Area 51 Question

FrizzleFried

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I just picked up an Area 51 Maximum Force PCB. I noticed something odd, but viewing the various videos of Area 51 on youtube, it appears it's normal.

When playing Maximum force, the enemy's firearms actually make "noise". You hear when they fire on you...

When playing Area 51... the enemy's firearms are quiet. You DO NOT hear a sound when they fire on you.

Is that normal? If so... WTF? I guess I can see that while you are firing away the enemies firearms wouldn't be audible much anyway, but still... I spend an hour trying to determine if my cab was set for stereo and I was only getting one side of the sound only to find that on youtube it appears the enemies aren't making gun noises either.
 
Another oddity:

Area 51 appears to be saving high scores... but maximum force isn't? Do I have to get in the top 3 or 5 or what not with Maximum Force for the board to save high scores?
 
Frizzle I don't know about area 51 but it sounds like a settings issue. Did you try the test mode ?(just a place to start)
 
My Area51 doesn't have the sounds for the enemy guns... I believe A51 and MaxForce were created at the same time by two seperate development teams.. It's likely that one team wanted gun sounds and the A51 team wanted you to hear more of the background music...
 
I believe the obvious answer is that in Area 51, you're fighting aliens... of course they have silent weapons (and silent space ships that abduct rednecks). Maximum Force just has terrorists, which have normal noise making weapons.

DogP
 
I have area 51 too, perfectly normal quiet aliens....
 
I'll chime in and say that the alien weapons are stealth in Area 51.
As far as Max Force not saving high scores I can't help you there as the combo board I picked up doesn't work :/
 
My A51 / Max force Combo board
Max Force definately has gun sounds I had to rewire some of the coin door and the utility switches and everytime I booted up it automatically started a game of maxforce prior to going into the standard attract mode. It was driving me nuts!
A51 does not have enemy gun sounds

Not sure on the Highscore save option since I have not played the Max Force much myself.
 
OK... it appears to me thus far that A51 saves only the top 5... resetting the bottom 5. I could be wrong... but I "believe" that is how it's working.

Max force may be the same way. I've not gotten on the top 5 I don't think...only 6-10 and it "for sure" doesn't save those.
 
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