MAME ROW #30 - The Ultimate 11 - The SNK Football Championship

GtBFilms

Got the chance to try Ultimate 11 out last night, while multi-tasking doing a fresh WindowsXP install on an ancient laptop, and although I am pretty hopeless at it, I think this game is one of the best ones we've had in the MAMEROW!

Of course I picked Scotland as my team and was soundly thrashed in every game, which is a pretty accurate simulation actually. Then I realised the error of my ways and played as Brazil, and managed to scrape a 1-1 draw against Argentina!

Really good fun, but I'm still not entirely sure what buttons to press, despite the instructions at the start of the game, my tactics so far involve one guy running the entire length of the pitch with the ball before attempting to cannonball it past the goalkeeper. Sometimes it works!

The sudden switch of view when you shoot is a bit disconcerting, but it's a great game.

Didn't even get round to trying out the other two yet.

pjft

@GtBFilms :) Well done! I'll be playing Portugal, same reasons, but thankfully I think it's a bit better than Scotland.

It is a fun game overall, though I agree it can be a bit "samey". I also end up for the most part running from one end to the other, or trying to pass the ball diagonally-forward to the wings and then back center. Your players will usually try to run to get the ball.

I don't bother with the "run" button much (is there a run button in this version?), mostly passing and shooting. I don't do high passes much either.

Try to shoot when you're near the goal, even if it's not showing the special icon that will change the view, as sometimes you'll get a rebound and can score while the keeper is on the floor.

Overall, I find it to be a good way to spend some time - I'm not sure how it'll be to get a high score, as I'm certainly not the most proficient there, but should be enjoyable nonetheless :) I may get some time on the weekend to try it out!

UDb23

There's limited (and low Res) artwork available for ultimate 11... Still that didn't stop me from trying to make an overlay for it...
Updates on this tonight ;-)

UDb23

Available now in the Repo.

pjft

@UDb23 looks good! Thanks for the quick turnaround:)

meleu

@UDb23 would you mind in changing the attack/defense letters to clearer color? Maybe cyan... I think the dark blue in the red background is a bit hard to read. ;-)

UDb23

@meleu said in MAME ROW #30 - The Ultimate 11 - The SNK Football Championship:

changing the attack/defense letters

UDb23

Image updated. I just recreated in vectors the instruction sheet scan; original bitmap was too bad to be used directly. Colors were the original... but I agree on that background they were not so readable.
Overall quality is not in line with my own standards but couldn't find any good source files, as said.

Therefore I created something looking like the typical NEO GEO machine/cpo.

meleu

@UDb23 said in MAME ROW #30 - The Ultimate 11 - The SNK Football Championship:

Therefore I created something looking like the typical NEO GEO machine/cpo.

And fitting perfectly in my arcade cabinet:
negeocabinet

UDb23

@meleu You got that at home ? Wow !!!
Original or self made ?

meleu

@UDb23 said in MAME ROW #30 - The Ultimate 11 - The SNK Football Championship:

Original or self made ?

Neither one... :-)

Unfortunately I have no talent for woodwork. I bought from a guy who makes these cabinets and controllers. And then I've put my raspi2 in it. I use this video that @Rookervik made as boot splashscreen and it looks really great on my cabinet:

obsidianspider

I'm not a soccer fan, but I gave this game an honest try, and I'm awful at it. I was never a fan of sports video games. Then again, I'm not really a sports guy in general.

pjft

@obsidianspider said in MAME ROW #30 - The Ultimate 11 - The SNK Football Championship:

I'm not a soccer fan, but I gave this game an honest try, and I'm awful at it. I was never a fan of sports video games. Then again, I'm not really a sports guy in general.

Caption: Worst "it's not you, it's me" breakup line ever.

;)

Thanks for giving it an honest try at least!

obsidianspider

MAME ROW #31 is live!

pjft

@obsidianspider Oh my, thanks for pinging this!

I gave it a few tries during the weekend, and these were my results:

Overall, I preferred the World Championship as the SNK one feels like cheating since, if you want to try to max out your score, you can always pick the weakest teams to play against.

3 Matches, +5 goal difference. Not anything to really brag about, but this is so silent here that I want to at least get some traction :)

Cheers!

UDb23

@pjft had no chance to try it this weekend. :-/

GtBFilms

The days are flying past here, and I barely get enough chance to try out the MAMEROW never mind get a decent score, I'm afraid!

I'm going to give this one another go though as I really enjoyed it.

This weeks ones look interesting too - particularly that roller blading one!