Change difficulty setting from 8 (Very Hard) to 4 (Normal, Default) for co-op games

[poliva]

Gouki.mst has reported that some games have the difficulty level too high and people turns down playing because it's too difficult. This is specially annoying for co-op games like Metal Slug, 1944 the loop master, or Zupapa amongst others.

@3xcl4m4t10n any insight on that? thanks!

[ghost]

I don't see the point changing the difficult settings: Almost everybody that played these games on the past made it on level 8 and they want a major challenge. Anyway, if we put the difficult at a low level some people will come to complaining about the low level setting, so we are going to be at this situation every time.

In my personal experience, nobody came to complaint about the setting, and i was at some rooms asking people about this (Gouki told me in the past about this issue too). Some people said it was OK and the other people said that it is not a problem because they can change it.

So, in my personal opinion, I don't see the point redo like 50 save states again.

[drokmar3]

I only play co-op games at fightcade and I almost always play on 'normal' difficulty setting. Hardly ever does anyone request 'hardest' setting. There are quite a few players there who are not experts and also some people, like me, actually just prefer playing on the correct default setting which is what the game would normally be set to in an arcade. Many times I've played The King of Dragons at fightcade and only twice did someone request hardest difficulty.

Also, the difficulty setting for co-op games is not consistent at fightcade. Some games are set to easy e.g. Carrier Air Wing and Mercs, some normal e.g. Battle Circuit, The Punisher, and some hard e.g. Warriors of Fate, Uo Poko.

I'm grateful to you for making so many save states 3xcl4m4t10n which must have been time consuming but I'm disappointed you set KODU to 'hardest'.

[ghost]

The examples you used do not apply because they do not have the "bios" configuration, only the dip switch, so there's no way to save it configuration, only via .cfg and Fightcade do not support .cfg synchro.

[drokmar3]

Ah ok I didn't realize that.

Thanks again for making that KODU save state.

[hanasu]

There's literally no reason for this change - if someone wants settings that are not the default they can figure out how to change them. If someone is playing something that is not the default as they were expecting, that's a negative experience. Anyone who is good enough to beat these games at max difficulty will know how to use an emulator to change the difficulty.