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    MAME ROW #4: 4-D Warriors

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    • meleuM
      meleu
      last edited by

      Hey guys, I'm sorry for the mess. I'm at work since I started this topic and I'm not able to make any tests here.

      I decided to delete American Speedway as early as possible to avoid having to restart the poll and committing some injustice with the votes already made.

      If you agree I'll pick only 2 numbers for the next week and include American Speedway.

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      • mediamogulM
        mediamogul Global Moderator
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        @meleu said in MAME ROW #4:

        Hey guys, I'm sorry for the mess.

        Like the man says, there's no problems, only solutions.

        Depthcharge:

        RetroPie v4.5 • RPi3 Model B • 5.1V 2.5A PSU • 16GB SanDisk microSD • 512GB External Drive

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        • GtBFilmsG
          GtBFilms @mediamogul
          last edited by GtBFilms

          Space Duel was a minor pain to get running, the 'select' key is mapped to '2' which isn't a mapped key on my cab. I used advmame1. 4 and in the settings (TAB) remapped the select key for just this game only and it now works fine.

          Just a suggestion if anyone else has a similar issue.

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          • meleuM
            meleu @mediamogul
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            @mediamogul I played Depthcharge. I liked it as a history class, but I almost slept while playing... :)

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            • GtBFilmsG
              GtBFilms @meleu
              last edited by GtBFilms

              @meleu

              Yeah, you certainly got good value for your inserted coin back in those days!

              I played it until my first ship sank. As you say, interesting, but not exactly riveting!

              4-D Warriors was interesting, but as a big Asteroids fan, I had to vote for Space Duel, yeah, I guess Atari were milking the franchise a bit by 1982 (that's when the International Arcade Museum reckons it was released - http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9647)

              Edit: Actually no, you are correct, they are wrong - that MCMLXXX on the title screen proves it was 1980, not 1982!

              I appreciate their attempts to add a bit more variety with the 2 simultaneous player game, and that odd '1 player with 2 tethered space ships' concept, but I still prefer the simple 1 player, 1 ship option.

              Anyway, it gets my vote!

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              • obsidianspiderO
                obsidianspider
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                I realize that Depthcharge is from 1977, but did it have sound? Mine doesn't seem to have any.

                📷 @obsidianspider

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                • meleuM
                  meleu @obsidianspider
                  last edited by

                  @obsidianspider said in MAME ROW #4:

                  I realize that Depthcharge is from 1977, but did it have sound? Mine doesn't seem to have any.

                  Same here. I think it doesn't have sound.

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                  • meleuM
                    meleu
                    last edited by

                    "4-D Warriors" won

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                    It doesn't have "continue". So it's a good game to post hi-scores. :-)

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                    • dankcushionsD
                      dankcushions Global Moderator
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                      @obsidianspider said in MAME ROW #4:

                      I realize that Depthcharge is from 1977, but did it have sound? Mine doesn't seem to have any.

                      it uses samples

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                      • obsidianspiderO
                        obsidianspider @dankcushions
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                        @dankcushions said in MAME ROW #4: 4-D Warriors:

                        @obsidianspider said in MAME ROW #4:

                        I realize that Depthcharge is from 1977, but did it have sound? Mine doesn't seem to have any.

                        it uses samples

                        Awesome! That helped a lot. I never would have thought of something like that.

                        I have to say, that while I love discovering these "new" games, learning more about how MAME works is probably my favorite part of this series.

                        📷 @obsidianspider

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                        • dankcushionsD
                          dankcushions Global Moderator
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                          no problem :) the sounds are actually kinda cool! wonder how they achieved those on 1970s hardware...

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                          • obsidianspiderO
                            obsidianspider
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                            This game is kicking my butt!

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                            📷 @obsidianspider

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                            • obsidianspiderO
                              obsidianspider
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                              Whew, finally got to six digits.
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                              You get an extra life at 30,000 and 100,000 points. I still don't know how to get past "AREA.1"

                              📷 @obsidianspider

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                              • meleuM
                                meleu @obsidianspider
                                last edited by

                                @obsidianspider Wow! nice score man!!!

                                There's a kind of boss that keeps changing the plane. You have to press up until the top of the "wall" to go after it. See

                                .

                                I could get to the AREA.4, but to be honest I didn't notice when I passed from one to another :P

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                                • meleuM
                                  meleu
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                                  A quick googling about "4-D Warriors strategies" took me to wikipedia. There's no real strategies, but there are some description of all those strange things that happen in this game and it might help. Take a read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-D_Warriors

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                                  • meleuM
                                    meleu
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                                    What should we do when a MAME ROW game needs some tweaks to work? (it is implicit in this question that after the tweaks the game are perfectly playable with a joystick)
                                    Please, answer here: http://www.strawpoll.me/11478755

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                                    • obsidianspiderO
                                      obsidianspider @meleu
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                                      @meleu said in MAME ROW #4: 4-D Warriors:

                                      What should we do when a MAME ROW game needs some tweaks to work? (it is implicit in this question that after the tweaks the game are perfectly playable with a joystick)
                                      Please, answer here: http://www.strawpoll.me/11478755

                                      I think it depends on what you consider a tweak. I wasn't about to recompile MAME just to play a single game, but mapping a button doesn't bother me.

                                      📷 @obsidianspider

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                                      • dankcushionsD
                                        dankcushions Global Moderator @meleu
                                        last edited by

                                        if people don't want to do the tweak then they can vote for another game in the poll.

                                        so many polls already. is this how the EU started? ;)

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                                        • meleuM
                                          meleu @dankcushions
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                                          @dankcushions said in MAME ROW #4: 4-D Warriors:

                                          if people don't want to do the tweak then they can vote for another game in the poll.

                                          Good point. It fits the K.I.S.S. principle and there's no chance to make the little mess like I made this week.

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                                          • cyperghostC
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                                            My score: 23500 pts :)

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