Arcade Games with Sound or Music in Attract Mode

[nesjess]

Wait a minute, just the HSS kits give you attract sounds? All of the Ninty ones?

Yeah. It's part of the kits. As you know, MB and Popeye already have attract mode. DK and DK Jr kits have attract mode as an option. You don't even need to buy the D2K Kit, you can just order just HS Kit part, but it's worth paying a little extra for the D2K feature IMO.

 

[Scucci]

Yeah I mentioned that in the first post of the thread. I hate to say it but it gets quite annoying too.

Sorry about, like I said... I just skimmed.

Was Food Fight mentioned yet? Knowing my luck... probably.

 

[Phetishboy]

Yeah. It's part of the kits. As you know, MB and Popeye already have attract mode. DK and DK Jr kits have attract mode as an option. You don't even need to buy the D2K Kit, you can just order just HS Kit part, but it's worth paying a little extra for the D2K feature IMO.

MB has attract sounds? Or just attract mode with video?

 

[nesjess]

MB has attract sounds? Or just attract mode with video?

Sorry, I meant attract sounds, not mode. I haven't turned MB on since taking it apart months ago, but I thought it had attract sounds. Come to think of it, I don't think it does. Though Popeye does and yes, the intro music at the title screen is very annoying. When I had Popeye, I turned it off.

 

[MasterFygar]

Virtual On plays an awesome song and talks in a freaky voice

 

[CrazyKongFan]

and Crazy Kong also.

Only Crazy Kong Part 2 (from Falcon, and one or two others that bootlegged it by removing the Falcon logo/name) All the other versions don't have the cage scene that has the sounds. Another one not mentioned is Gaplus/Galaga 3.

 

[jow]

Once you have your Punch Out going, that will have attract music...

 

[smello]

That really sucks. DKJR would be cool with attract mode sounds too. Wonder if I could isolate specific game sounds from those ambiance CD's, record them to loop cassettes, then install cassette players in all my games running off the 12V line. Wow, what a lot of work.

How do you stop it once you play? Have the coin land on top of the stop button...

 

[Phetishboy]

How do you stop it once you play? Have the coin land on top of the stop button...

Brilliant!! Maybe a Fitty Cent piece would work better as it is much heavier. Time to modify all my coin mechs. Man, can you imagine if Arcade games would have had Fitty cent Piece mechs? How sweet. I always liked the Fitty Cent piece, and the US Mint would been kept busy too.

 

[TheShanMan]

My pin and Defender have SBA slots. Wasn't good enough to keep the mint making them.

 

[Phetishboy]

My pin and Defender have SBA slots. Wasn't good enough to keep the mint making them.

Nobody liked the Susan B's, but 50 cent pieces are legend. Almost as big and heavy as a silver dollar. I used to collect the bicentennial ones.

 

[YellowDog]

Back to thread:
Games that have Attract Mode Sound:
XyBots
Commando
Joust 2
Black Knight (pinball)
Bubble Bobble
Galaga
Time Pilot

Most JAMMA boards have a dip switch setting to turn attract sound on.
Smash TV
Karnov
Gate of Doom
Gal's Panic
Gal's Panic II
TMNT

Games that do not:
Defender
Stargate
Robotron
Joust
Bubbles
Mystic Marathon
TacScan
Centipede
Galaxian


For more info you can check out the archives at: http://www.mikesarcade.com/cgi-bin/spies.cgi?action=info. There are a ton of games with the switch settings. The ones above were just the ones that I had manuals available for.

ken

 

[seanriddle]

Back to thread:
Games that do not:
Joust
ken

A couple of people have emailed me asking if I could enable attract mode sounds for Williams' games, so I spent a few hours looking through Joust's code hoping I could find an attract mode check that could be NOPed out, but I came up empty. I still think there must be a way to do it. Some day I'll check again and see if I missed something.
Sean

 

[Scucci]

A couple of people have emailed me asking if I could enable attract mode sounds for Williams' games, so I spent a few hours looking through Joust's code hoping I could find an attract mode check that could be NOPed out, but I came up empty. I still think there must be a way to do it. Some day I'll check again and see if I missed something.
Sean

Meh, just push the test switch on the sound boards... it's not a pretty sound, but it's a sound... gotta count for something.

 

[ScumBum]

Games that do not:
Defender
Stargate
Robotron
Joust
Bubbles
Mystic Marathon
TacScan
Centipede
Galaxian

How about ,

Asteroids Deluxe
MsPacman/Pacman

 

[GaryMcT]

I'll have to look for the Tempest dip switch to turn that on. DK if you have the D2K/HSS kit. Mappy. I think Spy Hunter but I haven't tried to enable it yet so I could be wrong.

You could also add Arcade Ambience mp3's to your game room set up. I'm planning to do that.

I have hours of surround sound recordings from Ground Kontrol if anyone wants to do something with them. I haven't had a chance.

 

[GaryMcT]

How about ,

Asteroids Deluxe
MsPacman/Pacman

Those are definitely correct.

From what I can tell these don't have attract mode sound:
Mario Bros (needs the HS kit to enable)
Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man (been thinking about trying to do this hack.)
Robotron
Defender
Joust
Asteroids Deluxe
Omega Race
Centipede

Pretty much all the machines that I have and some boards that I have don't have attract mode sound, which is a bummer. I'm getting the HS kit for Mario so that it does.

I'm not sure about Galaga 88. . I'll check that tonight to see if there is a setting.

 

[Hyde]

Swimmer has attract mode sounds.

So do Time Soldiers and Assault. But those two came after 1985.

 

[Grey]

Actually, I think those two don't - just went to www.crazykong.com and looked at dipswitch settings.

I don't know if somebody corrected this later in the thread but my DKJr has Attract Mode sounds.

 

[YellowDog]

A couple of people have emailed me asking if I could enable attract mode sounds for Williams' games, so I spent a few hours looking through Joust's code hoping I could find an attract mode check that could be NOPed out, but I came up empty. I still think there must be a way to do it. Some day I'll check again and see if I missed something.
Sean

With the exception of the 1812 Overture in Robotron, the sounds in most Williams games would get really annoying quickly. Hearing the pteradactyl from Joust every few seconds would be bad. Trust me. When BFD was working on the Joust pin, he hooked that sound up to every event. After 20 minutes of that I slammed his office door so hard I broke the doorknob off and got a standing ovation from most of the other people on the floor.

ken