What settings do you keep your games at?

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I haven't seen this addressed before and thought it would be interesting. What settings do you put your games on? For difficulty, I usually put them on the recommended level in the manuals. For number of men, I usually put 5.
 
All on defaults, except attract sound. Some games I like to hear, but most are turned off.
 
I keep the attract sound on usually. It adds to the atmosphere.

Have a game like Gate of Doom with attract sound in the background for a couple hours, you'll know what I'm talking about. Same with with the 48-in-1 boards, the attract sound is just terrible, I wouldn't want to subject my ears to much more than 15 minutes of that.
 
On games I'm good at, I crank the difficulty up (ie PP and Galaga), If I'm decent at it (ie Robotron, Joust, Ms.Pac, etc..) I use the default settings. But on the ones I suck at, I give myself all the extra "lives" I can... (ie Defender, Mr. Do, Burgertime.. ) lol though the latter two I had never played until last night, on my 60-1 ...lol.
 
Factory settings except freeplay on games that its available. Some games don't cycle through the attract mode in freeplay so those games stay at factory (ie. Ms Pac). I love the attract sound for Killer Instinct but it turns itself off after 5 minutes if no one touches any buttons.
 
I give myself more lives on Centipede, and Paperboy is set to easy, even though its still challenging. Everything else is set to defaults and coin play.
 
I keep my video games at factory (and quarter play for those with static freeplay screens)

I set my pins to be relatively easy - 5 balls and a generous ball save. Have had many 1 player games last over 30 minutes, but I still think they're more fun that way.
 
I have both my games (Frogger and Swimmer) set to TG settings. Only Swimmer has attract sound, which I like to keep on.
 
i usually use factory defaults, but switch up the difficulty every now and then to make it more challengine, mainly in games like mario/ satan's hollow. when i first got my DK the guy i got it from had it set to 6 men, and i felt that cheapened it. i may suck at dk, but i prefer to play it at 3 guys, where it was set to.
 
Factory settings except freeplay on games that its available. Some games don't cycle through the attract mode in freeplay so those games stay at factory (ie. Ms Pac). I love the attract sound for Killer Instinct but it turns itself off after 5 minutes if no one touches any buttons.



I just did this to my Ms.Pacman,

http://homearcade.org/BBBB/freeplay.html

although i did not do any splicing, just sodlered a wire to the positive side of the inner coin mech, with the other end going to the Player 2 button. Pretty slick!

e* I also went ahead and mounted a two way toggle switch beind and above the coin box so I can turn free play off and on with the "flick of a switch".
 
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I haven't seen this addressed before and thought it would be interesting. What settings do you put your games on? For difficulty, I usually put them on the recommended level in the manuals. For number of men, I usually put 5.

For one game party, to be attended by mostly hard core gamers, about a week before, I put them all on the easiest setting. Then I played all the games I could and got the higest scores I could on all of them. Then just before the party, I turned them all on the hardest settings possible.

People didn't think it was as funny as I did.
 
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