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dessgeega · Posts: 3317

Persona-sama wrote:

So how's Bubble Bobble on there?
I never played the arcade version. Is it different from the NES one?

bubble bobble is pretty fantastic. my sister and i played it to the end last night (after unlocking it! grrr).

the arcade version is a bit easier on the eyes, but that's about it. and that one melody they loop endlessly sounds a little better, which is fortunate, because they loop it endlessly.

majestic 12 (the space invaders with the cow abductions) is also great fun.

aderack · Posts: 5018

About options: how does the compilation handle dip switches and things? Credits? Is there an "insert coin" button? An option menu before you boot up each game?

dessgeega · Posts: 3317

aderack wrote:

how does the compilation handle dip switches and things?

disappointingly, not very well. the only switches you can set are for number of lives per credit and (where appropriate) difficulty. refreshingly, there is an "insert coin" button (it defaults to L2).

the options screen appears before you start up the game, and can also be accessed while the game is paused. it just lets you set the lives and difficulty and allows you to remap the controls. you can map a single button to more than one actual controller button, which is nice.

you can make a custom list of games? aside from that, there aren't many frills.

aderack · Posts: 5018

dessgeega wrote:

refreshingly, there is an "insert coin" button (it defaults to L2).

Huh! I'd map it to Select, myself. Just because. You know.

What buttons can you remap to? Only the four faces and shoulders? Or does it accept weird things like R3 and L3, or D-pad (or analog!) directionals?

dessgeega · Posts: 3317

curiously, in my mame setup i have "insert coin" mapped to the L2 button (and "start" to the R2 button).

but yeah, just the shoulder and face buttons.

and no, i have no idea why you'd want to make a custom game list.

hebereke · Posts: 26

Empire seem to be doing a European collection, which includes games from both Japanese volumes, as well as some that weren't on either.

so!

http://play.com/play247.asp?pa=srmr&page=title&r=PS2&title=615790

aderack · Posts: 5018

dessgeega wrote:

but yeah, just the shoulder and face buttons.

Why can't more game be like Silent Hills 1 and 2?

What was the game... Oh, Neo Contra. All I wanted to do was set "X" to fire, and I couldn't. I could only choose from six different control schemes, none of which gave me what I wanted. I DON'T GET IT. Wouldn't it be less work just to allow remapping at will?

dessgeega · Posts: 3317

aderack wrote:

dessgeega wrote:

and no, i have no idea why you'd want to make a custom game list.

What does this even mean? I'm lacking context.

okay, so when you first put the disc in your playstation, you go to "start" and it gives you a menu of games in chronological order. perhaps, though, you find this list too big and would just like the list to contain the five games you play constantly (those would be elevator action returns, darius gaiden, majestic 12, cameltry and the fairyland story).

so you go into the options screen, and put those games into a custom list. then when you go to "start" a menu comes up with just those five games on it, and if you want to play the others you use the L and R buttons to go back to the chronological list.

and that's it.

also, there's no tate mode on anything.

Mister Toups · Posts: 4943

Will someone tell me what tate mode is?

Rud13 · Posts: 3277

sure.

Mister Toups · Posts: 4943

Ah. So it's pronounced "Tah Tay".

As in... bodacious Tate's?

aderack · Posts: 5018

It's Japanese.

Mister Toups · Posts: 4943

Yeah, I gathered.