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Re: Hamsterball!
07/11/16 11:00 PM
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>>...Marble Madness was only game I played for the years of 1985 through mid 1987.
>That's heavy, dude. That's, like, ten times as much as you need to master it.
During the two years, Marble Madness was my own variation of "Pac Man Fever" (folks over-addicted to some particular arcade game)
It always frustrated me many times of rarely getting past level 4 on to level 5. The level 4 music always stuck in my mind. About 1997 of when Digital Eclipse was marketing arcade classic titles on CDs for Mac and Windows users, I had purchased a copy myself.
I played Digital Eclipse's version of Marble Madness and was able to get to level 4, but I had noticed one musical medley was missing. I knew I could not be mis-remembering Marble Madness. I explored the files on the CD and noticed the audio wav files and played them. None of the files matched the specific level 4 music medley.
A few years after 1997 and when discovering community emulation preservation projects such as MAME and other emulators in 2000, I tried running Marble Madness in MAME. I noticed that Aaron Giles had emulated the Atari System 1 games such as Marble Madness and Aaron emulated Marble Madness correctly in which the particular level 4 music medley was being played while Digital Eclipse's commercial port was missing that musical medley piece on level 4.
Another example of where the commercial port might fall short compared to MAME.
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