Share Your Favorite, Lesser-known Arcade Gems

AlexMurphy

@UDb23 How much was the Trackball? Don't mean to be forward but I think it might be well worth the investment.

UDb23

The End and Cosmic Guerilla.
They are classics but little known.

I played 'em on the real cabs at that time ;-)

AlexMurphy

@UDb23 Ah, A well-spent youth. I bet you are a half decent pool player too.

UDb23

@AlexMurphy said in Share Your Favorite, Lesser-known Arcade Gems:

How much was the Trackball?

It's a Kensington Orbit Trackball Mouse; about 25 USD on Amazon.
Medium sized ball and two buttons.
Bought it for Missile Command... as a third button I use a dedicated key on the keyboard ;-)
Three button Trackball seemed too expensive for that use.

sirhenrythe5th

When its about psychodelic Jump & Runs i would like to throw "Pupirula" in the ring.
Never saw something similar as far as Arcade Games are concerned.
Give it a try and reach at least Level two, this is when it becomes very....strange.

dankcushions

@pjft said in Share Your Favorite, Lesser-known Arcade Gems:

@AlexMurphy thanks. I was under the impression that Moonwalker didn't run well on 2003. I'll definitely try it then!

note that only the "bootleg" version works (moonwlkb.zip i think). i think all the bootleg does is remove the copy protection, which wasn't fully emulated at the time.

pjft

@dankcushions moonwlkb.zip indeed - thanks for the heads up.

I'm also getting hold of a trackball USB mouse, and will try to set it up on MAME 2003 to see if some of the trackball games work well - Marble Madness and Cabal, for sure. Not su sure about Missile Command, given the need for 3 fire buttons. But one step at a time!

dankcushions

Air Gallet airgallet.zip

this is a top-tier shoot-em-up developed by gazelle. it runs on the cave board and the devs are also ex toaplan so you can see comparisons with what cave went on to do. lots of bullets!

plus the intro is the best ever:

and what is a "gallet" anyway?!

Capeman

@sirhenrythe5th said in Share Your Favorite, Lesser-known Arcade Gems:

When its about psychodelic Jump & Runs i would like to throw "Pupirula" in the ring.
Never saw something similar as far as Arcade Games are concerned.
Give it a try and reach at least Level two, this is when it becomes very....strange.

Does this run in retropie? I thought this one was too new to be supported? If so do share your settings!

backstander

@Capeman

Does this run in retropie? I thought this one was too new to be supported? If so do share your settings!

I didn't have any problems playing Pu-Li-Ru-La with lr-mame2003 with the correct romset. I didn't have to change any settings.

There is also a PlayStation version called Pu-Li-Ru-La Arcade Gears but I've never tested on the RPi.

Capeman

@backstander said in Share Your Favorite, Lesser-known Arcade Gems:

I didn't have any problems playing Pu-Li-Ru-La with lr-mame2003 with the correct romset.

Awesome! Going to try it out tonight!

Capeman

The arcade rom i've been having the most trouble with is Demon Front. I love the look of the metal slug style gameplay, but for the life of me i cannot find a rom that works with FBA or even know which version of lr-fba it'll work with...

I'm no slouch when it comes to having correct romsets for mame (ive got like 4 different sets and really havent had any trouble with it), but i am VERY LAZY when it comes to keeping up with FBA romsets. I've set up the entirety of FBA using mame sets and trial and error, i guess my laziness is biting me in the butt, but for the most part it works, haha.

Darksavior

@Capeman Well..do it the easy way and not the hard way. Get the correct fba romset. Look up what version fba is and google. No trial and error required...

Capeman

@Darksavior I know, but I'm soooooo lazy hahahaha!

sirhenrythe5th

@Capeman I am using Advance Mame 3.4 on a Pi3 and it runs Pulirula also without any restrictions ☺

UDb23

@AlexMurphy :-) )
Yes pool tables still used to be in bars...but only for a short time.. and I was too young for that.
Video games were so fascinating... one of the first ever I saw was

No color and few sounds but it looked so innovative at that time.
And the "docking" for refuel... wow!

Nobody would ever play it today, including me ... it's so basic :-D

UDb23

@dankcushions said in Share Your Favorite, Lesser-known Arcade Gems:

Air Gallet airgallet.zip
this is a top-tier shoot-em-up developed by gazelle

Love this and shmups in general.
Overlays coming...

Also Macross Plus is a lot of fun with great intro and in-game graphics:

Dipkid

@Capeman do you have the pgm.zip bios in the rom folder? that was my problem. It solved my week long battle with gettin demon front runnin.

UDb23

@dankcushions said in Share Your Favorite, Lesser-known Arcade Gems:
AIR GALLET

this is a top-tier shoot-em-up developed by gazelle. it runs on the cave board and the devs are also ex toaplan so you can see comparisons with what cave went on to do. lots of bullets!

Took me a while to find original artwork to create the overlay.
Just finished and available here.

chrisdodgen

My cousin turned me on to Crossed Swords.

It's a good time waster that reminds me of Punch Out, and even maybe some later tablet apps.