Togther Retro: Marble Madness

Post by **HOW** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 3:35 pm

Hi there

Thanks for all the post - they were all fantastic.
Loved video of MM2-Marble Man. Had never seen it before.......Now IF you can find me the MAME ROM?

Not had a chance to check all the links on post 3 - But I WILL - Thanks again

PS. I knew about the 99sec time cheat on arcade machines - I guess we'll have to trust ppl not to use it/post scores

Post by **HOW** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 4:22 pm

Checked out your links now - very coooooool. Thanks again.
Just listened to the Daft Punk remix

For anyone wanting the original music 0 far all the levels see below:
http://downloads.khinsider.com/game-sou ... le-madness
(PS. This is an excellent site to get soundtracks from most games

)

Post by **4ppleseed** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 7:37 pm

Not sure what system that music is from, NES? It's not the Arcade.

Pretty good tho

I might give the NES version of MM a blast, just to see if the music matches up.

Post by **Niode** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:17 pm

I'm rolling on the floor right now after watching the GBA review. "Three levels?! THREE LEVELS!?!" and this pearler. "FUCK YOU DSI!!"

Post by **Ivo** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 4:35 am

I recently finished Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced on the GBA (a nice platformer) and it has 3 levels that are Marble Madness inspired. They sucked

The other 2 non-platforming styles they threw in for variety are decent (followed from the 2 styles they had in GBA Crash 1), but these "Atlas sphere" levels are really annoying to control with the D-pad and very hard for time trial. I hope I can get Marble Madness working with the mouse on MAME.

Ivo.

Post by **HOW** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 6:24 am

4ppleseed wrote:Not sure what system that music is from, NES? It's not the Arcade.

Pretty good tho
I might give the NES version of MM a blast, just to see if the music matches up.

I think ya right about music (to confess I didn't listen prior to posting link

) defo NOT arcade - sounds like someone's approximation with a Casio keyboard

Post by **nateup2** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 7:42 am

I remember not getting very far on this when I had it for NES. Now I'm older and emulating the genny version and guess what... this game is still hard as funk!

Anyone satisfied with any non-trackball controllers? It seems like I do better with an analog stick overall, although some angles I am better with the d-pad.

Post by **Ivo** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 9:12 am

I tried playing with a mouse but it doesn't really work. I can't justify spending 20 or 30 bucks on a trackball for this though...

Anyone knows of software that can flip the vertical or horizontal axis of the mouse? That way I could try non-optical mouse on it's back as a trackball.

Ivo.

Post by **nateup2** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 9:16 am

yeah I was wondering about that too

Post by **HOW** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 6:48 pm

Ivo wrote:I tried playing with a mouse but it doesn't really work. I can't justify spending 20 or 30 bucks on a trackball for this though...

Anyone knows of software that can flip the vertical or horizontal axis of the mouse? That way I could try non-optical mouse on it's back as a trackball.

Ivo.

I 'think' you can reverse the axis of controllers on MAME. I know you can defo flip the vert axis (I do it for playing original Star Wars arcade) - & you 'may' be able to flip horizontal as well - not 100% sure though.