1126: Arcade Game Series: Ms. Pac-Man PS4 \\ The last Ms. Pac-Man??? = o
1Playing Arcade Game Series: Ms. Pac-Man on PS4 for the first time in five years! (And ANY Ms. Pac-Man for the 1st time in four years!)
With Namco replacing Ms. Pac-Man with a generic "Pac-Mom" in their recent releases of other games (Pac-in-Time in Namco Museum+, and Pac-Land in that and Arcade Archives Pac-Land), it's looking likely this 2016 release may end up being the last Ms. Pac-Man we get for quite some time!
My Ms. Pac-Man playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZO3OPzPjIzMtFU1NtHBPCPrPygaerP6k
0:00 - start
0:37 - run 1
2:50 - run 2
8:27 - run 3
16:49 - wrapppppp (talking about Jr. Pac-Man, and all sorts of Pac-blather)
- Oops, the red dot stage is only the 3rd maze. : P The 4th maze is dark blue dots, I don't know if I've ever actually got that far: https://strategywiki.org/wiki/Ms._Pac-Man/Walkthrough#Dark_Blue_Maze ; and the mazes don't loop after that, they just alternate between #3 and #4.
- The rotating 4/8-way restrictor gate is on the bottom of the Sanwa JLF I've put in my Hori RAPV 2017 PS4 arcade stick, so I'd only need to unscrew the bottom of the case to adjust it--but doing that every time I wanted to play Ms. Pac-Man would end up putting a lot of wear on the screws and plastic screw holes. It would also increase the throw range of the stick, which is already longer than it was for Ms. Pac-Man in the arcade.
- I went back and played Ms. Pac-Man in Pac-Man Museum on PS3 and wasn't getting the wrong-direction stuff I built a custom stick to avoid back in the day in that version (you could be moving up, graze diagonal up-right, say, move the stick back to up, but find your Ms. Pac still taking the next right, because that was the most recent new input, which is how the arcade version processes input); I've never had that problem in this PS4 version with any controller, I think they prevented it in software this time.
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(I recorded this video in 3:4 aspect ratio, at 60 fps, and doubled its 1080p resolution to 1620x2160 in an attempt to convince YouTube to give the video at least 1080p, 60fps playback in vertical mode; that has worked for other vertical games with which I've tried it, in private test videos, such as the Steam version of Mushihimesama, PS4 Arcade Archives Dig Dug, and one of two short Arcade Game Series: Ms. Pac-Man test videos I made...but the algorithm has only granted this one 720p60. The Video Game Series game itself outputs the Ms. Pac-Man game graphics in slightly blurred form, which I suspect disinclines YouTube to prioritize them for HD. I'd almost certainly get 1080p60 if I recorded the game in 16:9 but darn it, the actual Ms. P is a vertical game and I want it showing up large and in charge on vertical cell phone screens, not squished down into a silly horizontal letterbox with massive & grotesque modern border graphics; you can see those in previous episodes in my Pac playlist if you really want to!)
9/22/22
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