Pac-Man Ghost House Trick

i got banned from an arcade by doing this, cause i made it level 50 on one quarter, and so on.

I've played it on my DS and i thought it worked, but then Pinky get out from the house. Oh man...

Does this trick work on emulators?

Yes as long as the emulator is faithfully utilizing the Pac-Man ROM chips to play the game exactly as it would be in the arcade. MAME is probably the most popular emulator and plays Pac-Man perfectly.

Ok cool ;)

I have mame but i dont have the pacman ROM for it so i cant do the trick. i need the files so i can.

incredible

Do the most expert players normally use this trick, or does it have costs that prevent it from being worthwhile for them?

...If nothing else, I suppose it does require you to lose that first life.

yeah it's just a "show-trick". no player going for a high score would do this - as you pointed out, you must sacrifice a life to make it work. it has no purpose other than to demonstrate the ghost house bug..

the global counter gets disabled if clyde is inside the house when the counter reaches the value of 32 (i.e., Pac-Man has eaten 32 dots since he died). By allowing the timer to exceed 4 seconds, we let clyde out *before* that global counter reaches 32. now that clyde is free, when the counter finally does reach 32, nothing will happen - the counter will not be disabled and ghosts can be 'trapped' after they are eaten (except blinky). hope this helps!