Catver.ini - Less is More

Maximus Arcade is sweet - lets you set up quickly & even generate gameLists for mame based on the catver.ini file which has categorical information for MAME roms.

However, since Maximus doesn't let you make a game list from multiple categories, the only easy way to make (for example) a Sports category encompassing all the various sports is to manually find/replace for things such as Sports / Baseball and Sports / Football, etc.

As such I've just finished collapsing all the subvariants into their master categories for most genres. Fighters, Sports, and Shooter were among the worst.

What I didn't remove was any *mature* flags, nor did I really mess a whole lot with the language of quiz games or the more obscure japanese tabeltop subgenres.

For anyone interested, here's a link to my modified catver.ini. You can unzip then swap it in place of the catver.ini in maximus (or other FE).

Level_13:_Secret_Level: Video Game Art series

Level_13:_Secret_Level

Masters of the Universe!

For some of the sweetest in retro He-Man and the Masters of the Universe video game action, check out this great little cranny of he-man.org.

Last Starfighter game!

Since Last Starfighter was only ever created as a movie prop, people have apparently finally gotten sick of waiting for an arcade version and just made their own!

This site has info on last starfighter fan cabs and even a freeware download of a windows-based fan version of the game as shown in the movie.

I'm still alive

I haven't updated much due to being on a 5-day vacation to Wisconsin Dells. It's a very surreal place to begin with, made doubly so by the fact that we hit it during the off-season when no one is really there & most of the town is shut down. The only arcade-related occurence there was that they had some cabs at Denny's Diner at Hwy 12 & 23 (no not the chain). I played some Asteroids (though I think their aged leaf switches desparately needed to be be replaced - seemed you really had to push on them to get it to respond). God bless those old skool vector monitors.

I also discovered a Namco Classics Vol 2 cab that I'd never heard of which had 2 versions each of Rally X, Pacman, and Digdug. "Original" and "Arrangement".