Namco Museum 50th Anniversary

Namco Museum 50th Anniversary

Developers
Original games	Bandai Namco Entertainment
	Digital Eclipse Software
Publishers
	Bandai Namco Entertainment
Release dates
Windows	October 25, 2005
Reception
Metacritic	52
IGDB	65
Taxonomy
Modes	Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Genres	Arcade
Series	Namco Museum

Namco Museum
Namco Museum 50th Anniversary	2005
Namco Museum Archives Vol. 1	2020
Namco Museum Archives Vol. 2	2020

Warnings

StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see Availability for affected versions).

Key points

Compilation of emulated arcade games by Namco.

Emulation quality of the games is mediocre compared to MAME.

ROMs are encrypted, disallowing use with MAME.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		StarForce 3 DRM

StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected versions).

This game is not available digitally.

Game data

General settings.

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\config\settings.dat

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\config\scores.dat

Video

Video settings.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Games included in the collection are limited to 4:3 or 3:4 aspect ratios.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD		640x480 only; for higher 4:3 resolutions see Increase Rendering Resolution.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		In the settings as "Smooth Graphics". Can be turned on or off.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
High-fidelity upscaling		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS		Menu is limited to 20fps.
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Input settings.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus		Mouse support is limited to the menus only.
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support		Need keyboard/mouse to select game, start game, use the menus, etc.
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

PlayStation controllers

Generic/other controllers
Button prompts

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Players	Notes
Local play		2	Co-op, Hot seat Multiplayer modes vary by game.
LAN play
Online play

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Issues fixed

Increase Rendering Resolution

Play at resolutions other than 640x480

Download dgVoodoo. Extract dgVoodooCpl.exe and dgVoodoo.conf to <path-to-game>. Extract the contents of the MS folder in the dgVoodoo zip to <path-to-game>. Open dgVoodooCpl.exe. Make sure the Config folder / Running instance is set to <path-to-game>, it may already be there by default. In the General tab, set Adapter(s) to use / enable to your current graphics card, Appearance to Full Screen, and Scaling mode to either Stretched, keep Aspect Ratio or Stretched, 4:3 Aspect Ratio. In the DirectX tab, make sure Disable and passthru to real DirectX is unchecked, and set Resolution to Max. You can uncheck dgVoodoo Watermark if you wish. Click Apply and exit the program.

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	98SE
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 400 MHz	Intel Pentium 600 MHz
System memory (RAM)	128MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	300MB
Video card (GPU)	RIVA TNT2, ATI Rage 128	Nvidia GeForce, ATI Radeon