I am thinking about multicading my used & abused Pac Man Plus. Has anybody ever used all arcadeshop parts (like marquee, control panel, side art, etc)? If so, how did it turn out? Do they come out nice?
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This was a gutted and ragged out Ms. Pac before the Arcadeshop treatment...
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One thing that I think should be noted about the control panel is that it comes with a 4-way joystick as standard. If you plan on playing any games that use 8-way control, it might not feel right. On the flip side, using an 8-way makes games that were designed for a 4 way stick (like the pac games) sometimes difficult to play. If you are not precisely pushing the stick in the right direction, and it registers a diagonal, the games gets two different direction signals at the same time. When this happens, it makes you think that your character isn't going where you WANT them to go...
One thing that I think should be noted about the control panel is that it comes with a 4-way joystick as standard. If you plan on playing any games that use 8-way control, it might not feel right. On the flip side, using an 8-way makes games that were designed for a 4 way stick (like the pac games) sometimes difficult to play. If you are not precisely pushing the stick in the right direction, and it registers a diagonal, the games gets two different direction signals at the same time. When this happens, it makes you think that your character isn't going where you WANT them to go...
I always build these with a 4-way when making them for casual clients who just want something in their gameroom for their kids to play. I never get complaints about not being able to move diagonally in Scramble or 1942. However, if I build them with an 8-way, I'll get several calls about problems playing Pac-Man or Frogger.
It's not worth the extra expense to buy the MagStik Plus for people who don't even remember the games that you'd need to switch for, and are mainly buying it because it has Ms. Pac and Galaga on it...