| | | Extracted from Steam's Arcade Game Series: Ms. Pac-Man (see entry 1497) and running in ~current MAME 0.254.
Extracted with the Game Extraction Toolbox https://github.com/shawngmc/game-extraction-toolbox -- it's a Python script; I ended up using Windows Python but I think probably I could have used MSYS2 or WSL Python (which I also installed).
So it's basically
py -m pip install --user pipx
py -m pipx ensurepath
pipx install game-extraction-toolbox
gextoolbox tasks extract --task ags_mspacman --destdir ./ |
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| | | Command line like
C:\downloaded\mame0254\mame.exe mspacmab -waitvsync -nofilter -volume -10 |
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| | | And of course I then immediately find another command parameter: "-autosave" makes a save state automatically when you quit, in effect keeping your high score saved--because old games like this I guess didn't save anything, when the power went off, all the records went with it.
C:\downloaded\mame0254\mame.exe mspacmab -waitvsync -nofilter -autosave -volume -10 |
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| | | Python for Windows from https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/
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| | | | Taking vsync out of the command line. ^ _^ I'd thought I'd needed it for recording games well but doesn't seem to be the case, at least for the ones I've checked now; and they're mostly noticeably more responsive with it off, whee! : ) |
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At some point I hope I can come to terms with that the fact that I'm never going to want to put significantly more time into any of these action puzzle games so there's no danger that I'll ever get significantly better at them, so I may as well just chill out and enjoy them for the occasional changes of pace that they are rather than fretting about the whole thing. ; )
But no I just stress about points. : PP
You get the first stage/life being purple if you insert a credit on the marquee attract screen, where it first says "MS PAC-MAN," before any ghost appears. Found it discussed here https://forums.arcade-museum.com/threads/ms-pacman-purple-maze-question.75547/ referencing game code discussed here http://donhodges.com/ms_pacman_bugs.htm . |
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| | | | I tried making my own "Turbo" Ms. Pac-Man by launching the game with "-speed 1.5" in the command line--but the speed resets to normal when you eat a power pellet. And the sounds pitch-shift and sound gross, and continue sounding gross even after the speed resets from a power pellet. ; ) |
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My previous high score--set last time I played, in September--was 44970, so I just edged it out, whoop whoop! ^ _^
I guess they're probably pears. = P |
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