MAME ROW #41 - Super Tank

[cyperghost]

@obsidianspider
Does the randomizer really works?
Last two rows were overwhelmed by space/air shooters ;)
No we've got a collection of games like VCS systems.
I'm excited which game wins - I really haven't any favourite now.

[dankcushions]

super tank answers the question "what would pacman be like with invisible walls and the ability to shoot?" with "not very good"

"joyful road"? "hateful road", more like! the hands seemed to not work for me. don't get it!

avalanche - i love how the rumble gets louder and louder. mame2003 also lets you play with the analogue! if you have a steady hand... it's probably easier with a mouse/spinner.

avalanche gets my vote, for now!

[A Former User]

Voted for tank out of sentiment, but was thinking about other similar looking game.

Should've gone for the Joyful, looks proper Nippon-mad.

[obsidianspider]

@cyperghost I use random.org to select the numbers. With thousands of games to choose from they can't be amazing every week. ;)

[UDb23]

@lilbud said in MAME ROW #41:

It also requires spinners/paddles.

You can always build one by yourself: how to here ;-)

[lilbud]

@UDb23 Do you know of a way to use Atari Paddle controllers on the pi? I have a few.

[UDb23]

@lilbud Adapters exist afaik: like this.
Have no info if that is working well unfortunately.

[GtBFilms]

I had a look at spinners here:

https://www.arcadeworlduk.com/products/SpinTrak-Arcade-Spinner.html

But at £50 for the spinner and another £20 for a knob and flywheel, it doesn't work out cheap!

Especially when you consider the relatively small number of games which would make use of it.

I came to the same conclusion about an Ikari Warriors style twistable joystick!

[meleu]

@cyperghost said in MAME ROW #41:

Does the randomizer really works?

I think random.org has its own preferences. One I already realized is that it loves shoot'em ups. And recently I'm noticing that it is making thematic MAME ROW selections. :-)

[lilbud]

@meleu I wish random.org's preferences would change to puzzle games.

Japanese Puzzle Games...Made by Taito...On the Neo Geo

You get my point

[meleu]

@lilbud It gave puzzle a try in MAME ROW #9. But then came back to shooters...

[obsidianspider]

This week's winner is Super Tank

…and it has what is quite possibly the best arcade flyer of MAME ROW to date:

[GtBFilms]

I didn't vote in this one, as SuperTank was the only one I got the chance to play.

I liked it more than I thought I would - it runs at a decent pace, but not being able to immediately double-back on yourself, aka Pacman, takes some getting used to.

It also took me a while to realise the red things weren't landmines, but power pills!

My high score so far - 14440

[UDb23]

@obsidianspider said in MAME ROW #41:

and it has what is quite possibly the best arcade flyer of MAME ROW

That flyer is sooo baad...
Caesar looking tank with nose shooting water ??!! And flowers on the side ?!??#@!!
please don't even think of asking for an overlay...

[meleu]

@UDb23 maybe if @obsidianspider was posting in --verbose mode we were able to see the logs saying SARCASTIC_MODE=1.

[A Former User]

So how do I set this up? MAME has always been confusing as algebra.

[A Former User]

@itsnitro https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Arcade/

In short: you need to match the romset version with the one which the emulator of your choice uses. It's not actually that complex but if you really can not stomach clrmamepro et al you can always just try and download that particular romset version.

[UDb23]

@meleu said in MAME ROW #41:

we were able to see the logs saying SARCASTIC_MODE=1.

Absolutely right :-D

[Fruitybit]

@obsidianspider Harder than it looks, first time in a while I've been able to play the weekly choice, will try to scupper all your high scores (lol I wish) this week.

[GtBFilms]

@arkive Your best bet is probably romset version 0.78. which seems to work pretty well with MAME2003 in Retropie.

There's still the odd game which doesn't work very well, but I use advmame for them (0.93 rather than the later version because the later one seems to have a weird sound-delay issue on my setup).