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    The My Arcade Namco and Data East cabinets based on FC/NES games look cool, but I read somewhere that a couple of them have input lag and Galaga has sound issues. I also have the actual carts for most of these games (even the JP only namco FC ones like Dig Dug, Mappy, and Galaxian).

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    Just to be complete, you might want to mention the very first attempt to make a truer Pac-Man port. I may have the details wrong and please correct me if I am, but Ebivision made a test version for one of the conventions. It wasn't complete, but playable and much better than the original Atari version. As I understand, he got spooked about possible C&D letters, so decided to put just enough a twist on it to make it different... that turned out to be Pesco.

     

    I think the ROM from Ebivision is still floating around someplace, but the code was not re-used for any of the other versions of Pac-Man out there.

    The ebivision Pac-Man got hacked into Hack 'Em and Ms. Hack 'Em, so in a way, the code was reused.

  3. Posted · Edited by BrianC

    MGA and Excalibur did use Nintendo's technology under license for those color Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, and Frogger handhelds and tabletops, but they aren't as well made. There's also that space invaders head to head "color" LCD game that was licensed to Radio Shack and Excalibur. The packaging had small text that said the technology was licensed by Nintendo. I actually have that Snoopy game, but in the Tabletop version, which is the same game. I prefer the tabletops since the batteries last longer, but the DK Jr. panoramic handheld I have is neat.

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    The switch controller is perfect for game and watch style games. I liked the 3DS games and the GB, GBC, GBA, and DS collections. There were some licensed keychain handhelds of a few of the games for awhile. I also have a few of the actual handhelds and table tops. DK handheld is good stuff and a prefer it over Coleco's VFD version.

  5. Posted · Edited by BrianC

    Ms. Pac-Man non-Walmart and Tetris are both segmented LCD. Not sure if it was mentioned before, but that version of Frogger on the Walmart joystick was in a Majesco plug and play and on the VG Pocket Tablet. It's a port based on NOAC hardware. The older version has music closer to the original, but the music was changed in the later versions due to using music from various anime like rascal the racoon. It's also why most newer ports have different music, though I prefer the music in the GBA Arcade Advance Frogger and the Basic Fun Frogger to the music in the Super Impulse Tiny Arcade Frogger.

  9. Posted · Edited by BrianC

    Namcot was the name for Namco's home division in Japan. The odd thing is that seems to be the arcade version of the music rather than FC, but the graphics in the video and the "Namcot" are a reference to the Famicom. The characters are dancing on top of Namco Famicom cart.

  12. Posted · Edited by BrianC

    No Arcade counterpart, but I like Diner much better than Peter Pepper's Ice Cream Factory. I'm tempted to say the Blue Sky Rangers did Burgertime sequels better than Data East, but I haven't played Super Burgertime (the AC one) and the GB Burgertime Deluxe is extremely good.

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    Lobo was supposed to be released in 1996 by Ocean, but ended up being canned. Probably because in 1996, the market for 16 bit games was diminishing, and that the game was pretty crap.

     

    No, the real reason it was cancelled is because Lobo played it and caused a mess over it. No bad games for "the main man".

  16. Posted · Edited by BrianC

    There was also a quiet update to the first post of the "Latest Harmony Cart Software" thread with the 1.06 bios at the bottom of the post. The date the post was updated (October 2015) is also later than the date listed for the 1.06 beta 2 (Sep 2014).

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  17. Posted · Edited by BrianC

    Asteroids - asteroids mostly move up and down not left ,right ,and diagonally like the arcade

     

    It has been redone as Meteoroids (Starpath prototype) and Space Rocks, both of which have Asteroid movement closer to the arcade.

     

    I would like to see a better version of Star Raiders since the original port wasn't close to the original.

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    Some of the ROMs of the prototype are labeled as PAL because of the unstable display, but from what I read and tried on Harmony, I'm more under the impression that the game is unstable simply because it's unfinished. When I play on Harmony, colors seem to be correct, but the game flips after the title screen.

  20. Posted · Edited by BrianC

    I'm not sure if the Gleen the 5200 Man one supports the trackball, but there was another hack of the 5200 version to Atari 800 that definitely supports it. Not sure if there's a hack based off the original 800 version that supports TB, but the 5200 version is better anyway.

     

    Here's a post with a 5200 conversion for Atari 800 of Centipede with trackball support.

  24. Posted · Edited by BrianC

    Megaman (any version) is already balls hard, why anyone wants to play on difficult setting is beyond me.

     

    That's a huge overstatement. Most games in the series aren't all that hard (and I have beat a few games in the series, including 2 on difficult). Megaman 2 is one of the easier games in the series, even on "difficult". Difficult is the original difficulty and is still fairly easy. Not to mention the comparison timing is off due to one version not using the same difficulty.

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