Finally managed a 1CC today!
This is a cool little game. Definitely feel there's some minor balancing issues, but they're far from enough to really hurt the experience. The game feels a lot more Cave-like to me than Touhou-like in the stages to me, and I mean that as high praise. Hats off to the team!
With arcade games, even if an emulator supports a system, it needs to be explicitly told to be able to load a certain rom by the author. MAME has a sort of rom database, and emulators like FBNeo use that database as a basis (emphasis on as a basis, it supports plenty of things MAME doesn't).
If you download the one labelled as MAME and extract it, it isn't just the rom, but a modified copy of MAME with the arcade rom extracted to /roms/doubledragon. There's a file in the base MAME folder extracted titled 'run.bat.' Running this will force MAME to run the rom.
Just use that.
Wow, ICOM Simulations has done Fantasy, Detective Noir, and Haunted Houses, and now they've even done Sci-Fi!
Wait, this wasn't done by ICOM?
In all seriousness, this was a fantastic game. About as long as the actual ICOM Simulation Macventures (At least on the first playthrough, perhaps slightly shorter when going through it a second time, which is really just a speedrun like the others), and just as fun.
Given the resurgence of Point and Clicks in recent years, if something like this was slightly expanded, or perhaps a new game in the style altogether, Macventures having always been my favorite style of Point and Click games, I honestly wouldn't think twice about buying this. Hell, for five dollars or so I probably would have bought this anyway.
It has the same pitfalls that the Macventures did, with cheap deaths and whatnot, but you did keep the NES mechanic of starting a screen prior to death. Also, being able to simply right click to close is pretty handy, although the text speed is a bit slow and can't be skipped like in the NES games, the text is also a bit too close together at points, and the while the screen transitions use the same sprites as the NES games, though don't animate as fluidly. Those are all really minor complaints, but it's otherwise a fantastically put together little game. I'll likely revisit it before I do Deja Vu at least.
