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    MAME ROW #16 - Mystic Riders

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    • obsidianspiderO
      obsidianspider
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      I think we can just choose between the two playable options, but I'll defer to the group if there is a lot of support for re-choosing that option.

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      • obsidianspiderO
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        Mystic Riders crashes for me as soon as the first stage starts when using lr-mame2003. I switched to lr-mame2010 and with that emulator the game runs fine.

        📷 @obsidianspider

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        • meleuM
          meleu @GtBFilms
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          @GtBFilms said in MAME ROW #16:

          Shall we redraw game number 2, seeing as probably very few people will be able to play it?

          We discussed about it on MAME ROW #4. And decided that when this kind of things happen we'll leave the list as it was sorted by the random numbers.

          When it's clear that the game is a quiz or a mahjong I usually discard the game and mention it on the post.

          I think it fits the K.I.S.S. principle.

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          • meleuM
            meleu @obsidianspider
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            @obsidianspider said in MAME ROW #16:

            Mystic Riders crashes for me as soon as the first stage starts when using lr-mame2003.

            It didn't happen here. I'm using mame2003 and reached the stage 2 with no crash.

            Nice game, by the way.

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            • UDb23U
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              Bagman: used to play it with a friend after school, waiting for the bus to get back home.
              High School ;-)
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              • UDb23U
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                (Slightly) off topic: recently found really nice Bezels made by Comboman for quite rare (in terms of original cabinets) Universal games.
                Asked him and it is ok if I use them to create Retropie "adaptations"....
                expect some new overlays coming ;-)

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                • GtBFilmsG
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                  I gave both Super Bagman and Mystic Riders a try last night.

                  Super Bagman is an odd one, it wasn't bad but strikes me as the sort of game I used to play on my home micro (8 bit ZX Spectrum), it isn't what I have come to expect from an arcade game at all. It requires a lot more planning and thought that a traditional arcade coin-gobbler, and doesn't really seem to have a 'flow' to it.

                  That said, I didn't dislike it.

                  Mystic Riders, while not perhaps an IREM classic, does look excellent. Perhaps just a little too busy at times, it doesn't have the pure visual clarity of earlier titles like R-Type, and suffers a little from the 'unexpected death from a bullet I didn't notice' syndrome. Button-mashing both buttons at once seems to work well when things get chaotic, which does detract a little from the feeling of skill in playing.

                  For pure arcade-style play, and the fact it does look really nice, my vote this week goes to Mystic Riders!

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                  • meleuM
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                    Grab your brooms and let's shoot some cute enemies!
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                    • obsidianspiderO
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                      A few tips I've figured out:

                      You can charge up your shot by holding down A (using the default controller bindings), and if you press Down then Up quickly you'll do a backflip.

                      The "I got killed by a thing I didn't see because of everything going on" factor is strong with this game.

                      📷 @obsidianspider

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                      • meleuM
                        meleu @obsidianspider
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                        @obsidianspider I think you and @GtBFilms got one of those Usopp's diseases. :-)

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                        (He is an One Piece's character.)

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                        • obsidianspiderO
                          obsidianspider @meleu
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                          @meleu I definitely had to Google "Usopp" ;)

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                            meleu @obsidianspider
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                            @obsidianspider One of the most frequently used excuses when he's scared is that he gets a disease named, for example, "I-can't-go-on-this-island-or-I'll-die-disease".

                            One Piece is really fun manga. I started reading it when I got the I-have-a-kid-and-I-can-use-this-as-an-excuse-to-read-mangas disease.

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                            • lilbudL
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                              @meleu I tried reading manga, I just can't. It hurts my brain after a while.

                              Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

                              Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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                                meleu @lilbud
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                                @lilbud does it happen because you have to read/turn pages from right to left? You'll get used to it after a while...

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                                • lilbudL
                                  lilbud @meleu
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                                  @meleu Yeah, I can't do that. I have tried several times.

                                  Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

                                  Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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                                    When I was in grade school I picked up this odd habit of browsing through magazines in reverse. Like I would open at the back of the magazine and flip through the pages moving towards the front and I would stop at the articles I wanted to read, then when done with that article, I would keep moving towards the front. I had forgotten about this until @meleu mentioned "read/turn pages from right to left". I mostly did this when I was waiting at the doctor's office or wherever.

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                                    • GtBFilmsG
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                                      @meleu I had never heard of usopp before, but you're right, I definitely have that disease!

                                      In the words of Tony Hancock, "Hypochondria is about the only disease I'm pretty sure I DON'T have"

                                      Here's my-best-score-so-far score!

                                      151700

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                                      For some reason the screenshot won't upload though. (edit: was Firefox weirdness, it worked using Chrome instead)

                                      I've replaced the screen on my cabinet with a 12 inch rather than an 8 inch which makes things a bit easier to see!

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                                      • obsidianspiderO
                                        obsidianspider @GtBFilms
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                                        @GtBFilms Nice. I've been looking for a thin 4:3 display and they're few and far between, almost all are old monitors from ten years ago. It's almost impossible to find a "large" one or any that have a digital input.

                                        📷 @obsidianspider

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                                        • UDb23U
                                          UDb23 @GtBFilms
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                                          @GtBFilms nice cab ! Can you post some pictures ?

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                                          • GtBFilmsG
                                            GtBFilms @UDb23
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                                            @UDb23 Thanks! I jump at any excuse to post pictures of my cab!

                                            It's a modified Picade (desktop) kit from www.Pimoroni.com.

                                            It's gone through quite a few changes, as I have got a little addicted to tinkering with it!

                                            From the stock build I've changed the artwork, added a marquee light, changed the joystick and buttons (multiple times!), changed the joystick handle to a heavier solid aluminium one (recommended), changed the joystick restrictor place to a circular one (still not entirely convinced this was a good idea), moved the volume control to the back, added a PowerBlock switch to shut down safely, and the last (maybe?) thing was to swap out the screen for a bigger one. (the new screen is a relatively cheap one from a Chinese Ebay seller, it's okay for the money, but the viewing angle is pretty shallow and the lighting isn't uniform from top to bottom - only really noticeable when the screen is entirely black though, there are better screens about, but it was pretty cheap!)

                                            This is it now:
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                                            Previously, with the standard 8" screen:
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                                            Size comparison with my bartop (this was the reason for building it, because that bartop is made of extremely heavy PVC and isn't as portable as I expected it to be, whereas you can carry the picade in one hand!)

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