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    MAME ROW #16 - Mystic Riders

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    • UDb23U
      UDb23
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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
        UDb23
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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
          GtBFilms
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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
            meleu
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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" ;)

                  📷 @obsidianspider

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                  • meleuM
                    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
                      lilbud @meleu
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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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                      • meleuM
                        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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                            backstander @meleu
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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
                              GtBFilms
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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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                                    • mviarsM
                                      mviars @GtBFilms
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                                      @GtBFilms At least it looks like you could make the screen bigger down the road when your ready.

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                                      • mviarsM
                                        mviars @meleu
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                                        @meleu said in MAME ROW #16:

                                        @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.

                                        Yeah I definitely enjoy watching the anime of One Piece.

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                                        RetroPie 4.1

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                                        • mviarsM
                                          mviars @obsidianspider
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                                          @obsidianspider said in MAME ROW #16:

                                          @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.

                                          I'm with you on that one. I am trying to modify my old cab with a 32" tv in it to a 32" high res monitor except I want the monitor to rotate for horizontal or vertical play like this guy did

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                                          • UDb23U
                                            UDb23 @GtBFilms
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                                            @GtBFilms Great Work !!
                                            Now I'm really tempted to try to build one.

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