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The last games added really sucked. I don't know how they figured on what to add. Maybe it was based on what was easy.

I'm just curious....

If you had access to the source or Clay Cowgill; "What games would you like to see added to the AS Menusys loading software?"

Here's some from my dream list:

Vert:
1942
Congo Bongo
Galpus/Galaga 3
Tower Of Druaga
Time Pilot

Horizontal:
Ghosts and Goblins
Zoo Keeper
Elevator Action
*Front Line* wrong controls for this noted
Jungle Hunt/King

Since he seemed to be getting some of the Nintendo roms working, are they all easy once you get the VS driver going?

VS. Super Mario Bros
VS. Ice Climber
VS. Excite Bike
VS. Dr. Mario
VS. Gradius
VS. Castlevania
VS. Balloon Fight

It's really too bad. Unless more development can be opened up on this board, it shows that it died before it was really done. The Multi Williams bezel showed that there could be a custom bezel feature.

It also could have gotten a VS themed bezel and gotten a number of Nintendo compatible VS roms.
 
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I agree with you.. wish there had been more.

Maybe Clay Cowgill would consider more development of games if the owners of the AS boards were to donate or pay for more games?
 
It wouldn't take TOO MANY people who REALLY want a particular title to put up a fair fee to get something implemented, provided Clay was up for it. But, you would really need to organize a group of people (perhaps here) to agree on specific titles which would (of course) need to be within the capability of the hardware. My guess is that some of the MAME coding guys, who do their work for free, might be willing to adopt the platform and expand the library it can't be TOO different from what they are already doing. And if they canp get some sort of tools from Clay, that might end up being the best bet...
 
Clay is holding the source close to home so it'll be about finding out how much he charges to add games to menusys.

Similar family chipsets games should be easy I imagine. Mostly it's just compatibility testing and stuff.

I'm curious what it would have taken to keep this board relevant and "alive" He should have at least let you turn off the MultiWilliams horizontal bezel.
 
You're best bet on this is to hope the Chinese bootleggers actually bootleg the menusys software. It sucks, but that is the reality of the situation. Clay Cowgill doesn't give a shit about us (Arcadeshop Multigame Owners). He's proven that more than once.

My wish list:

Fix the freakin' Donkey Kong 3 sounds
Fix GORF so it actually WORKS again (it seems to have died somewhere between the last 3 updates... 3 updates ago GORF worked... the latest update... it doesn't.)

I also agree the latest "update" was an absolute joke. VS Golf? Sucks... BAD. VS Soccer? Sucks... BAD. VS Pinball? Meh... best of the 3... and the space game (whatever its called)... I suppose it was OK but nowhere on the radar... why not SMB? Why not Excitebike? Why not Balloon Fight? WTF?

Steve also mentioned SMB/EXCITEBIKE had been done, but was in the testing phase... why not release that update?!??!??
 
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As far as I know, this was work for hire which means Arcadeshop should own the source code. I would contact Steve at Arcadeshop about it and get his take on it.
 
trying to trade emails with Clay

but he's not that responsive...
He alsosaid he'd never release the source.

I'm just trying to get an idea of what other roms people think could run and would expand the supported list in a good direction.

Getting chinese guys to bootleg it is like reverse engineering it.
 
Games I'd love to see:

Vertical:

Q-Bert
Jumpin' Jack
Juno First
Motorace USA
Galaga 88
Gaplus/Galaga 3
Nibbler
1942/1943
Xevious
Time Pilot
Super Cobra
Scramble
Congo Bongo
Pleiades
Balloon Fight (would rock vertically)...
 
The word on the street is that Arcadeshop and Clay have a new programmable board ready to be released soon.

Well, I asked Steve about that a month ago and got no response. If it's true, I feel bad for anyone who coughed up $400 for the "old" version any time in the last 6 months.
 
If there IS a new board coming out, it would make a LOT of sense as to why the "old" board was discontinued. It would also be an appropriate response to those who copied the original board. Another thing to think about is that the more you "support" the old board, the more it helps the bootleggers by expanding the base of games that can be loaded onto the bootlegged boards.
 
I'd like to see a way to add more memory to the old board so you could load more games. At one point it was easy to pick and chose, not so much anymore.

I'd also heard that "converting" the games for this board was done by hardware and not strictly software. Now that could be BS but were not going to know any time soon.

Matt
 
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