Ms. Pac-Man Arcade FPGA - MiSTer Golden Age Perfection! New Year Core Countdown #2

Ms. Pac-Man Arcade FPGA - MiSTer Golden Age Perfection! New Year Core Countdown #2 | SmokeMonster

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4 жыл бұрын

MiSTer has arcade-perfect Ms. Pac-Man and dozens of home ports. Let's take a dive through Pac-History in this Pac-Magnum Opus. MS PACSTRAVAGANZA!
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@SmokeMonster 4 жыл бұрын

Please excuse the stretched aspect ratio, there was no good way for me to dial it in on my capture card unfortunately.

@mjy 4 жыл бұрын

It's one of only a handful of arcade cores that I cannot get to display in the correct aspect ratio. Pac-Man looks perfect with no adjustments. Vertical scanlines look great. On Ms. Pac-Man though, I just cannot figure out if I'm doing something wrong of if there is something coded incorrectly in the core.

@AG-bp3ll 3 жыл бұрын

It was Midway in the US that approved the port not Namco. Namco was not happy about Ms Pac-Man and it took decades for them to accept that game and start putting it in collections.

@senzomcmanus 4 жыл бұрын

So many years of looking for solutions to pcb problems. Now MISTER can run them through a jamma while boards are out for repair. Never without a game! So good ♥️

@SmokeMonster 4 жыл бұрын

Yes, it's the perfect solution :D

@JohnMcLaughlin48 4 жыл бұрын

Well done. Amazing amount of work to put this all together.

@SmokeMonster 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks, it was a huge undertaking

@markbessert1883 4 жыл бұрын

(aka SegaSaga). Nice work Smoke!Your vids lately are on a whole new level. Keep it up!

@SmokeMonster 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Mark :D

@TheGameBeaters 4 жыл бұрын

That was great. Ms Pac-Man is one of my top arcade games and it was very cool to see some of these hacks as well as the different home ports. I don’t have a decent arcade stick for MiSTer yet because I’ve been looking for one that will feel right playing this core. Anyway I knew when I saw you were making this it was going to be a good one. Maybe your best yet. 👍

@SmokeMonster 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! This one was epic because I realized I actually had two full days left here at the end to shoot it. Most videos had to be done in 1 day max, so that was huge :D

@paulfoley9168 4 жыл бұрын

Great video, your best one yet. Learnt: 1) This Mister core is great. 2) Some Ms Pac + Pacman history facts. 3) That I need to track down every single one of them sweet hacks for my very hungry micro sd card :)

@SmokeMonster 4 жыл бұрын

Great list :D

@videogameobsession 4 жыл бұрын

The Tengen NES port is excellent. Much better than Namco's own port. It has many more levels, different sized mazes, 2 player modes, etc.. Similar to the later 16-bit offerings.

@SmokeMonster 4 жыл бұрын

I should have shown that one.

@SameNameDifferentGame 4 жыл бұрын

I am EXTREMELY STOKED for the 7800 port. Fun fact: that hardware was ALSO designed by General Computer, which is part of why the Ms. Pac-Man port is so good.

@SmokeMonster 4 жыл бұрын

Ahh, that makes sense :D

@Colin_Ames 4 жыл бұрын

That was excellent. I didn't realize just how many variations there are of this game.

@SmokeMonster 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks :)

@tbx59 4 жыл бұрын

An elegant, eternal game.

@DaveMcGarry 4 жыл бұрын

This shit is the future... And now we're in 2020 it IS the future. 🕹️

@SmokeMonster 4 жыл бұрын

And the future is better than we imagined ;)

@nathanhardie6124 4 жыл бұрын

It's crazy that Ms. Pac-man is just a rom hack

@SmokeMonster 4 жыл бұрын

I know, it feels like a completely different game engine!

@ceticobr 4 жыл бұрын

I bought a De10 which should arrive January 2nd. The IO board should be here mid January. I can hardly wait.

@SmokeMonster 4 жыл бұрын

You're going to love it :)

@ss4rob 4 жыл бұрын

This arcade core is fantastic! How do you enable the Ms.Pac-Man Speed Hack? This is how I played this game in the arcade for years. Thanks!

@ponscremator9536 4 жыл бұрын

Great to hear about the 7800 core! Is anyone working on Jr Pac, Super Pac, or Pac n’ Pal for Mister?

@SmokeMonster 4 жыл бұрын

Not that I know of, but those are the kind of cores that just seem to show up out of nowhere on MiSTer :)

@evilcrabsitchalways 4 жыл бұрын

Great vid, looking forward to the 7800. To my knowledge it has no flash cart and no rgb mod. It is a left behind console that is an afterthought to most. Funny it could have had a laserdisc addon making picture perfect ports of Dragon's lair and Space Ace. Imagine also Night Trap on the 7800! But that wasn't meant to be and it never came out. FYI if the new 2600 port plays custard's revenge over HDMI she will get the bounty source for fixing the bug. I am now exited about what is to come.

@SmokeMonster 4 жыл бұрын

It's an exciting time :D

@Pitbull0669 4 жыл бұрын

could you do a video on them Im wondering if that could be mounted in in a Arcade Cab? any chance you wanna show how? And thank you :)

@NightSprinter 4 жыл бұрын

Oh, you had a six button pad plugged into the Genesis, didn't ya? Hold down Mode when firing up that port, to be able to actually get around the maze. Was sadly one of those games that didn't like six button pads.

@SmokeMonster 4 жыл бұрын

Ahh, yeah I had issues and just figured it was something on my end. Thanks :)

@NightSprinter 4 жыл бұрын

@@SmokeMonster Any time, man. If a Genesis game ever has issues running on a 6 button pad, just need to hold that one button down when firing it up.

@SmokeMonster 4 жыл бұрын

@@NightSprinter Thanks :)

@SinisterSpatula 4 жыл бұрын

The speed hack is where it's at for me. The diagonals option in the OSD is interesting. Wonder if it works well for 8-way joysticks and preventing wrong inputs.

@SmokeMonster 4 жыл бұрын

Yes, that's exactly what the diagonals option is for :)

@christophhelms4905 4 жыл бұрын

@@SmokeMonster how does it interpret and prioritize up-left for example on an 8 way? Not really sure how this works...

@zeikjt 4 жыл бұрын

@@christophhelms4905 The menu had multiple options: horizontal, vertical, and none. I assume that means you either give one axis priority or you make two inputs cancel out to nothing. EDIT: That or none means that both inputs go through and if the game handles it poorly then so be it.

@evilcrabsitchalways 4 жыл бұрын

I have an 7800 folder an 32x folder waiting for when it can be unleashed. lets see where things go I am exited to see where the MiSTer Project leads.

@SmokeMonster 4 жыл бұрын

I'm ready too :D

@Scorpio1025 4 жыл бұрын

could i use MAME 2010 roms for these arcade cores or do i need a more update version?

@ElegyForTheMasses 4 жыл бұрын

I don’t get sound on Pac-Man or ms Pac-Man cores.

@eduardovelazquez6013 4 жыл бұрын

Does the Mister FPGA not allow save states? I guess if the answer is no it is the big difference between the alternative software emulation raspberry pi. Save states is so convenient with those hardcore retro games.

@SmokeMonster 4 жыл бұрын

MiSTer allows save-states, but few cores have support yet. GBA save-states are coming soon and other cores will follow with time. Raspberry Pi has a 7 year head-start on MiSTer ;)

@finaltheorygames1781 4 жыл бұрын

Is there a PS1 or Sega Saturn core? Love to see that.

@SmokeMonster 4 жыл бұрын

Not yet but PS1 is in the works.

@orbitingdecay6797 4 жыл бұрын

Not sure what I'm doing wrong I've added the rom to the core but no sound. This is my first attempt at the core on an arcade.

@SmokeMonster 4 жыл бұрын

I've heard of a couple people running into this. Your TV might not be compatible with the core's audio. Try another set to confirm.

@orbitingdecay6797 4 жыл бұрын

@@SmokeMonster thank you I will try that out. Another question I have is that there is no option on my MiSTer to define game pad button mapping per core only on the menu upon boot up. Was this feature changed in a recent update?

@christophhelms4905 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for showing all the hacks! How do you enable speedup hack?

@SmokeMonster 4 жыл бұрын

You just load the ROM for it, it's not a menu option or anything :)

@zachcollier 4 жыл бұрын

@@SmokeMonster I can't figure out how to get any of my copies of the mspacmnf.zip to load, or just copy in the pacfast.6f file. I can't get the md5 check to pass. Am I trying to use the wrong kind of ROM? Awesome video series!

@gustos2478 4 жыл бұрын

You brought light to how bad the audio is for this series of ports. pAINfuL with headphones!!

@SmokeMonster 4 жыл бұрын

I had to take them off for Vic-20 and 2600, they're ear-shredding.

@gustos2478 4 жыл бұрын

SmokeMonster I thank you for that!! ;) keep up the good work. I’m 2 bones (cnd) poorer thanks to this series. My de10 is arriving tomorrow!!

@Autumn_Able 4 жыл бұрын

You skipped the Tengen NES version. It added a lot of extra stages. I especially liked the "Strange" stage lineup.

@SmokeMonster 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I should have got that in too.

@mirabilis 4 жыл бұрын

@2:59 No, you want horizontal scanlines in this case.

@SmokeMonster 4 жыл бұрын

Most people will want vertical at home, but horizontal would match the original cabinet.

@mirabilis 4 жыл бұрын

@@SmokeMonster Really? :O People are strange.

@SmokeMonster 4 жыл бұрын

@@mirabilis Guess I'm strange.

@mirabilis 4 жыл бұрын

@@SmokeMonster I wouldn't argue with that. xD

@mikegreiling 4 жыл бұрын

why are the scanlines horizontal?

@SmokeMonster 4 жыл бұрын

I'm weird I guess and like them to look like they do in other games. As I said in the video, you can flip them however you want though if you want the real cabinet look.

@katkillad 4 жыл бұрын

All your videos have been great, but this one especially so and I'm not even the biggest PacMan fan.

@SmokeMonster 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks, I really enjoyed making it. Ms Pac was the last one I shot actually, and I had two full days to do it, unlike the other videos where I was limited to about a day from start to finish.

@UJCammy 4 жыл бұрын

Forgive me if this sounds rude but your Ms. Pac-Man history explanation is wrong. Ms. Pac-Man was licensed by Midway, not Namco. Namco gave their official blessings and were fond of the game, despite the fact that Midway wasn't contractually allowed to develop their own Pac-Man games (they were only allowed to manufacture what Namco developed). Super Pac-Man was Namco's official intended "sequel" to Pac-Man.

@SmokeMonster 4 жыл бұрын

Here's what I'm referencing www.fastcompany.com/3067296/the-mit-dropouts-who-created-ms-pac-man-a-35th-anniversary-oral-history

@BaquePhotography 4 жыл бұрын

You got to mount a CRT sideways properly, dont just stand it up on its side.

@SmokeMonster 4 жыл бұрын

I thought you can just rotate most PVMs?

@AdamsBrew78 3 жыл бұрын

Why is this?

@BaquePhotography 3 жыл бұрын

@@AdamsBrew78 You can crack the neck of the CRT. Vertical monitors have different internal bracing and straps to hold the CRT than a horizontal one.

@AdamsBrew78 3 жыл бұрын

@@BaquePhotography Makes sense. I remember hearing something about that decades ago, but forgot about the particulars. I used to use my original rev-a iMac vertically for arcade emulation. Guess I’m lucky it didn’t break.