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    MAME ROW #41 - Super Tank

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    • ?
      A Former User
      last edited by

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

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

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      • obsidianspiderO
        obsidianspider @cyperghost
        last edited by

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

        📷 @obsidianspider

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        • UDb23U
          UDb23 @lilbud
          last edited by

          @lilbud said in MAME ROW #41:

          It also requires spinners/paddles.

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

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          • lilbudL
            lilbud @UDb23
            last edited by

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

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

            Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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            • UDb23U
              UDb23 @lilbud
              last edited by

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

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              • GtBFilmsG
                GtBFilms
                last edited by

                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!

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                • meleuM
                  meleu @cyperghost
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                  @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. :-)

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                  • lilbudL
                    lilbud @meleu
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                    @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

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

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                    • meleuM
                      meleu @lilbud
                      last edited by

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

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                      • obsidianspiderO
                        obsidianspider
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                        This week's winner is Super Tank

                        0_1499252333885_Screen Shot 2017-07-05 at 6.56.31 AM.png

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

                        0_1499252364925_st.jpg

                        📷 @obsidianspider

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                        • GtBFilmsG
                          GtBFilms
                          last edited by 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

                          0_1499263481122_supertank.jpg

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                          • UDb23U
                            UDb23 @obsidianspider
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                            @obsidianspider said in MAME ROW #41:

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

                            0_1499273964443_q-bert.jpg
                            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...

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                            • meleuM
                              meleu @UDb23
                              last edited by

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

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                              • ?
                                A Former User
                                last edited by

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

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                                • ?
                                  A Former User @A Former User
                                  last edited by

                                  @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.

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                                  • UDb23U
                                    UDb23 @meleu
                                    last edited by

                                    @meleu said in MAME ROW #41:

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

                                    Absolutely right :-D

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                                    • FruitybitF
                                      Fruitybit @obsidianspider
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                                      @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.

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                                      • GtBFilmsG
                                        GtBFilms @A Former User
                                        last edited by

                                        @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).

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                                        • meleuM
                                          meleu
                                          last edited by

                                          What do we have to do on stage 2? I shot that big tank for minutes and nothing happens...

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                                          • obsidianspiderO
                                            obsidianspider @meleu
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                                            @meleu said in MAME ROW #41:

                                            What do we have to do on stage 2? I shot that big tank for minutes and nothing happens...

                                            I found the instruction manual and in addition to telling you how to wire it up and adjust dip switches, it actually tells you how to play.

                                            0_1499437542603_Screen Shot 2017-07-07 at 10.24.03 AM.png

                                            Based on that it looks like you need to shoot the Super Tank right in the barrel. I'll see if I can do that. I finally got to Stage 2, but the Super Tank kills me instantly.

                                            📷 @obsidianspider

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