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  5. Posted · Edited by BrianC

    For GG stuff, there's a nice port of Pengo, the two GG Shinobis, and two GG Alestes. The latter four games are GG exculsives rather than ports. GG Shinobis feel like a combination of Mega Man and Revenge of Shinobi (aka Super Shinobi) with a stage select and multiple ninjas to play as with different abilities.

     

    I have the Pac-Man collection on cart. Very impressive ports, especially on a stock CV.

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  6. Posted · Edited by BrianC

    The light phaser support is on a game by game basis. Wanted won't even play on a JP SMS becuase it doesn't work when it detects FM. It will play on a US Genesis with region switch mod in JP mode with the light phaser. If I remember correctly, Missile Defense 3D, Rescue Mission, and Safari Hunt won't detect the gun on a JP SMS, but Gangster Town and Rambo III will.

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    I have the Tiny Arcade Frogger. The music isn't as good as in other versions, but it plays very well. One oddity is that the otter often stays in one place and the snake often moves over water. As far as I can tell, the snake's tail can be ridden on, but the snake is small is this version. Also, when playing Frogger on Xbox 360 and Mame, I noticed some input drops and occasional slowdowns when in the top row, mostly when near the edge of the screen. Does this happen on the real arcade machine?

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    Why do the boxes say Colecovision. What the hell has that got to do with anything??

     

    Yeah. that is perplexing. Also, Rainbow Brite seems to be either NES emulation or NES on a chip and the other is the GBA Robotech game. I heard mixed things about the latter game, a strange choice for a single game mini cab.

  15. Posted · Edited by BrianC

    Except the game uses a vertical screen (though I agree the images are too big and don't make the best use of space like Coleco's Galaxian does, though, yeah, waste of vertical screen by using a square space for the graphics), isn't VFD (it's colorized backlit LCD), and uses music from the AC version. At least they attempted the two ships and bonus rounds. I found Q*Bert, Frogger, and Ms. Pac-Man segmented versions to be quite fun and I find them more, not less impressive because of the limitations of the segmented LCD (their Pac-Man isn't too hot, though). I disagree with the sentiment that old style LCD games are out of place in 2019 and personally find it disapointing to see such a comment since these games can be fun in their own right (I'm actually liking the segmented Ms. Pac-Man better that what I played of fully animated version. No slowdown of ghosts in tunnels in the walmart one, which can be quite frustrating at times).

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  16. Posted · Edited by BrianC

    sure, no problem.

     

    one update on the ms pac man VFD, the joystick is on the far left, NOT in the middle which

    is unfortunate, because that's not very comfortable.

     

    later

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    Odd, my Ms. Pac-Man is just like the one in the picture with the joystick in the middle. I saw a video on YouTube of the segmented LCD Galaga. Looks promising. Bonus rounds and ship capture intact.

  17. Posted · Edited by BrianC

    I've never tried out Rolling Thunder FC release, I probably should since I can (hidefnes kit in my system) and an everdrive too. My Arcade isn't going to do anything over a stock NOAC and if that thing happens to support it, then sure, but I wouldn't bet on it. The best NOAC I know of is years old, the FC Mobile 88, and it does support extended mappers in part, just not all of them. I know some Namco mappers work, and some do not because I've got physical carts that will work or fail on the thing. VRC2/4 works but VRC6(Castlevania 3) doesn't, and Splatterhouse uses one and works, but Final Lap FC is another namco chip and it's a black screen (as it was with yokai dochuki too.)

    I'm talking about an extra sound chip on the cart, not just an extended mapper. Out of the games you mentioned, only Akumajo Densetsu (CVIII), Final Lap, and Yokai Dochuki have an extra sound chip. That's different behavior when I tried sound chip games on the top loading NES with an adapter. The games played with missing sound channels rather than not playing at all.

  18. Posted · Edited by BrianC

    Well I did want Rolling Thunder, now I don't. I'm not going to get sucked into some scalper frenzy to have someone demand 3-4x the price on ebay because they can get there first. Limited and numbered these days serves no one but the scalper.

    I'm also less interested becuase the FC version has a special sound chip and has better sound than the NES version. I don't expect My Arcade to add a sound chip to their NES on a chip. I expect my arcade to either use the US Tengen version or the FC version with missing sound channels. However, the FC Rolling Thunder is a great version in its own right.

  21. Posted · Edited by BrianC

    I'm under the impression that the EU Tengen SMS games, including Ms. Pac-Man and Klax, were published by Domark (their name is on the back of the box, afaik) and programmed by EU developers.

     

    Pro Yakyuu Pennant Race is the JP counterpart of Great Baseball, not a Namco game. The batting view is the same, though the fielding perspective is different. Yakyuu is the Japanese word for baseball. Pro Yakyuu is not something trademarked by namco. It's used in games from other companies too. On other systems and AC, the namco baseball games are called World Stadium, though there's a Megadrive baseball game named Yuukai Douchiki (sp?) which is a basball spinoff on Youkai Douchiki (sp?).

     

    The toned down SMS port of Wonderboy in Monster World was not programmed by Westone. The only SMS Wonder Boy game they worked on is Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap.

     

    I was under the impression that the only the Atari 800 disk version of Montezuma's Revenge was programmed by Utopia. Wikipedia claims thta Microsmiths did the port, but I take wikipedia with a grain of salt.

     

    edit: The back of Klax says it was published by Tengen with sales and marketing handled by Domark.

  22. Posted · Edited by BrianC

    Glad to see the MSX version covered. Too bad there weren't more JP ports of the game. I'm glad Hamster's Arcade Archives series has it. I love playing it on Switch. Original JP AC version spells Continue as "Countinue" on the continue screen.

     

    I have the Atari 2600 and Atari 800 versions on cart and like them quite a bit. Funny thing about the A800 version is that it still has the symbols of the 5200 controller shown on the menu screen.

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  23. Posted

    If you know what normal "My Arcade" d-pads are like, the split button setup is a godsend.

     

    The dpad on those mini arcade things actually works better with the joystick on, which makes no sense at all. It's too mushy when used as a dpad. It's actually not the worst dpad I have used and the games still play well (especially the ones with left and right movement like Mappy, Galaga, and Galaxian), but it could have been better. Not sure about their other devices, but I wouldn't be surprised if they weren't great.

  24. Posted · Edited by BrianC

    I did like a few of their official licensed mini arcades, but most of their stuff is a bit kitschy. This only has buttons as a dpad to copy switch, not for any practical reason like being able to use one side of a controller as a separate controller. Reminds me of that thing that resembles a Game and Watch handheld (made by Lexibook, not My Arcade).

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