Midway collection

[atomic tofu]

yo!!!!

I swung by Best Buy and was hunkering to try and find a nice pinball game...couldn't really find any. Only 1 and it wasn't nice enough

Anyhow...my eyes go over to Midway Arcade Treasures Deluxe Edition.

Now I've always wanted to get various compilations like this but could never tell what "version" these ports were.

I want the ARCADE experience...not some console port to the pc. That said...does anybody know about this pack? Is it arcade faithful or is it a SNES conversion?

gaahhh, I must scour the net to find the info, which I doubt I'll find.

EDIT: waah...reviews don't look too hot, hehe. It was only $10 but I may just return it if so many are dissatisfied with a compilation pack of a bunch of games.

For any future purchasers, some or all are console conversions and none maybe be actual arcade ports...you know, rom to custom emu, etc.

I will add as I inform myself so hopefully it'll be helpful to others

 

[atomic tofu]

hmm

reading around reading around...

seems like this package might be more faithful than originally thought. I checked sites of the people who made it and what I can tell is...

a couple games were ported from the Dreamcast versions and the rest are arcade emulated.

$10 bucks I actually might stick with it. I just hope such an emulated set of games will work on Vista no sweat.

Mortal Kombat!!!!!

 

[atomic tofu]

stop all who may be somewhat curious on this pack

This package uses Starforce copy protection schemes

OK

so it's only $10 for 29 games. I made the plunge to open the software and install, which is no big deal. The games actually all work.

Now, I could have gone the non commercial emulation route and they can often times make these games look better with the blitters they use to create scanlines.

That said, I often buy these to give money to the people that made them. So I do what Ido...

I believe though I have the option of returning this, opened, due to the starforce thing, but I'm viewing I should keep it. Maybe starforce isn't all that bad. Maybe it's some piracy groups trying to get at them. Maybe they realized a past mistake and are trying to correct it. I'm not sure.

But I think I'll stick with it. For anyone out there thinking about this...well, it's basically Treasures 2 and 3 buncled. Luckily, the runtimes of treasures 2 don't actually have starforce integrated properly, so you can actually run them without it. Treasures 3 does though...sadly, treasures 3 is more up to date and modern in terms of graphics and the like, but I'm less interested in them. hehe

sigh....starforce.

 

[lancec2c30]

sorry but what exactly is starforce? is it some copyright protection that interferes with load times and stuff??

 

[atomic tofu]

yes...and no

With something like this, I have to be as objective as I can:

http://www.boycottstarforce.net/?page_id=5

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarForce


In this case though, I'd say it does interfere. As these games exist and can run from the harddrive when installed but Starforce requires a cd check...which people hate, legit ones mostly

 

[lancec2c30]

sounds like a great idea, keep a couple of people from pirating games and F up ev erybodies computers. LOL