Arcade difficulty settings

[Anonymous No.7827724]

I've been playing a bunch of arcade games with https://www.retrogames.cc/ recently and I noticed some of them have a difficulty option. I had never known arcade games had difficulty options, but there seems to be no pattern to which have them.

For example, TMNT has a difficulty option but Turtles in Time does not despite coming out 2 years later. Why is that? Do most arcade games in fact have difficulty options but perhaps this websites emutlators/roms just sometimes dont support them? Does changing difficulty setting in arcade games change much, or perhaps is it mostly just a generic higher damage taken/less damage output thing?

[Anonymous No.7827729]

>>7827724
Those were something arcade operators had access to. Either dip switches or in a special menu.

[Anonymous No.7827774]

>>7827724
>Why is that?
Because you're using shitty zoomer shit. I can't think of any post pong that didn't have some sort of difficulty setting. Even if it was something as simple as how many lives you started with, points for extra lives, etc.

[Anonymous No.7827798]

it's so owners could crank up the difficlty via the system menu/dip switches and rinse your wallet, op

[Anonymous No.7827828]

>>7827774
no bully plz. these work well enough without having to download a billion roms just to jump in and try something

[Anonymous No.7827846]

>>7827774
fuck off buzzword boomer

[Anonymous No.7827847]

Thanks for the site OP, it runs a tad slow but I can finally enjoy those classics from my childhood without fiddling around with bullshit!

[Anonymous No.7827848]

>>7827724
>websites emutlators
Holy zoom

The difficulty settings for this game are in the operator menu. It's common for games made after the 1980s to have these settings in software instead of hardware dip switches.

[Anonymous No.7827853]

>>7827848
i literally found the site using the 4chan-made emugen wiki. if it werks whats the problem?

[Anonymous No.7827859]

>>7827853
None, just gatekeeping fags being autistic as usual.

[Anonymous No.7828027]

To get into the options menu you need to put the machine in service mode, sometimes you need to reboot the machine after turning on the service switch. Look I figured it out on your ass-backwards zoomer shit.

[Anonymous No.7828039]

>>7827828
>>7827846
OP asked why there were no difficulty options on a game on his zoomer shit and I gave him a 100% factual answer. If this triggers you need to go back.

[Anonymous No.7828059]

>>7827724
set difficulty to easy, 1
credit feed
repeat until you mature and play real games (PC multiplayer action, strategy and jrpgs)

[Anonymous No.7828220]

>>7828039
Actually this is a good thread. Due to op's retardation I found out that Turtles in Time defaults to mono sound.

[Anonymous No.7828226]

>>7827846
do you know what irony means

[Anonymous No.7828387]

>>7828039
>browser emulator is zoomer because....because i say so ok?
k lol

[Anonymous No.7828418]

>>7828220
Isn't it Turtles in Time that also has a feature where if you play long enough without dying the game just kills your ass?

[Anonymous No.7828425]

>>7827848
>after the 1970s

[Anonymous No.7828497]

>>7828418
I read there's a hidden timer that kills you if you take longer than 5 minutes to clear a level

[Anonymous No.7828672]

>Does changing difficulty setting in arcade games change much, or perhaps is it mostly just a generic higher damage taken/less damage output thing?
I know that in Crazy Taxi, turning up the setting makes significantly more cars appear on the road. There was a huge debate over which difficulty the game "should" be played at, since you can score higher on higher difficulties. In shoot-em-ups, it usually makes your rank (a hidden mechanic where the game starts getting harder the better you do) rise a hell of a lot faster.

So it varies from game to game. Sometimes it's just a number change, while other times it increases the enemy count or makes harder enemies spawn more often.

[Anonymous No.7829963]

>>7828220

...so?

[Anonymous No.7830662]

>>7828387
Literally every grownup in the world says so zoom zoom

[Anonymous No.7830671]

>>7828418
The game drops a bomb from the sky and it's unavoidable in the futuristic ship level, you CAN however avoid dying using the i-frames from a high kick.

[Anonymous No.7831560]

>>7830662
>Stop enjoying things, you're playing the game wrong, fool
I can't tell if you guys are trolling or simply retarded. Why do you care if someone plays emulated, in a browser, on a basement, or with the actual machine? Oh wait, he doesn't have a crt display, what a retard.
baka

[Anonymous No.7832928]

>>7831560
>zoomie is too stupid to use mame
>also too stupid to access the service mode in the web emulator he uses all the time, but non-retards who have never seen it before can get into service mode just fine
>too stupid or lazy to google the manual for the arcade machine
OP is a retarded zoomer
Simple as