MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: Decided to publish my POD Arcade interview today

> This is highly interesting to me! I always wanted to play the "Arcade" track with my
> POD installation which contains mostly 99% of all POD tracks ever made in the best
> playable way - but the Arcade track is still the only one I can't get to work. The
> game just crashes when trying to load it. So I think it needs a modified executable
> too but I couldn't find any information about such an executable over the whole net
> and its archives since years...
>
> I knew some information about the Arcade track and its hacked versions which _should_
> work with the default PC executables. There are three hacked versions of it:
> - "Arcade+" - the version most closely to the one of the Arcade cabinet. I think it
> has by far too many polygons or animations to work in any executable and was just
> held for viewing purposes in the BL4 viewer (I can actually open it there and sigh
> about how great it looks and that I can't play it).
> - "Arcade" - a version which has a slightly reduced amount of polygons and/or
> animations. It was said that it is playable on some computers / executables(?).
> - "Arcade-" - a version with even less polygons and/or animations. Should've been
> playable even with the default Pod executable. But I can't even get that one running.
>
> So far, the only thing I can see about that track is:
>
>
> Maybe someone has information about how to get that track working or about the
> modified executables :'(
>
> EDIT: Seems to be it doesn't work with the 3Dfx version! Someone got it running on an
> old PC - screens here: http://imgur.com/a/ImKgg

Some info here:
http://www.gog.com/forum/pod/playing_the_arcade_track_with_some_work

There's also "Arcade-Viewer", the original arcade version - which has the most polygons/animations, slightly modified to work in Sik's BL4Viewer, on Skubidou's site.

Supposedly you can get Arcade tracks to work in DirectX 5 POD exe on current Windows versions with NicoDE's PODHacks 3.8 (or newer).

If you get it working, please post a video to YouTube and take more screenshots.

PS. I'm flattered you registered just to respond to this.

- Stiletto