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Playing Pac-Land for Famicom, extracted from the Steam version of Namco Museum Archives Volume 2 with MArchiveBatchTool and played in Mesen!
The graphics are shockingly shrunk or simplified from the arcade version but they kept the crazy control scheme which freaked me out at first but within minutes I was waggling the stick to jump and pounding the buttons to run R/L and screaming and feeling kind of like is this where I have a heart attack and having a great old time. I got way farther than I ever remember getting in the arcade version (bout 1/2way according to a walkthrough video I checked) I mean yeah save-scumming 'cause Mesen had no cheats ; D but the checkpoints are pretty generous and sometimes even move you FORWARd and also bits are cut out like in the very first stage you don't even get to SEE the fairy queen THAT sUCKS and you wouldn't even know you had the flyin' boots but you only have to go like a half-screen back toward town and then it suddenly kicks you forward to a new stage I don't think I ever saw in the arcade version because I never got anywhere (checked: that one doesn't show up until stage 7 in arcade). Anyway I eventually quit because you keep repeating mostly the same stages but sometimes going L instead and they just fill them with more ghosts bombing more baby ghosts at you and it was getting TOO SCaRY also it was bedtime
I probably wouldn't like this nearly as much on a pad as on the arcade stick; during set-up I was playing on keyboard and that wasn't very fun : P; on the other --hand--, all that stick-bashing probably not great for my dumb old shoulder oh well
Note to self: yes waggle the stick to glide off the springboards, clear the pool & feel amazing
My bit of Pac-Land in Pac-Man Museum+ (PS4): https://youtu.be/JfyJG7Z-Exs?t=5609 (no continues or save-scumming available there though!! also the controls are reversed so it's sort of easier and more "normal" but way less fun, no longer having that frantic Track & Field button-bashing feel, instead you have to double-tap the stick to run 'p')
I should have used Mesen's overscan settings to cut off the game's large top and bottom borders.
Pac-Land pre-dated and inspired Super Mario Bros. |
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| | | | Uh I mean Pac-Land arcade version of course! |
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| | | | Should have said "waggle the stick to glide DOWN FROM springboards, clear the pool & feel amazing" 'cause first you gotta hit the stick while on the springboard to uh spring off the board. |
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| | | | Control is the same as the default control in PS1 Namco Museum Vol. 4 (see entry 180): tap B to run L, tab A to run R, stick L or R to jump, waggle stick for max air time after springing from springboard. |
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