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Re: How Does MAMEDev Determine The Dipswitch Default Difficulty Level Setting Of A Particular Arcade Game?
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> How Does MAMEDev Determine The Dipswitch Default Difficulty Level Setting Of A
> Particular Arcade Game?
>
> I see that most games default setting is "Normal." But in some other games the
> default setting is "Hard" or "Easy" etc. So I was curious how the MAMEDev determines
> what to set the default setting level?
>
> If they determine it by what the setting level was once they obtained the PCB, how do
> they know that the previous owner of the PCB didn't change the difficulty, for
> example, from "Normal" to "Hard" so customers would spend more quarters? Or vice
> versa so his customers wouldn't pass on the game because it was too difficult or too
> much of a learning curve. Or for whatever other reason.


Pretty much every game manual has "recommended settings." On games where it isn't listed, well, dunno.

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* How Does MAMEDev Determine The Dipswitch Default Difficulty Level Setting Of A Particular Arcade Game? OldSchoolGamer 01/29/12 05:19 AM
. * Re: How Does MAMEDev Determine The Dipswitch Default Difficulty Level Setting Of A Particular Arcade Game? Mr. DoAdministrator  01/29/12 05:27 AM
. * Re: How Does MAMEDev Determine The Dipswitch Default Difficulty Level Setting Of A Particular Arcade Game? OldSchoolGamer  01/29/12 08:14 AM
. * Re: How Does MAMEDev Determine The Dipswitch Default Difficulty Level Setting Of A Particular Arcade Game? stephh  01/29/12 11:21 AM

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