Talk:Marchen Maze

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Mel E. what is your problem ? I've been cleaning up the Namco game entries and you keep messing this one up. Have you actually played Marchen Maze or written an emulator for the Namco System 1 hardware ? I HAVE. All Namco System 1 games have a resolution of 288 x 224 (224 x 288 if vertical). Also if you actually played the game then you would know that the game is based upon the Alice in Wonderland story.

You can look up any game on the Arcade History Database, System 16 or KLOV, which are linked on the main Namco page.

I'm not gingerfield, he was someone who posted lots of inaccurate stuff which I'm cleaning up like incorrect video resolutions and unverified release dates.

Gingerfield has left Wikipedia. Haven't you seen his talk page?

Finally the Wikipedia is supposed to be for anyone to edit, it's not your personal dictatorship.

Stop vandalizing the entry.

Marchen Maze is a Namco System 1 game, all Namco System 1 games have a resolution of 288 x 224, the vertical games actually have the monitor rotated on its side. The whole point of an arcade system is to have many games run on the same hardware.

If you actually played the game in a MAME and selected Game Information you would see the resolution is 288 x 224. Also if you go into service mode an goto the settings screen you would see the lives are listed as "ALICE" (default is ALICE 3 for an initial 3 lives).

Marchen Maze info: http://caesar.logiqx.com/php/emulator_game.php?id=mame&game=mmaze http://www.arcade-history.com/history_database.php?page=detail&id=1560

[edit] One more try at reason before requesting arbitration

For starters not everyone has a static IP address, having a dynamic IP address does not automatically equally bad. Next some people actually post info to improve the accuracy of the entries, it is supposed to be a user edited online encyclopedia, is it not ??

As for the postings, I've told you before the Marchen Maze is a Namco System 1 game and all Namco System 1 games have a resolution of 288 x 224 (the vertical games use a monitor rotated 90 degrees). Marchen Maze is a horizontal game. I've provided links to info which you chose to ignore, I'll provide them again:

http://caesar.logiqx.com/php/emulator_game.php?id=mame&game=mmaze http://www.arcade-history.com/history_database.php?page=detail&id=1560

Also as I stated you can download MAME and the game roms and run the game and it will clearly state the game resolution of 288 x 224. By not checking any of this and simply reverting the entry you are willingly posting incorrect info. You could also check the Namco System 1 article on Wikipedia which I created by the way.

Next if you look at the game, the game flyer or run the game in an emulator you will see the game is based on the Alice in Wonderland story. Additionally if you go into service mode and goto the settings screen you will see the initial number of lives is referred to as ALICE (default ALICE 3).

Next I did not remove the album info, I moved it to the end of the article which was reformatted to match other Namco articles.

Finally I removed the release month and day because this info is unverified and there is no source to check. You're complaining that I haven't provided sources (which I have) yet you want to keep unverified info ?? That's hypocrisy.

Pac & Pal - again if you run the game in MAME or look at screen shots of the title screen you will clearly see a bright red ampersand NOT the word "and", again some links (which I provided but you apparently deleted):

http://caesar.logiqx.com/php/emulator_game.php?id=mame&game=pacnpal http://www.arcade-history.com/history_database.php?page=detail&id=1911

Berabow Man - again if you run the game in MAME and look at the default high score list you will see the name "BERABOW" in the list. This is how Namco refers to their own game, not "BERABOH". Also there's a list of games in the PlayStation 1 compilation Namco Museum Volume 1 which also refers to the game as "BERABOWMAN".

As for gingerfield, I have reversed many of this user's postings since they are often inaccurate and contain unverified info.

I already told you, Gingerfield has left Wikipedia!!!

This tiny stub of an article is perfectly clearly and correctly formatted; it doesn't need dividing into separate sections (see Wikipedia:Use subheadings sparingly).
You supply references to third-party Websites (notoriously bad at getting typography right), but not to Namco; when I searched the Namco site, I could find no mention of any of them, under any of the variations you're arguing over. Googling found that the "Pac and Pal" style was extremely common (e.g., [1], [2], and [3], just to give the first three), and the same for "Beraboh" (e.g., [4], [5], [6], and [7]).
Too much of your reasoning is little more than "I'm right, I know about these things, you should let me edit as I like without interference". It doesn't work like that. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 18:29, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Marchen Maze and Alice and Wonderland

Look at the Namco flyer for the game and decide - http://caesar.logiqx.com/images/flyers/mmaze.png

Also as I stated before in service mode the initial lives setting is referred to as "ALICE"

Additionally there's a long standing rumor that there was an English version of Marchen Maze called "Alice in Wonderland", this is even mentioned in the MAME source code (see MAME source files src\driver.c and src\drivers\namcos1.c) though I suspect a bully doesn't understand the first thing about programming.