John Stamos Mullet

If it hasn't already been said enough - PacManPlus' 7800 homebrews are incredible! Recently I've gotten heavily back into the Pac-Man arcade platform, since I've been spending most of my retrogaming time playing and tweaking my Arcade1up cabs. I've now modded my Pac-Man cab to be a RPi-driven "Pac-Museum." It has all the various iterations of Pac-Man from the arcade. So the one discussion that always seems to come up with this, especially in Arcade emulation circles is the debate of dedicated 4-way vs. 8-way stick. My Pac-Man cab has a dedicated 4-way, and I've only put games that require a 4-way stick on it. I've been toying with the idea of also putting the various console versions of Pac-Man on it, and it occurred to me - none of the consoles have dedicated 4 way sticks. So my questions are: Does Pac-Man Collection, or Jr. Pac-Man, etc. for the 7800 derive any benefit from using a 4-way stick? Are they coded to compensate for using an 8-way stick with predictive movements (like later versoins of MAME) or are we all hampering ourselves using 8-way 7800 controllers on a game that is coded for 4-way play? We don't need to get into the 4-way vs. 8-way debate here, I'd rather not have this topic devolve into a flame war. I'm ambivalent on the subject as I am able to play just as well with either.

Ms. Pac-Man is a huge get from a licensing standpoint, but the rest of the games they put on there they've already released multiple times. Weak. Funny to see ATGames getting cucked on that one though.

There's only 1 for sale currently.

You said you'd like to see it when it's done? Here it is. I culled the game selection to only games I like. I'm still on the fence about Pac-Land being in there since it's the only horizontal game. It felt unfinished not having it as an option on a Pac-Themed cab, but it's not a game I play much, and having 1 horizontal game on a vertical screen might annoy me enough to take it out.

That bankswitching worked on the previous Concerto cart, so I think he already has it sorted. The added POKEY address didn't though, so that would be key.

If there is a list, please put me on it. Want one!

FbNeo on Retropie, on my Pi-equipped Arcade1Up Pac-man cabinet, with a genuine Sanwa JLF. Zero Lag, Arcade quality control, proper vertical monitor, correct arcade aspect ratio, original arcade ROM, 100% accurate emulation, and the lovely glow of a backlit arcade marquee lighting the room.

For the classics, absolutely. For newer stuff it would probably lag and sputter. I tried Steel Talons, and it was unplayable. But everything up through the early 90's was fine. I keep mine to about 80 +/- games, all classic arcade games pre-1988.

Well for this one - definitely not. Initial cost of the Pac-Man cab at retail was $299. I got mine for $125 (Walmart). Then I added: 1 Sanwa joystick $20 (Ebay) 1 EG Starts LED Sanwa button set & USB Encoder: $19 (Amazon) 1 Video display board for HDMI to LVDS: $29 (Amazon) Raspberry pi 3B - $26 (Microcenter) Lexar 32Gb MicroUSB card: $11 (Staples) Lighted Marquee: $50 (Arcade Game factory) Final Cost $280. But the convenience of being able to add and remove games as I see fit, run thousands of games vs. 2 games, and add filters, shaders, lighted marquee, etc. is totally worth it. My Galaga cab I spent a little more on because it was $150 when I bought it and I also added a GRS Spinner ($50) and LED lighted trackball ($25) in addition to the above. But it plays EVERYTHING perfectly. Again, totally worth it.

yup. no need for anything more powerful with those games.

The Pi Build is done. I used a copy of my Galaga retropie image, and just hid all the non 4-way games. Just waiting on the USB encoder and Video board to be delivered so I can plug it all in.

Also of note - Until now I had a *stock* Pac-Man cabinet (semi-stock, I swapped out the shit awful joystick for a genuine Sanwa) and a Retropie modded Galaga cab - but after pretty much playing the Galag cab exclusively - I realized that I barely ever play the Pac-Man cab even though I love how it looks, because it only had 2 games, and the emulation is shit. The crackling/popping audio, lack of graphical smoothing and scanlines is a complete dealbreaker for me. So I broke down and got another Rpi, video board, and usb zero delay encoder. I'm going to make it an all Vertical, all 4-way joystick/single fire button games cab, with mostly Pac-themed games and a few other classic 4-way/single button games thrown in. (Galaga/Galaxian/Donkey Kong/Dig Dug. etc.)

Yeah - It looks like a... Frogger cabinet. Frogger is a fairly boring game, so I don't really care about it, but it was massively popular back in the day, so it makes sense that's the one that gets the marquee.

Well - I mean, it's not like his roar sounds real or anything. It's just three digitized "Gonk Gonk Gonk" noises.

I guess the respective arcades and pizza joints we frequented were very different. Shinobi was a premier title, and every arcade I knew had it, and it spent longer time at the local pizza joints that rotated games through than many other games of the era. I never saw a Golden Axe cab in person until the Mid-2000's at Funspot in NH. I only knew of it as a Sega Master System/Genesis game. Don't get me wrong - it's a fun game. I just didn't think it was that popular that it would warrant a cab all to itself. Also - I guess I'm just not into the Halloweenish color scheme.