1804: Pac-Man NGPC \\ Neo Geo Pocket Color Pac-Man in a b&w Neo Geo Pocket!

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Published on March 3, 2024 6:12:53 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6rkfXC6b68

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SNK vs. Capcom: The Match of the Millennium (1999)

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Running the Neo Geo Pocket Color game Pac-Man in the NeoPop emulator when it's emulating the black and white Neo Geo Pocket system--and something a little funky happens, sort of a different way to play the game. ; )

My Pac-Man playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZO3OPzPjIzP4amjUBrQ5uiObNxySb7Jd

0:00 - start
2:38 - b&w scroll
19:05 - b&w full screen
26:49 - color full screen
29:22 - color scroll
44:19 - more b&w scroll

Okay so in the inverted, four-gray screen, the ghosts all look alike. = o And the sound gets a bit weird, more like qwakka qwakka than wakka wakka sometimes (this happens with the system set to Color, too).

The cropped screen of the "Scroll" setting is growing on me--not only does it feel way faster, since it's effectively a zoomed-in part of the Pac maze, but also I dunno it's kind of suspenseful or something since you can't always see where all the ghosts or dots are; or maybe I feel less intimidated when I can't see all the ghosts or can't see the borders of the maze hemming me in. ^ _^ It's definitely harder 'cause like a ghost can just come bombing in right out of almost nowhere, and I keep forgetting where I left a little cluster of dots like way offscreen in the opposite corner, and you can't see if a ghost is maybe heading into the opposite side of the tunnel on the other side of the screen, but, I dunno, maybe the blinkered view still helps me chill out with Pac-Man a bit more; regular Pac-Man definitely freaks me out. = o

(Also this way when you lose you have an excuse. ; D)

(Besides which, the super-low-res necessary to fit the full Pac maze in in the full screen mode leaves it looking kinda weedy. : PP Although I do like the extra big ghost eyes. 8)

Mednafen uses NeoPop's code for NGP/NGPC emulation but doesn't have a command line switch to do the forced-b&w thing as far as I know. NeoPop's graphics code is so old its full screen crashes on my Win 11 gaming laptop, so I have to run it in a 4x window--which is still only like 640px square-ish ; D.

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