MAME - TV Plug and Play units

negative1 · January 21, 2020

These have been added to MAME awhile ago, but I think the emulation has gotten to a much better playable state now,

as of the 0.217 version.

I finally decided to try out the games, and am happy to report, most work pretty well, and are fun to play.

I'm going to stick the Arcade ports, and versions here, because those are the ones I know the best.

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JAKKS Namco

Capcom

Taito

Not interested in the Genesis, Atari, etc, as there are other emulators that do those.

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The JAKKS ones are interesting, because some of the games are ports, and some look like the arcade versions

but don't sound or play like them.

First of all, a huge resource of all the different games, and some variations:

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https://mamedev.emulab.it/haze/2019-writeup/

Videos:

https://www.youtube.com/user/ShootBoomBoom/search?query=plug

I will highlight some of them further:

Here's Dig Dug, which scrolls down, since they wanted to keep the resolution

accurate. It doesn't affect gameplay. I've played it to 1,000,000 and the patterns

still work.

The sound effect and colors are off, but that's about it:

later

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negative1 · January 21, 2020

Here is information on the Jakks Dig Dug:

Namco Plug N play - Dig Dug
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This gamekey version is the one mostly used on
all the JAKKS plug n play games.

Version : MAME 0.217
game : Jakks Dig Dug gamekey
OS : windows 8.1 /64bit
controller : Sega Saturn Joystick through USB

Some Differences in MAME
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1 color for fruits innacurate or wrong
2 sound might be off

Differences in the Gamekey vs arcade
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1 Screen is cropped, and scrolls to
preserve aspect ratio

2 Timing is slightly off

3 Maximum extra men shown is 5, but you
accumulate them as normal

4 Game settings are extra at 20k, 60k, +60k after

which is different from the usual 40k.

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Otherwise its a very good version of Dig Dug
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1 Patterns work
2 Response is good

Used a savestate near 1,000,000 to continue
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Video shows bootup, and
0:00 - 9:16 - First 13 levels - 114k

Time Level Score Notes
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9:17 - 11:09 - Round 28 - 30 - 410k
11:13 - 13:47 Round 66 - 68 Gameplay up to 999,990 and quit
13:48 - 17:14 Round 67 - 73 Gameplay after 1,000,000 - 1,115,180

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Will check out the killscreen (256) at somepoint, don't think
this version has the slow boards.

later
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negative1 · January 21, 2020

Some good information about the Plug and Play can be found here:

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Here's the Ms. Pac Man info:

http://adb.arcadeitalia.net/dettaglio_mame.php?game_name=jak_mpac&search_id=4

Romset e nome:

JAK_MPAC Ms. Pac-Man 5-in-1 (Ms. Pac-Man, Pole Position, Galaga, Xevious, Mappy) (JAKKS Pacific TV Game, Game-Key Ready) (07 FEB 2005 A SKU F)

Produttore:

JAKKS Pacific Inc / Namco / HotGen Ltd

altri giochi

Anno:

2005

altri giochi

Genere:

Palmare

altri giochi

Categoria:

Palmare / Gioco TV Plug 'n play

Dedicated Console published 14 years ago:

Ms. Pac-Man 5-in-1 © 2005 Jakks Pacific, Inc.

0.207 [Sean Riddle, Peter Wilhelmsen, anonymous]
Ms. Pac-Man 5-in-1 (Ms. Pac-Man, Pole Position, Galaga, Xevious, Mappy) (JAKKS Pacific TV Game, Game-Key Ready) (07 FEB 2005 A SKU F), JAKKS Pacific Inc / Namco / HotGen Ltd, 2005
<No certified information found. If you have info on this machine, please contact us!>

DRIVER STATUS
Emulation: Good
Color: Good
Sound: Imperfect
Graphics: Imperfect
Save State: Unsupported

later

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Swami · January 23, 2020

On 1/21/2020 at 4:56 PM, negative1 said:

Some good information about the Plug and Play can be found here:

==================

Here's the Ms. Pac Man info:

http://adb.arcadeitalia.net/dettaglio_mame.php?game_name=jak_mpac&search_id=4

Romset e nome:

JAK_MPAC Ms. Pac-Man 5-in-1 (Ms. Pac-Man, Pole Position, Galaga, Xevious, Mappy) (JAKKS Pacific TV Game, Game-Key Ready) (07 FEB 2005 A SKU F)

Produttore:

JAKKS Pacific Inc / Namco / HotGen Ltd
altri giochi

Anno:

2005
altri giochi

Genere:

Palmare
altri giochi

Categoria:

Palmare / Gioco TV Plug 'n play

Dedicated Console published 14 years ago:

Ms. Pac-Man 5-in-1 © 2005 Jakks Pacific, Inc.

0.207 [Sean Riddle, Peter Wilhelmsen, anonymous]
Ms. Pac-Man 5-in-1 (Ms. Pac-Man, Pole Position, Galaga, Xevious, Mappy) (JAKKS Pacific TV Game, Game-Key Ready) (07 FEB 2005 A SKU F), JAKKS Pacific Inc / Namco / HotGen Ltd, 2005
<No certified information found. If you have info on this machine, please contact us!>

DRIVER STATUS
Emulation: Good
Color: Good
Sound: Imperfect
Graphics: Imperfect
Save State: Unsupported

later

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Is this the point they are at so far or have they done others, such as the Star Wars ones? There were the joystick ones like the millennium falcon and the prequel ones that had PlayStation like ones with Darth Vader and Yoda with the game key.

negative1 · January 23, 2020

Next UP : Lets TV Play Classic - Namco Nostalgia 1:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let's!_TV_Play_Classic

Namco Nostalgia 1[edit]

Xevious
Mappy
Xevious: Scramble Mission - In Scramble Mission the Solvalou ship flies through a futuristic fortress that has technological obstacles that the player must dodge, and at the end of each level they must blow up a boss similar to GAMP, under a time limit.
Mappy: Revenge of Nyamco - A game similar to Breakout where the player controls two Meowkies at the bottom of the screen who are moving a trampoline and catching Nyamco. Nyamco is attempting to bounce up and break blocks to obtain the items Mappy took from him in the previous game.

Here is information on the Lets TV play Classic
Namco Nostalgia 1:

Namco 1 - Mappy

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This is the first Namco release with Mappy,
and Xevious Featured
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Version : MAME 0.217
game : Namco Nostalgia 1 - Mappy, Mappy : Revenge of Nyamco
OS : windows 8.1 /64bit
controller : Sega Saturn Joystick through USB

There is slighty music variations, and some
missing elements.

The Revenge of Nyamco is an exclusive
arkanoid/ breakout clone. That includes
the sprites from the Mappy game.

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Gameplay

Mappy : - 00:14 - 03:40 - 2 levels

Mappy : Revenge of Nyamco - 03:41 - 07:13 - 2 levels
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negative1 · January 23, 2020

About the JAKKS Dig Dug, played it some more,

and it turns out to be interesting.

Levels 136-255 - It Includes the 'slow waves'.

On level 256, the killscreen, it shows it, and then bypasses it,

causing the levels to cycle back to 1 again. Which is their fix for it. Very odd, and it gives you and extra man.

later

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negative1 · January 23, 2020

Here are MameHaze Namco Nostalgia 1 videos:

Next up Nostalgia 2.

later

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Swami · January 23, 2020

I did find the Jakks Pacific Revenge of the Sith Plug and Play with the five standard games, but they seem to have forgotten the two extra Game Key games: Catamaran Strike & Coruscant Fire Patrol.

negative1 · January 23, 2020

2 minutes ago, Swami said:

I did find the Jakks Pacific Revenge of the Sith Plug and Play with the five standard games, but they seem to have forgotten the two extra Game Key games: Catamaran Strike & Coruscant Fire Patrol.

Or maybe they don't have the dumps of those yet.

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negative1 · February 5, 2020

an earlier version of the pac-man and bosconian plug and play key:

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Swami · February 10, 2020

On 2/4/2020 at 8:56 PM, negative1 said:

an earlier version of the pac-man and bosconian plug and play key:

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Thanks. Interesting find.

negative1 · February 21, 2020

mortal kombat is coming to mame 0.219,

A port of the game to SunPlus hardware, code appears to be based on / ported from the arcade version, not any of the existing home ports. This was released in 'with blood' and 'no blood' versions, which is controlled by a solder pad on the game PCB. A 2 Player feature required connecting 2 pads together (not emulated)

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negative1 · February 23, 2020

On 1/23/2020 at 12:11 AM, Swami said:

I did find the Jakks Pacific Revenge of the Sith Plug and Play with the five standard games, but they seem to have forgotten the two extra Game Key games: Catamaran Strike & Coruscant Fire Patrol.

Update on these:

"Final JAKKS GameKey

JAKKS Pacific Namco 2-in-1 Pac-Man + Bosconian Gamekey ( https://youtu.be/Bd1NQHR3LYY )

This was the only known, but undumped JAKKS GameKey. I’ve had a lot of people ask me to add the ‘other’ Star Wars one (Catamaran Strike/Coruscant Fire Patrol) but that’s not going to happen as it was never released outside of artwork sent to the press, so obtaining it is simply impossible.

This Namco key is less common than the other 2, but ultimately pointless to own because the other version of the same key has Rally-X added, which is actually an exclusive as JAKKS never used that version of Rally-X again. Still, it's good to be able to document what should be the full set of them."

Full news about Plug and Plays here:

later

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Swami · February 23, 2020

10 minutes ago, negative1 said:

Update on these:

"Final JAKKS GameKey

JAKKS Pacific Namco 2-in-1 Pac-Man + Bosconian Gamekey ( https://youtu.be/Bd1NQHR3LYY )

This was the only known, but undumped JAKKS GameKey. I’ve had a lot of people ask me to add the ‘other’ Star Wars one (Catamaran Strike/Coruscant Fire Patrol) but that’s not going to happen as it was never released outside of artwork sent to the press, so obtaining it is simply impossible.

I must have gotten the names wrong in my google search. The games on the extra game key I have are "Yoda's Escape" and "Turret Defense". I see them listed as working, but haven't found the actual roms yet (only looked a few minutes, so far).

Swami · March 1, 2020

On 2/22/2020 at 6:26 PM, negative1 said:

Update on these:

"Final JAKKS GameKey

JAKKS Pacific Namco 2-in-1 Pac-Man + Bosconian Gamekey ( https://youtu.be/Bd1NQHR3LYY )

This was the only known, but undumped JAKKS GameKey. I’ve had a lot of people ask me to add the ‘other’ Star Wars one (Catamaran Strike/Coruscant Fire Patrol) but that’s not going to happen as it was never released outside of artwork sent to the press, so obtaining it is simply impossible.

This Namco key is less common than the other 2, but ultimately pointless to own because the other version of the same key has Rally-X added, which is actually an exclusive as JAKKS never used that version of Rally-X again. Still, it's good to be able to document what should be the full set of them."

Full news about Plug and Plays here:

later

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Strange. I find the "tdyoda.zip" (turret defense and yoda's escape gamekey) listed in text files as working on github sites and at link below (no roms available there, just MAME itself), but not in rom sets up to 0.218. Guess I'll just wait up for it to turn up somewhere.

http://adb.arcadeitalia.net/dettaglio_mess.php?software_name=tdyoda&software_list=jakks_gamekey_sw&search_id=

Swami · November 13, 2020

On 2/29/2020 at 7:19 PM, Swami said:

Strange. I find the "tdyoda.zip" (turret defense and yoda's escape gamekey) listed in text files as working on github sites and at link below (no roms available there, just MAME itself), but not in rom sets up to 0.218. Guess I'll just wait up for it to turn up somewhere.

http://adb.arcadeitalia.net/dettaglio_mess.php?software_name=tdyoda&software_list=jakks_gamekey_sw&search_id=

I did eventually find the well hidden tdyoda.zip file. It is in something called the SL folder for 0.206. Not snap_SL or Title_SL, just SL. I already have the Sith PnP and the gamekey, but really wanted to use them with my analog joystick. Turret Defense gets a little repetitive and is more endurance. Yoda's Escape is a bit like Mario with a Light Saber.