Pac-Man Plus

[davidmt]

Hi there,

Launching Pac-Man Plus is bringing up a version of Pac-Man (with standard blue maze) and a different font, and not the "Exciting New" game with the green maze and faster gameplay.

I also do not see the game listed in the Organized menu.

Can anyone confirm if this is happening to anyone else? I am pretty sure this game used to work, but, sometimes my memory fails me

[lamarax]

Looks fine on my end; green azure topaz maze, coca-cola, blue fruity running ghosts and everything. Have you tried to launch it directly from under _Arcade?

Symbolic links have started to become a mess recently, with all the options and whatnot :/

PS: I had to reload once, because first time around it got stuck on the test screen.

[davidmt]

Yes, that is how I am loading it. This is the strangest thing!

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I have no idea what game this is actually loading. Note the font is different.

Are you running the latest Pac core from 9/15/2021? I am assuming this is when it stopped working, but I can't say for sure.

[lamarax]

hmm, maybe it's time to kick off the new downloader script

It has the advantage of hash verifying your installed .mras, drawback being that you can't keep test cores intact.

[davidmt]

I am using the new downloader (and a new build), but I did find a couple things.

1 - If I go to the Arcade/Alternatives/PacMan Plus directory and pick "PacMan Plus (HBMAME)", I am getting the right game.
2 - Not really related (I don't think), but I saw in the release notes that high-score saving was enabled at some point. Well, there was no "nvram" folder in my config directory and I never saw any option to enable HS saving in the menu. Added the folder and it now saves the HS.

I'm going to create a build on another SD card and troubleshoot some more.

[BabaYaga326]

Hi there,

Launching Pac-Man Plus is bringing up a version of Pac-Man (with standard blue maze) and a different font, and not the "Exciting New" game with the green maze and faster gameplay.

I also do not see the game listed in the Organized menu.

Can anyone confirm if this is happening to anyone else? I am pretty sure this game used to work, but, sometimes my memory fails me

Same for me.

[killersquirel]

I have both this and the "Exciting New" variant on my setup. I am not sure how this happened, but I think I will manually rename this new version to avoid confusion.