Speed-Up Hack Exist in-game?

[Baloo]

Does this play at Regular Ms. Pac-Man speed, or at Top Speed like the real arcade machines?

[vdogaymer]

Right, no one is saying it should default, but it should be an option. It was in the arcades as far as I remember, so if you want to recreate that experience you would think it would be included.
Also there are just too many UI problems for the hack alone to be the only reason to put this thumbs down.

[roygantt]

Thornskade님이 먼저 게시:

I had some version of Ms. Pac-Man as a kid, but I actually found out a few days ago that it was just a faithful recreation called "CHAMP Ms. Pac-Man" by someone calling themselves CHAMP, obviously. Not sure it had the speed hack but I don't remember it at all. Why is that better? It just seems to make the game way too easy even though I'm not and never was particularly good at it.

I mean, I guess there's no reason not to include it as an option, but if it's always been a hack then at least it definitely shouldn't be considered default

The term is a highly synonymous in the mame roms world that's where it originated for they also by default had they same SLOW speed when any title from the original or Ms. Pac-Mans were downloaded.

[Cheese is Life]

I dont know what you guys are on but you are all completely wrong.

I played this game in many arcade room the moment it came out in 1981 and played it for hours on end and the speed was the same as in this version. The only thing I remember that is off with this version is that the ghosts act more intelligently and are harder to group together but the notion that this version is too slow is completely crazy.

[Schorsch Wadschinken]

Cheese is Life님이 먼저 게시:

I dont know what you guys are on but you are all completely wrong.

I played this game in many arcade room the moment it came out in 1981 and played it for hours on end and the speed was the same as in this version. The only thing I remember that is off with this version is that the ghosts act more intelligently and are harder to group together but the notion that this version is too slow is completely crazy.

From what I can gather some arcades implemented the speed hack and others didn't.
Either way, it was never endorsed or supported by Capcom, so that's basically an unofficial cheat.

[vdogaymer]

From what I can gather some arcades implemented the speed hack and others didn't.
Either way, it was never endorsed or supported by Capcom, so that's basically an unofficial cheat.

I think you mean Namco.

[Cheese is Life]

So there it is. All the versions I played in those days whether it was in a bar or an arcade venue were the original version as it was intended to be played. But I guess a lot of people played the "hacked" version hence why all the complains.