was enough to make me have a huge lump in my throat.

I'm not sure if I'll watch this movie some day.

Now let's vote ~~on Kung-Fu Master~~ for the MAME ROW #9! :)

dankcushions · 21 Nov 2016, 17:53

@pjft said in MAME ROW #8: Pac & Pal:

@backstander @mediamogul Fully agreed.

In fact, any way to play it two player on RetroPie - or a similarly fun 2P competitive Tetris game?

yeah, tgb-dual. not looked into it myself https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroPie/comments/56jcnn/how_do_you_install_tgb_dual_gameboy_multiplayer/

That's one of the few games I get to play with my wife, but no version so far has been fully successful in winning us over - tried Tengen Tetris on the NES, Tetris Gaiden on the SNES, Tetris Plus 2 on MAME...

tetris battle gaiden is my fave :) ninja kid OP!

pjft · 21 Nov 2016, 18:03

@dankcushions Thanks, will look into that in the coming days.

Tetris Battle Gaiden is awesome, even though the powers add an extra layer of complexity to my non-gamer wife. I am a gentleman and do not use them against her :)

That being said, what's most distracting to her is the fact that the pieces "glide" rather than "jump" when moving to the sides (i.e. they move pixel by pixel, rather than moving one full grid block at a time). I know it's an animation thing, but it's quite distracting for her as she can't fully control the blocks quite as she wants to.

Oh well :)

backstander · 21 Nov 2016, 20:32

@meleu

I watched only the trailer when I went to watch Dr. Strange. Only the trailer was enough to make me have a huge lump in my throat.

I really want to see Dr. Strange but you may not want to watch Deepwater Horizon if you work in that environment.

@pjft @dankcushions dankcushions

yeah, tgb-dual. not looked into it myself

I use tgb-dual with the Gameboy Tetris and it works like a charm! It just displays both Gameboy screens side-by-side. You can also pick if you want just the left Gameboy's sound, just the right or both or non.

That's one of the few games I get to play with my wife, but no version so far has been fully successful in winning us over - tried Tengen Tetris on the NES, Tetris Gaiden on the SNES, Tetris Plus 2 on MAME...

I use to would play "The Next Tetris" on the PSX back-in-the-day and it's a lot of fun! I haven't tested it on RetroPie yet.

backstander · 22 Nov 2016, 03:06

I just tried the bin/cue & pbp versions of The Next Tetris for PSX in both lr-pcsx-rearmed & pcsx-rearmed and the Dreamcast version of The Next Tetris Online Edition in Reicast and non of them would work. Dreamcast version just kicks back to ES after the BIOS screen and the PSX versions will get up to just before loading the game's title screen and will freeze with a black screen.

mediamogul · 22 Nov 2016, 04:21

@backstander

A lot of the sprite-based games behave poorly on emulators that focus primarily on 3D system titles. This could be an example of that.

dankcushions · 22 Nov 2016, 08:22

@backstander could you post your /dec/shm/runcommand.log? i'm guessing BIOS issues

EDIT after a psx fail.

backstander · 22 Nov 2016, 15:22

@dankcushions

could you post your /dev/shm/runcommand.log? i'm guessing BIOS issues
EDIT after a psx fail.

lr-pcsx-rearmed runcommand.log
http://pastebin.com/qnFkasD6

pcsx-rearmed runcommand.log
http://pastebin.com/68K73PvC

reicast runcommand.log
http://pastebin.com/yVxmCzEx

VictimRLSH · 23 Dec 2018, 09:50

A bit rusty, but any SNK/Neo Geo fighting game with Joe Higashi in it I can do reasonably well. His play has some similarities to Ken/Ryu, and he has some very impressive close-quarters combos.