Pacifi3D

About

Pacifi3d is a proof-of-concept pacman emulator that replaces the original pacman sprites and tiles with OpenGL 3D graphics.

Pacifi3d currently runs on Windows and Linux.

Screenshots

How it works

Pacman draws graphics by requesting the hardware to draw a sprite or tile at a specified position in a certain colour. Pacifi3d replaces the 2D video emulation of a standard pacman emulator with code to draw an equivalent 3D model at that position.

Having transformed the graphics output into 3D it is also possible to place the camera at the players position to simulate pacman from a 1st person perspective.

Usage

Download and unpack the binaries for your system. Place the roms in the provided roms subdirectory unzipped. Run the pacifi3d executable.

NOTE: Pacifi3d requires real arcade roms to function. These are NOT provided on this site. DO NOT REQUEST ROMS. Pacifi3d currently supports the following MAME pacman sets:

• puckman
• puckmana
• puckmanf
• pacman
• pacmanf
• puckmod
• pacmod
• hangly
• hangly2
• hangly3
• newpuckx

By default Pacifi3d will try to load puckman. To specify a different set start the emulator by typing: pacifi3d game

Controls

• Cursors / Joypad moves pacman
• 1/2 - Start game
• 5/6 - Add coin
• F1 - Cycle between views.
• F2 - Reset Pacman
• F3 - Toggle sound
• F11 - Toggle fullscreen
• F12 - Save numbered screen capture (snapXXXX.bmp)
• Escape - Quit Game
• Mouse - If you click and drag the mouse on Pacifi3d then movements will tilt the maze in 3rd person view.

Credits

• Pacifi3d - Fosters (c) 2005
• Pacman emulation code - MAMEdev
• Z80 emulator - Marat Fayzullin
• SDL library - Sam Latinga et al.
• Pacman (c) 1980 Namco Limited

Download

• Pacifi3d 0.3 Source Code
• Pacifi3d 0.3 Windows binary
• Pacifi3d 0.3 Linux i386 binary (compiled on Fedora Core 3)

To Do:

Things which need implementing: (I may never get round to some of these things so feel free to attempt them.)

• Fix sound glitches
• Pupils on the ghost eyes
• Face on the scared ghost.
• The big pacman on cutscenes
• 3D fruit models
• Make controls joystick rotate with pacman in 1st person view
• Zipped ROM support
• CRC rom checking

Contact

If you really must contact me then my email address is:

fosters at retrogames dot com

Fosters. 2005

Thanks to retrogames.com for the hosting.