MAME ROW #8: Pac & Pal

meleu

This is the 8th MAME Random Of the Week

UPDATE: The "Pac & Pal" won!

The three random numbers for this week are: 1496, 1258 and 597

1496
Game Name: Real Bout Fatal Fury / Real Bout Garou Densetsu
Company: SNK
Year: 1995
ROM file name: rbff1.zip
BIOS: neogeo

1258
Game Name: Pac & Pal
Company: Namco
Year: 1983
ROM file name: pacnpal.zip
BIOS: -

597
Game Name: Galivan - Cosmo Police (12/16/1985)
Company: Nichibutsu
Year: 1985
ROM file name: galivan.zip
BIOS: -

Please vote: http://www.strawpoll.me/11647377

We will check the most voted game on Wednesday. So we have Monday and Tuesday for experimentations.

What is the MAME ROW?

MAME ROW stands for MAME Random Of the Week. We randomly select an arcade game from the 0.78 MAME ROMset to play on the week. The idea is to play games we've never played before, interact with other forum members, post hi-scores, share game strategies, fun facts, and (the most important) HAVE FUN!

Every Monday we create a topic at the "General Discussion and Gaming" forum section with the 3 random games to be voted. And on Wednesday we check the results.

The current week's game thread is just where there are more people interacting/talking about the game(s). Feel free to post your hi-score (or any content about the game) anytime you want on the previous "rounds" topics (links below).

These "rules" are constantly being improved!

Explaining the randomness of the process

I took the 0.78 compatibility list and applied the following filters (in this order):

Parent: (empty)
Rpi 3 Status: (empty), OK, Untested
Rpi 2 Status: OK, Untested
Rpi 1 Status: Untested
Manufacturer: clear the "bootleg" checkbox

Saved a new spreadsheet with only the results of those filters here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13Q7QEqV5lUo662nvAC3zS_AvQvsjspEcGHVhaHcyzbI/edit?usp=sharing

And then went to www.random.org and generated a random number between 2 and 2185 (ignoring 1 because of the column headers).

Links to the previous "rounds"

Phoenix (not randomly chosen)
New Rally-X (not randomly chosen)

backstander

@meleu
My ROM set show that Galivan Cosmo Police (12/26/1985) is the parent galivan.zip and that galivan2.zip is (12/16/1985). Was this changed in different ROM sets?

pjft

Hm.

I'd vote for any other than Fatal Fury, but that's me. Both look nifty, though I actually didn't know Pac & Pal - looks to be an interesting variant on Pacman, and good for high-scores.

Voted for that!

GtBFilms

Real Bout Fatal Fury / Real Bout Garou Densetsu

Pac & Pal

Galivan - Cosmo Police

dankcushions

we haven't had a fighting game yet, and the fatal fury series are great. voted! :)

meleu

@backstander said in MAME ROW #8:

My ROM set show that Galivan Cosmo Police (12/26/1985) is the parent galivan.zip and that galivan2.zip is (12/16/1985). Was this changed in different ROM sets?

well, I'm using 0.78. My suggestion is to use the galivan.zip of your romset. Should be the same game, right?

cyperghost

@dankcushions Second vote for 4-letter warning game :)

obsidianspider

I can't get Pac & Pal to work (and I don't download full sets, so I have no idea how to tell what version I have) but it doesn't work with lr-fblpha, lr-mame2003, or lr-imame4all, so I'm giving up on that.

I suck at fighting games, but Fatal Fury looks like it has a lot of the King of Fighters characters in it, that's neat.

I've always loved platformers, so Galivan is looking really interesting. I'll have to give that one a bit of a chance before I vote.

cyperghost

@obsidianspider Pac&Pal with lr-mam4all is runnig fine. Wait 20 seconds with the messed up looking screen - it works 100% :)

I don't like PacMan at all - even this... seems to me PacMans throw up blue vomit as special.

obsidianspider

@cyperghost I must have the "wrong" version of the ROM. I'm on the latest version of RetroPie and lr-imame4all just goes back to EmulationStation after a few seconds.

cyperghost

@obsidianspider Well it isn't a game worth to play imho :)

pjft

@cyperghost Now I feel bad for having voted for it :) I suppose I should try the ROMS before voting...

cyperghost

@pjft The world ends now ;)
About the Pac&Pal...That was my opinion only! Long time ago I was gifted with a Atari 2600 VCS with PacMan included. I think I played it much to long ... and this ended in eternal personal hate to the whole series.
See here why:

@obsidianspider
The game consits of two files.

pacnpal.zip
pacnpal2.zip

Ending in two entries of ES (Pac&Pal and Pac&Pal (older)) but the older version runs pacnpal2.zip (Is that serious?)

Galivan is cool, reminds me a bit of Kid Chameleon on the Sega Genesis... but as @dankcushions said... We never got a beat'n'up in the ROW, up to now.

obsidianspider

@cyperghost Yeah, I got pacnpal2.zip and it's still not working. Oh well. It's only Pac-Man.

mediamogul

@cyperghost said in MAME ROW #8:

See here why:

I feel your pain. 'Ms. Pac-Man' and 'Jr. Pac-Man' for the 2600 mended a lot of fences, but for many, the damage was done.

obsidianspider

In Fatal Fury, the "Game Over" guy's voice is hilarious. :)

cyperghost

@mediamogul said in MAME ROW #8:

mended a lot of fences

I like your avatar :) We speak about mending fences ;)

GtBFilms

@obsidianspider said in MAME ROW #8:

Oh well. It's only Pac-Man.

obsidianspider

@GtBFilms I gave it a good try, but I'm not going to go crazy over trying to get it to work.

mediamogul

@cyperghost

I like your avatar

Hah! Thanks. I love that little guy. Although, I'm not sure why Atari felt the need to make him anatomically correct.