PiperCalls

My arcade pedestal has a rotating monitor, so I wanted to gather up a definitive list of the Arcade Vertical Shooters to play. This is what I came up with. I think I've covered everything that is currently playable, but of course with this hobby nothing is ever "finished." I found a bunch of shooters that I never even knew existed, so I figured I'd share the list in case it helps anyone. All games on this list are playable. A couple notes on the list... * Games must be currently in a "playable" state via one of the emulators (listed below). * I did not include the gallery shooters (Galaga, etc). There are so many of those that I went ahead and peeled them out to their own list. * I did include the diagonal shooters (Zaxxon, etc) on this list. There are only a few of them, and they have to go somewhere. If I find enough of them in my hunt then I might peel them out to their own list since they have a slightly different play style. * I also included a few of the multi-directional shooters, but only if they still have a primary focus on vertical action, since they play like a vertical shooter. * There are a few games that could probably be considered 3rd-person shooters, but again if they have a similar play style to vertical shooters then I've included them. Emulators used: Arcade Classics = MAME (0.256) Sega Model 2 = Model 2 Emulator Sega Naomi = Flycast TeknoParrot = TeknoParrot (well...yeah...) I'm using the fabulous Neon Deluxe Arcade theme. These are the Arcade Vertical Shooters only, I might try to add some console-exclusive titles later...still debating that. I ended up with a little over 300 games in the list. Hope it helps people find shooters they maybe weren't aware of. Let me know what you think, and if I've missed anything!!

Yea edit the xml. Replace All "W:\" with whatever your drive is. Save copy of xml first & only do it with LB closed.

I have 4 installs. 3 are win10 & 1 is win11. I only use shell on 2 of them but 1 is win10 & 1 is win11. Win11 has some weird quirks in general. It kept muting audio on emulators after I would exit a game. Crap like that, that makes no sense.

Quick question on this. Does it only compare what files you alrdy have & dl the new set version of those only? I keep a manicured mame set of about 500 games & don't want anything else, just the ability to update those 500ish to the new set.

hmm ok. not sure then. i have 2 instances of sinden & ucr starting at boot and no issues. are you sure bb is freezing up or is it just not active? if bb isn't active it appears to be frozen. if you alt+tab is bb ok then? if so, you have something stealing focus.

Are you setting the Sinden sw to as a startup app within LB or in windows startup apps? Win + R type shell:startup Is anything in there?

Yea you can do bat files like monk said or just put the map/mod parameters in the game launch parameters (which is what I do). Either way is fine. Let me know if you need examples.

Oh nice attention to detail!

Wow those look great 👍. I'm doing bezels for vertical games on a vertical monitor now. Question how did you get the light behind the marquee effect? I can't seem to get any lighting effects that mimic that well.

This is most def needed especially for playlists where you might have 20 "Donkey Kong"'s lol. Heading over to vote now.