Akka Arrh ( And here it is ! )

[WiteWulf]

From the Metro article:

The original coin-op used a trackball, similar to Missile Command, but according to Minter his game works fine with an analogue stick, although you can also use the touch pad on the PlayStation if you want and there is trackball support on PC.

[RiK]

[gilesgoat]

Interesting back story to the ROM arriving on Mame decades later too -

With Akka Arrh now playable on MAME, people online started to wonder how the anonymous dumper got his/her hands on the Akka Arrh ROM in the first place. Considering the game's rarity and the owners of the three existing arcade cabinets refusing to dump Akka Arrh online, people started to believe that the Akka Arrh ROM was stolen from one of the existing Akka Arrh arcade cabinets.

One user on the MAMEWorld Forums named atariscott claimed to know an incident regarding Akka Arrh. In the MAMEWorld Forums, atariscott reports that a collector who owned one of the three Akka Arrh arcade cabinets had a technician fix some of the collector's games. The technician was then able to copy Akka Arrh into a ROM without the collector's permission. The Akka Arrh arcade cabinet was not broken and not one of the games the technician was told to fix. As a result, the collector had to look through months of security footage to see if he can catch the technician stealing the Akka Arrh ROM. However, some people online are skeptical about the story's validity.

The YouTube channel Hot Take uploaded a YouTube video with Shane from Rerez and Adam discussing the possibility of atariscott's story not being true, especially when considering the time and risk it would take for someone to extract a ROM file from an arcade machine without destroying it. It has not been verified as to whether the Akka Arrh ROM was stolen or just dumped online by one of the owners of the three existing arcade cabinets. Either way, the Akka Arrh ROM is now available to the public and can be played through MAME.

and a good interview here -

https://metro.co.uk/2022/12/07/jeff-min ... -17894075/

I hate to ask but is it 60fps on the Switch ? As that will be my default platform.

OF COURSE IS 60 FPS !!! "Accept NO LESS from LS !"

[gilesgoat]

From the Metro article:

The original coin-op used a trackball, similar to Missile Command, but according to Minter his game works fine with an analogue stick, although you can also use the touch pad on the PlayStation if you want and there is trackball support on PC.

The game works VERY WELL with GAMEPAD in fact is my preferred way to play it ( also "one button mode" , there are a few different modes ) ..

BUT you CAN also go with Keyboard ( not exactly the best but can be done ) and/or MOUSE and/or anything else you have attached.

For as strange as it seems I think "going with Mouse/trackball" changes a little bit "the feeling" I mean you may prefer it but I like more the gamepad experience

It's NOT "a spinner thing" because you need to move in all directions, not just "circular" but it's really "a good mixture" of "shooting AND strategic action".

As usual "you can shoot all that comes" but that may NOT be "the way get the best scores"

[gilesgoat]

[rowan]

Great stuff
In a year containing a genuine dearth of good news and little shortage of bad, it's nice to read this just before 2022 finally fucks off!

I guess Windows 10 minimum is a certainty..?

[Whiteball]

Well that's pretty high on my list of things I'd never have guessed. Congratulations!

I did think it could possibly be something like this as Yak did mention he liked it in another thread when a rom was leaked for mame a couple of years ago. However, once I saw it in the Atari 50 collection I discounted it as not likely to be. Glad I was wrong though as this looks excellent.

It's actually not a bad game. I've had my eye on it for a few years now, since it looked interesting - I like the lotus/mandala shapes of the first screen and the idea of having to zoom in for close quarters combat when the baddies get too close. I like how they do a bit of mischief in the middle near your gun and then run away (and that you can blast them on the petals again as they flee). For ages I couldn't find anything more than a few screenshots so finally being able to play it in MAME is lovely.

I am sure with a bit more love and tweaking it could have overcome poor location testing and become a decent game, but in the end it wasn't given that chance. But still, I like the way it was heading.

And this I think is more or less the same story that was said about the Marble Man (Marble Madness II) rom that was leaked so I would take it with a (large) pinch of salt.

With Akka Arrh now playable on MAME, people online started to wonder how the anonymous dumper got his/her hands on the Akka Arrh ROM in the first place. Considering the game's rarity and the owners of the three existing arcade cabinets refusing to dump Akka Arrh online, people started to believe that the Akka Arrh ROM was stolen from one of the existing Akka Arrh arcade cabinets.

One user on the MAMEWorld Forums named atariscott claimed to know an incident regarding Akka Arrh. In the MAMEWorld Forums, atariscott reports that a collector who owned one of the three Akka Arrh arcade cabinets had a technician fix some of the collector's games. The technician was then able to copy Akka Arrh into a ROM without the collector's permission. The Akka Arrh arcade cabinet was not broken and not one of the games the technician was told to fix. As a result, the collector had to look through months of security footage to see if he can catch the technician stealing the Akka Arrh ROM. However, some people online are skeptical about the story's validity.

The YouTube channel Hot Take uploaded a YouTube video with Shane from Rerez and Adam discussing the possibility of atariscott's story not being true, especially when considering the time and risk it would take for someone to extract a ROM file from an arcade machine without destroying it. It has not been verified as to whether the Akka Arrh ROM was stolen or just dumped online by one of the owners of the three existing arcade cabinets. Either way, the Akka Arrh ROM is now available to the public and can be played through MAME.

Anyway, fantastic stuff, can't wait to play this one. I'm definitely spending more time next year chilling and playing so this will get a lot of attention from me for sure.

[MattyP]

Great stuff
In a year containing a genuine dearth of good news and little shortage of bad, it's nice to read this just before 2022 finally fucks off!

Absolutely! Day one for me! Looking forward to this!

[gilesgoat]

Great stuff
In a year containing a genuine dearth of good news and little shortage of bad, it's nice to read this just before 2022 finally fucks off!

I guess Windows 10 minimum is a certainty..?

You are NOT going to tell me people are still running Win7/8.1 ???

[Foozwah]

I hate to ask but is it 60fps on the Switch ? As that will be my default platform.

OF COURSE IS 60 FPS !!! "Accept NO LESS from LS !"

Woohoo! Brilliant news: Switch will def be my main platform/first purchase then, but I'll pick it up on PS4 as well, for times when the Switch is being commandeered by one of the kids.

[ESY]

Excellent! Xbox series x here, so make it the best version please, Giles!

[gilesgoat]

Excellent! Xbox series x here, so make it the best version please, Giles!

Xbox is having "the most brand new re-make of the internal engine" cause for those that know what I am talking about "recently" MS moved from XDK to GDK ( which also means that everything had to be re-done in DX12 ) I am still working on the port it made me trash *ALL* the code I ever done for Xbox cause "unuseable".

I had to re-do ALL and I mean really ALL from ZERO.

But let's say "that's a good thing" what is NOT a good thing about Xbox is "how mentally mental" MS must have become about "permissions" and "accounts". Apparently they made "a big revolution/change" of EVERYTHING ( that was at the last time I ever touched Xbox that was Tempest 4000 ) so much that I had to re-apply for everything, I don't think they even have "any trace" left of "Llamasoft" as Xbox developer !

And after signing NDAs and this and that there's still "a good 3/4 of the whole XBox crap" I can NOT get access to and I am "desperately" trying to sort it out.

The latest "cry for help" so far gave me this reply ( from MS/Xbox ) :


" Can you reach out directly to your Developer Account Manager? This seems like most likely a permissions issue with your account. I verified I'm still able to download via that link so I don't think this is an outage. "


And so it goes with me trying to get in touch with this and that to sort out things.

If you wonder "How I made Akka Arrh" so far for XBox ? .. well .. I CANNOT tell you the details ( that besides is still in work ) let's say "I got someway bits and pieces from there and there" .. however my impression is that "someone at MS went MENTAL with permissions/accounts/shit" they don't make it easy to work with them ..

</rant>

But yeah "I am doing my best" it's going to be a good version too

[Deckard]

Is that implying you do "bad" versions ?

[gilesgoat]

Is that implying you do "bad" versions ?

... FANCULO ! ...

[Deckard]

Is that implying you do "bad" versions ?

... FANCULO ! ...

So rude !!! I'll report you to the powers that be !!!!