What's with all the Toaplan love lately?

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Dave_K. wrote:
maxlords wrote:BTW does ANYONE at ALL have Ghox?
I have Ghox, and if you think finding the PCB is hard, try finding the original/proprietary tilting spinners! :wink:
Dayum. Had no idea it required the spinners like Arkanoid. Guess that one is getting scratched off the list. Would it be worth picking up w/spinner for $80? I don't think I really want to install a spinner on my 2P Egret 1 with the original Egret panel. *sigh* It looked so fun...like Arkanoid Returns but cooler too. I bought AR a while back and when I finally got it running, found out it runs like shite on a joystick....moves WAY too fast. Bah.

Toaplan revised want list:
Vimana
Batasgun
FixEight
Pipi & Bibis
Fire Shark

Had Demon's World but I didn't like it at ALL.

BTW...has anyone else grabbed Rally Bike? I found out ot was Toaplan licensed by Taito and snagged one for $15. Pretty damned fun game.
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320x240 wrote:
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captpain wrote:I just wish that Batsugun worked in MAME. I'm sure this is cliche as all hell by now, but what's the deal with that?
It works. The encryption on the sound chip just hasn't been cracked yet, so you get no music. You could just blast your own tunes in the background, or even get mp3's of the game's tracks and play them.
But it's all in slow-motion.
*shrugs* Plays at the right speed for me. Must be a problem on your end.
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I don't know if it's just the ROM I have, but there are some pretty strange graphical issues (starting right after you 'take off') and the aforementioned broken/no sound.
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It plays better in Finalburn Alpha if I recall.
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FIL wrote:It plays better in Finalburn Alpha if I recall.
You are correct! This is really cool... time to go numb my fingers.
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