The easiest way to memorize it is to grab any old controller and pretend that you're controlling the Pac-Man in the video until you're perfectly in sync. Whenever you desync just rewind and try again.
@jonny_lagunaLooks like I'm in that boat. I've been playing on the Xbox version, and I haven't gotten past stage 3 trying this strat before I get got :(
Do you not realize how many video games are based on that concept? But don't be foolish... simply memorizing patterns without having actual skill and reflexes will only take you so far.
I should add: after a couple years of this, Midway modified the rom for new cabinets so patterns couldn't be used. But, for Pac-Man fans, the original rom is the true version.
That pattern 2 is is very good! I wouldn't have thought it possible that the same pattern would work on levels 5-20 including the three 'reversal' ones. Genius! Much appreciated. Your '9th Key' pattern is great too. Thank you.
@highoctaneR6 make sure your doing your movements in good time! Helps to hit the control for it before the end of the wall hits, you need to be hitting the inputs 1/60th of a second for perfect timing, patterns 2 with the pink ghost can get a little annoying but you should get there if you keep going
I've used your videos before trying to learn the perfect game and made it to level five before eventually losing interest. Just a lot of work trying to remember the patterns as well as the order. Three patterns as a start and slowly build to learning the others seems a lot more do-able. Thanks so much for making this!
Thanks. These patterns are focused on clearing boards safely, rather than getting perfect, which is not an easy task. I understanding people losing interest with trying to achieve a perfect game.
The Namco version present as a bonus in "Pac-Man World Re-Pac" played on PS4 Pro has some differences. Ghosts do not always follow the guidance given in levels 1-4 regardless of execution. From the fifth onwards it often happens that Pinky manages to grab you in the upper part of the maze. Thanks for the help. 😉
Thanks for sharing your patterns, I had the "How To Win At Pac-Man" book as a kid but an abstinence from playing the proper arcade version since the mid '80s and the 5 strokes I've have mean I can't remember a single pattern (I can barely remember what I was watching on TV last night). Now I have MAME + 1000s of arcade ROMS, CoinOPS Arcade Gold+ and an arcade stick + buttons so will give your patterns a go 😉
The pac man i first played was on the mini arcade unit back on the early 80s. It had i believed at least another version of the game. Fun at the time but cant see too much injoyment now days. But nice you came up with a pattern to win.
Very nice. I'm experimenting cloning Pacman for myself - I'll try these patterns out on it and use this to make my ghost patterns match what's here. Update: This pattern doesn't seem to work on Map 2 of Steam ARCADE GAME SERIES Pac Man. At 1:46, the blue ghost turns up and kills me, rather than turning down. Is there some version of Pac Man this is meant to work for? Does it work on an arcade box? Update2: Nevermind, my turning on the corners was slightly off. Still trying to get these right - At 19:42 you have to hit the up-turn on time or red will take a right instead of going back up, and screw up the pattern. I was able to complete all three patterns successfully - thank you! Notes to self: 15:38 Maze 17 17:31 Maze 19
At 4:44, pinky always runs towards me and and gets me. I’ve tested this several times now on both board 5 and board 6, and I’m confident my pattern is correct. Help!
Just curious if you have an image or pdf showing the patterns? Seems like it would be easier to memorize if I had the overall patterns to look at. Thanks!
I always wonder how. Pacman never had to poop. Like, would there have been another intermission? Call it "potty break", and Pac would enter an outhouse, with a pacman shaped cutout on the door.
He poops continuously, but it's jet black so it blends into the background. That's why the ghosts alter their path sometimes: They're avoiding Pac-Man's poop.
Well, in Namco museum volume 3, there is an Easter egg of him on the can in his house. However it doesn’t seem like he has a butt, so I don’t know how pac deification would work.
@@HelenFire420 "I don't know how pac defecation would work." Simple. It can come out the same way it came in. 😆 In fact, some lifeforms can excrete waste through the "mouth." At least part-time. Proving that you don't necessarily need a "butthole" to poop. You just need a different kind of digestive anatomy, wherefore the ingestion tube serves double-duty. 😁
Thank you so much for these wonderful patterns and explanations that made me (re-)discover Pac-Man ! Learning these patterns allowed me to successfully complete the perfect Cherry pattern.
Sometimes it happens to me that when I'm making pattern one, Inky crosses my path. For example at 3:53 only that, instead of going down, he goes up. Does anyone know how to fix it, or maybe I'm doing something wrong?
@nonetheless0 It’s because you need to beat him, moving down before Inky reaches that corner. Inky’s target square is gotten by taking the point a few squares in front of Pac-Man, and then doubling the line from Blinky (Red ghost) to that point. If you do this you can see that since Blinky is behind you, you can’t be late and moving right when Inky turns the corner because if you’re late, Inky will have his target square off to the right which means he will need to come up to you to reach that square. You need to have already rounded your corner like in the video, moving down before Inky reaches his corner, so that when he rounds his corner, he’s forced down because his target square is facing down since you beat him and are moving down already.
I have beaten pacman when i was young 40+++ years ago.I cant remember the patern we used but i remember that we were able to gather all gosts and eat them easily almost in any stage before reach first key.Our goal was to clear the stage and eat all bastards.
Yeh, by the first Galaxian level (8:20) the ghosts always manage to catch up to me when I reach the upper-left quadrant. If there are some cornering strategies required to clear that part, they should've been mentioned.
Sometimes on Level 1-4 Inky (Blue) attacks in the house, so I have to avoid him - It's possible to rescue our plan, but I have to Avoid Inky again in the low middle right corner. On level 5 Blinky (Red) doesn't move back in start right top corner - he attacks so I have to avoid him - From that point on I can't follow the plan for level 5-20.
Correct, in Ms. Pac-Man, Blinky and Pinky move randomly for the first few seconds of each board, and that’s all it takes to make running patterns impossible.
Right! Well there was Mastering Pac Man by Ken Uston in 81/82. I had that as a kid and read those patterns/maps over and over and then finally got to try them out at an arcade. I mean, God how boring to just read a book of patterns. I must have been really bored. You can google and find a PDF of that book today. I'm wondering if any of these will work on the version I have on my Nintendo Switch. Guess I'll give it a try soon.
I know I'm late with this, but there is one problem. These patterns, while generally useful, are not perfect. If followed as shown here, they don't always work.
I knew 2 out the three patterns but of course I went after the ghost monsters and tried to eat as much of them as possible. I had problems when the ghost monsters were faster than me.
I remember getting a pac man patterns book back in the 1980's and it was really complicated because there were so many patterns to memorize. This is about as perfect as it can get. Ever thought about experimenting with AI to see if it can be optimized any more?
Someone showed me a three pattern system, (in the early 80s), and I used it to get to 1,732,xxx but there is no way I can remember it. iirc the last pattern starts at key 2. (I mean the original arcade version).
I had pattern one memorized as a kid. There was actually a book that told you how to do it but eventually all the kids learned it and just copied each other.
You have to make sure to get the frame skip on every turn. It took me several hours of practicing the first pattern before I could execute it tight enough to reach the 5th level. Brutal stuff.
The first pattern is faulty, I keep getting intercepted by the blue guy at 0:45 Sometimes he comes up from the bottom and gets me on the right side of the ghost cage
same happened to me sometimes but i fixed by if u see him coming from the bottom when u turn right before going down just pause for a second so he doesn’t eat u , got passed level 5 now
Can you do on for ms. Pac-Man? I've seen a ton of patterns online for packman but for ms. Pac-Man there's not much videos like this with simple patterns. I would greatly appreciate a video like that as i want to get good at ms. Pac-man too!
Ive tried these on my 1up arcade partycade and I get rogue ghosts who ruin the pattern is this an emulation issue or a timing issue on my part by premoving turns or not premoving or something?
that’s what im tryna figure out for example pattern two when i turned left to go across the board the pink one didn’t reverse maybe it’s a timing issue idk
Second pattern seems to have more risk than the patterns I used as a kid and didn't seem to go after any of the ghosts. 3rd pattern had more risk than mine, but can't say if it was faster or not.
I tried this on a Pac-Man 1980 ROM on web browser and the pattern doesn't work consistently, even before eating the pellets. Should I use Mame? What do you use in the video?
@@dentistrider3874 MAME is used in making these videos. I own an original Pac-Man chipboard and cocktail cabinet and can say with very high level of certainty that MAME plays exactly like the original arcade game.
@@PacStrats Thank you! Got it working on Mame and the first pattern works pretty well. I'm assuming that you're supposed get every turn early and not snag it late. Also, after eating the first power pellet, it shouldn't always work the same way since the ghosts move randomly during eating mode, right?
@@dentistrider3874 The ghosts do not move randomly when they are blue (eating mode). If they scatted in an unexpected way it’s because you make an incorrect turn somewhere in the pattern, likely didn’t make a turn smoothly somewhere along the way. Yes, you have to be pushing the next direction slightly before you reach any turn in any Pac-Man pattern. You don’t need frame perfect timing or anything, just be pushing the next direction before you reach the intersection. Good luck.
I followed pattern one for board one and when I got to board two, the pattern didn’t work I ran into the blue ghost right near the pen after taking the tunnel and down through the pen
@@teddythodo3302 lol. I was just curious what kinda hardware they use. I was thinking of picking one up if I found one cheap. I have a mame cabinet that I play on in my basement .
I am pretty sure I have some old vinyl record from some rock band during the Pac-Man era that has these same strategic patterns on the album cover or insets...but I could be wrong?
Interesting video, you either modified Goodrich and Butcher Cherrys pattern, or reinvented it (assuming you dont know them). Good stuff either way but I think the original are fairly unbeatable.
This doesn’t seem to be working. I’m on MAME 0.26 and the attract mode shows blue ghost killing pac-man just above where the bottom left energizer was, suggesting it’s the original 1989 ROM. What version is used in this video?
im using android fbneo emulator non mame, this not working pls help mostly bc inky behavior is not the same, he caught me right in the corner first cherry and sometimes before left turn before the first energizer (bottom right one, just left to bottom left energizer)
I cant avoid pinky in pattern 2 lvl 5 when i get to the top right corner after avoiding Blinky Pinky doesnt turn back to the left but comes right at me instead, im using the xbox 360 version on xbox 1
First of all, thank you very much for your sharing, finally a solution to the game :). Unfortunately for me it's hellish, I tried in Pandora box or even in mame on a powerful PC, with arcade terminal controller or joystick or xbox controller or mechanical keyboard, the pattern works very well on the first level but from the second or third, I always find myself against inky. I have pattern1 in front of me, I made a drawing, I know it by heart but unfortunately I must be too slow when I turn.
Do these patterns work with only certain versions of the game? I worry that the machine I use might not run the same patterns. Also, how does one check the version in the first place?
Good info! One suggestion: You could have had the pattern drawn on the screen as Pac-Man moves through the mazes. The video would have taken longer to make, sure, but the actual pattern would be a lot easier to see, learn and remember.
yo, thats pretty dope. How do you go about making these patterns? would love to learn to get good enough to come up with own fun unique patterns. so far your other videos have been super useful though
@@rgardjrUpon further playing this is surely a timing issue. At this point, when pacman is moving right on top of the cage, make sure to turn joystick downwards even before the turn. This to make sure that pacman goes down as soon as possible when the turn is reached. For me, this works 100% every time now :)
personally i find stevepiers patterns to be easier to learn and i have the majority memorized the only one i cant seem to grasp is the 9th key which is just ridiculous in its own as the energizers stop working
So people actually play this game using patterns lol.. I always thought u just go for those dots and avoid ghosts. I had no clue people used patterns lol
I'm playing MAME Pukman on a PC, using a keyboard direction keys to move pacman in the maze. My goal is to get 1 mil points. I'm finding it very hard to get used to the keyboard, I'm making stupid mistakes, turns taken too early, turns not taken soon enough, etc. I can't even get to 100K. Ugh. Is it just more practice, or is using a keyboard just a bad bad way to play.
It actually does, the blue ghosts are not random, it uses something called pseudo-RNG. If you take the same path with frame perfect turns the make the same "random" turns every time. Ms Pac-Man does use actual RNG for scatter though, but Pac-Man is deterministic.
Sorry been playing this since 1980, and while oart of the pattern is correct you are completely missing all the advantages of the points through large dots and your pattern shifts half way thru...not the point to just clear the screen. It's score
There are only two possibilities. 1) You are playing a version of Pac-Man not equivalent to the original 1980 arcade game, or 2) You are not running the patterns correctly. If you link me with a video of what’s happening when you run the patterns, I can let you know what’s going on.
@@terralriver Make sure you are doing frame-perfect turns, you need to hold the direction several frames before Pac-Man reaches the turn. If you miss it by a frame or two, the pattern will not work.
I wonder if any unknown players over the years have developed a pattern that works on all boards. I'll bet some nerd could use AI to figure one out. Then you only have to memorize one pattern!
@@JustWasted3HoursHere Now that you mention it, I’m sure it’s just a matter of time. If it were a matter of national security it would probably be solved by the end of today 😀
@@PacStrats My gut tells me it is definitely possible, but I imagine the pattern itself would very complicated to learn as it would have dozens of turns to remember. There are several AI machine learning channels here on RUclips. I should mention that as a possible experiment for them to try.
Shows why Pac Man is a lame game. 3 patterns to beat it. No patters for beating Robotron 2084 or Defender. You just have to use lightning reflexes and avoid the massacre.
You only need 2 patterns not 3. From Apple till 9th key then from 9th key till end of game different pattern. From stage one too 4 u can can just eat dots don't need pattern. Only 2 patterns my boy not fn 3 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yes, you can scramble and clear the lower boards if you wish. For the sake of completeness and presentation, I decided to clear boards 1-4 with a pattern too.
The easiest way to memorize it is to grab any old controller and pretend that you're controlling the Pac-Man in the video until you're perfectly in sync. Whenever you desync just rewind and try again.
This was excellent advice thank you!
i did exactly that too and it worked perfectly with any pattern for me
With the video playing at 0.5x speed if, like me, you're old enough to remember the Pacman craze back in the day.
So basically in order to get better at this game is just memorizing patterns and watching out for fright more till level 19, pretty cool!
Basically, yeah, it’s all about the patterns and memorize👍🏼
@jonny_lagunaLooks like I'm in that boat. I've been playing on the Xbox version, and I haven't gotten past stage 3 trying this strat before I get got :(
which one @@mrmidlife2546
Do you not realize how many video games are based on that concept? But don't be foolish... simply memorizing patterns without having actual skill and reflexes will only take you so far.
I should add: after a couple years of this, Midway modified the rom for new cabinets so patterns couldn't be used. But, for Pac-Man fans, the original rom is the true version.
That pattern 2 is is very good! I wouldn't have thought it possible that the same pattern would work on levels 5-20 including the three 'reversal' ones. Genius! Much appreciated. Your '9th Key' pattern is great too. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed! I was very happy to find a single pattern that worked for levels 5-20. That was the main goal of the endeavor.
@@PacStratsfor me on level 5 the pink one ran straight at me on the first left then going across the board instead of reversing😢
@highoctaneR6 make sure your doing your movements in good time! Helps to hit the control for it before the end of the wall hits, you need to be hitting the inputs 1/60th of a second for perfect timing, patterns 2 with the pink ghost can get a little annoying but you should get there if you keep going
@ okay thank you
I've used your videos before trying to learn the perfect game and made it to level five before eventually losing interest. Just a lot of work trying to remember the patterns as well as the order.
Three patterns as a start and slowly build to learning the others seems a lot more do-able. Thanks so much for making this!
Thanks. These patterns are focused on clearing boards safely, rather than getting perfect, which is not an easy task. I understanding people losing interest with trying to achieve a perfect game.
The Namco version present as a bonus in "Pac-Man World Re-Pac" played on PS4 Pro has some differences. Ghosts do not always follow the guidance given in levels 1-4 regardless of execution. From the fifth onwards it often happens that Pinky manages to grab you in the upper part of the maze. Thanks for the help. 😉
I have a version of the game and ran into the same issue. Is there a particular version that this pattern works on?
@@t.m.kmedia1136the arcade variant, or original Romset, works great on the original arcade machine from 1980
Thanks for sharing your patterns, I had the "How To Win At Pac-Man" book as a kid but an abstinence from playing the proper arcade version since the mid '80s and the 5 strokes I've have mean I can't remember a single pattern (I can barely remember what I was watching on TV last night). Now I have MAME + 1000s of arcade ROMS, CoinOPS Arcade Gold+ and an arcade stick + buttons so will give your patterns a go 😉
Good luck! Hope these patterns help you return to the ‘80s for a bit.
I had that same book. Wasn't it made by the same ones that did Joystik? I miss that magazine.
The pac man i first played was on the mini arcade unit back on the early 80s. It had i believed at least another version of the game. Fun at the time but cant see too much injoyment now days. But nice you came up with a pattern to win.
Very nice. I'm experimenting cloning Pacman for myself - I'll try these patterns out on it and use this to make my ghost patterns match what's here.
Update: This pattern doesn't seem to work on Map 2 of Steam ARCADE GAME SERIES Pac Man. At 1:46, the blue ghost turns up and kills me, rather than turning down.
Is there some version of Pac Man this is meant to work for? Does it work on an arcade box?
Update2: Nevermind, my turning on the corners was slightly off.
Still trying to get these right - At 19:42 you have to hit the up-turn on time or red will take a right instead of going back up, and screw up the pattern.
I was able to complete all three patterns successfully - thank you!
Notes to self: 15:38 Maze 17 17:31 Maze 19
At 4:44, pinky always runs towards me and and gets me. I’ve tested this several times now on both board 5 and board 6, and I’m confident my pattern is correct. Help!
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Just curious if you have an image or pdf showing the patterns? Seems like it would be easier to memorize if I had the overall patterns to look at. Thanks!
Just draw it
This took me back to when patterns used to be published as books.
I always wonder how. Pacman never had to poop. Like, would there have been another intermission? Call it "potty break", and Pac would enter an outhouse, with a pacman shaped cutout on the door.
He poops continuously, but it's jet black so it blends into the background. That's why the ghosts alter their path sometimes: They're avoiding Pac-Man's poop.
Well, in Namco museum volume 3, there is an Easter egg of him on the can in his house. However it doesn’t seem like he has a butt, so I don’t know how pac deification would work.
@@HelenFire420
"I don't know how pac defecation would work."
Simple. It can come out the same way it came in. 😆 In fact, some lifeforms can excrete waste through the "mouth." At least part-time. Proving that you don't necessarily need a "butthole" to poop. You just need a different kind of digestive anatomy, wherefore the ingestion tube serves double-duty. 😁
This is awesome! I had two patterns I think that worked really well but not full boards. This is going to be so helpful and thank you.
Very good patterns to use, because you don't need to improvise at all !👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Thank you so much for these wonderful patterns and explanations that made me (re-)discover Pac-Man ! Learning these patterns allowed me to successfully complete the perfect Cherry pattern.
You misunderstand my ability to get stuck in corners. I'm the best corner guy ever.
The first pattern works on the second apple as well, and you get the passthrough bug too.
I had a book back in the 80's that had the patterns for Pac Man and Donkey Kong.
Same here. Bit more of a challenge implementing it when you had to pay each go :)
anyone else hear "Waka Wow Brotha" whenever Pac-Man turns off of a string of pellets?
Sometimes it happens to me that when I'm making pattern one, Inky crosses my path. For example at 3:53 only that, instead of going down, he goes up.
Does anyone know how to fix it, or maybe I'm doing something wrong?
Yeah same
@nonetheless0 It’s because you need to beat him, moving down before Inky reaches that corner. Inky’s target square is gotten by taking the point a few squares in front of Pac-Man, and then doubling the line from Blinky (Red ghost) to that point. If you do this you can see that since Blinky is behind you, you can’t be late and moving right when Inky turns the corner because if you’re late, Inky will have his target square off to the right which means he will need to come up to you to reach that square. You need to have already rounded your corner like in the video, moving down before Inky reaches his corner, so that when he rounds his corner, he’s forced down because his target square is facing down since you beat him and are moving down already.
@ Thanks dude.
I did exactly the pattern 3 in the 255th stage (pac man 256 hack), and Blinky did the unpredictable.
I have beaten pacman when i was young 40+++ years ago.I cant remember the patern we used but i remember that we were able to gather all gosts and eat them easily almost in any stage before reach first key.Our goal was to clear the stage and eat all bastards.
Yeh, by the first Galaxian level (8:20) the ghosts always manage to catch up to me when I reach the upper-left quadrant.
If there are some cornering strategies required to clear that part, they should've been mentioned.
Sometimes on Level 1-4 Inky (Blue) attacks in the house, so I have to avoid him - It's possible to rescue our plan, but I have to Avoid Inky again in the low middle right corner. On level 5 Blinky (Red) doesn't move back in start right top corner - he attacks so I have to avoid him - From that point on I can't follow the plan for level 5-20.
Thanks! Gonna use this in the next few days to get the final trophy in PacMan World remaster
This only works in original pac man from 80s
@@jendak2653 it worked for me
Did you get the achievement?
This is why Bally Midway introduced the Pac Man Plus mod: to prevent pattern running. It's impossible to pattern run Ms. Pac Man.
Correct, in Ms. Pac-Man, Blinky and Pinky move randomly for the first few seconds of each board, and that’s all it takes to make running patterns impossible.
Where the hell was this guide back in 1982 when I needed it?😅
Right! Well there was Mastering Pac Man by Ken Uston in 81/82. I had that as a kid and read those patterns/maps over and over and then finally got to try them out at an arcade. I mean, God how boring to just read a book of patterns. I must have been really bored. You can google and find a PDF of that book today. I'm wondering if any of these will work on the version I have on my Nintendo Switch. Guess I'll give it a try soon.
I know I'm late with this, but there is one problem. These patterns, while generally useful, are not perfect. If followed as shown here, they don't always work.
I knew 2 out the three patterns but of course I went after the ghost monsters and tried to eat as much of them as possible. I had problems when the ghost monsters were faster than me.
I've never realized Pac-man is just the exact same maze with increasing speeds.
they made more than one game. Most Pacman games have multiple mazes, some like the championship edition have mazes that shift around as you play
I remember getting a pac man patterns book back in the 1980's and it was really complicated because there were so many patterns to memorize. This is about as perfect as it can get. Ever thought about experimenting with AI to see if it can be optimized any more?
19:11 pattern 3 start
Someone showed me a three pattern system, (in the early 80s), and I used it to get to 1,732,xxx but there is no way I can remember it. iirc the last pattern starts at key 2. (I mean the original arcade version).
I had pattern one memorized as a kid. There was actually a book that told you how to do it but eventually all the kids learned it and just copied each other.
I tried on nintendo switch and it is really random
You have to make sure to get the frame skip on every turn. It took me several hours of practicing the first pattern before I could execute it tight enough to reach the 5th level. Brutal stuff.
The first pattern is faulty, I keep getting intercepted by the blue guy at 0:45
Sometimes he comes up from the bottom and gets me on the right side of the ghost cage
same happened to me sometimes but i fixed by if u see him coming from the bottom when u turn right before going down just pause for a second so he doesn’t eat u
, got passed level 5 now
Can you do on for ms. Pac-Man? I've seen a ton of patterns online for packman but for ms. Pac-Man there's not much videos like this with simple patterns. I would greatly appreciate a video like that as i want to get good at ms. Pac-man too!
the ghost ai in ms pac-man is random
Ms. Pac-Man does not have any patterns that work.
Nice work. I'm sure you know the other patterns that allow you to go through the ghosts?
Ive tried these on my 1up arcade partycade and I get rogue ghosts who ruin the pattern is this an emulation issue or a timing issue on my part by premoving turns or not premoving or something?
that’s what im tryna figure out for example pattern two when i turned left to go across the board the pink one didn’t reverse maybe it’s a timing issue idk
@@highoctaneR6 I’ve heard the ghost are a fraction of a second slower on the one ups.
It depends on which version. The nes version is different than the arcade, because this method definately doesnt work on nes.
The nes port Is not arcade perfecr
Second pattern seems to have more risk than the patterns I used as a kid and didn't seem to go after any of the ghosts. 3rd pattern had more risk than mine, but can't say if it was faster or not.
Cool is there patterns that work to beat the entire game?
I tried this on a Pac-Man 1980 ROM on web browser and the pattern doesn't work consistently, even before eating the pellets. Should I use Mame? What do you use in the video?
@@dentistrider3874 MAME is used in making these videos. I own an original Pac-Man chipboard and cocktail cabinet and can say with very high level of certainty that MAME plays exactly like the original arcade game.
@@PacStrats Thank you! Got it working on Mame and the first pattern works pretty well. I'm assuming that you're supposed get every turn early and not snag it late. Also, after eating the first power pellet, it shouldn't always work the same way since the ghosts move randomly during eating mode, right?
@@dentistrider3874 The ghosts do not move randomly when they are blue (eating mode). If they scatted in an unexpected way it’s because you make an incorrect turn somewhere in the pattern, likely didn’t make a turn smoothly somewhere along the way. Yes, you have to be pushing the next direction slightly before you reach any turn in any Pac-Man pattern. You don’t need frame perfect timing or anything, just be pushing the next direction before you reach the intersection. Good luck.
This patterns work for the 1980 version but the 1985 version, trust me the programing and these will only work for only two levels
6:27 Look at the ghost house. That's why my favorite emoji is 👀
I followed pattern one for board one and when I got to board two, the pattern didn’t work I ran into the blue ghost right near the pen after taking the tunnel and down through the pen
I’m also playing on a arcade one up
Never mind. I didn’t buffer one of the turns early enough and I’ll be damned it actually matters.
@@teddythodo3302does the arcade 1up have the split screen on level 256?
@@atrain818 lol I can’t get passed the 4th board. I wouldn’t know
@@teddythodo3302 lol. I was just curious what kinda hardware they use. I was thinking of picking one up if I found one cheap. I have a mame cabinet that I play on in my basement .
Does this work on arcade one up?
Did anyone go to the store and buy the cheat sheet book for Donkey Kong and PacMan? It covered the patterns to use.
Yes, in the 80s. I studdied Pacman and was blown away that it worked in the arcade, and I kicked as.
I can finally beat pacman. Thank you
I am pretty sure I have some old vinyl record from some rock band during the Pac-Man era that has these same strategic patterns on the album cover or insets...but I could be wrong?
2:42 timestamp to practice 😅
the patterns dont work on namco museum pacman
What version of pac man starts off with that many lives?
the arcade version
It's a dipswitch setting
Interesting video, you either modified Goodrich and Butcher Cherrys pattern, or reinvented it (assuming you dont know them). Good stuff either way but I think the original are fairly unbeatable.
Are these 3 patterns the only way to get a perfect score & get to the final half screen board?
No, these will get you to the end but other patterns are needed for a perfect score.
Thanks a bunch for sharing this!
This doesn’t seem to be working. I’m on MAME 0.26 and the attract mode shows blue ghost killing pac-man just above where the bottom left energizer was, suggesting it’s the original 1989 ROM. What version is used in this video?
im using android fbneo emulator non mame, this not working pls help mostly bc inky behavior is not the same, he caught me right in the corner first cherry and sometimes before left turn before the first energizer (bottom right one, just left to bottom left energizer)
Very nice
I cant avoid pinky in pattern 2 lvl 5 when i get to the top right corner after avoiding Blinky Pinky doesnt turn back to the left but comes right at me instead, im using the xbox 360 version on xbox 1
yup same maybe it’s the version i heard the ai can be different
First of all, thank you very much for your sharing, finally a solution to the game :). Unfortunately for me it's hellish, I tried in Pandora box or even in mame on a powerful PC, with arcade terminal controller or joystick or xbox controller or mechanical keyboard, the pattern works very well on the first level but from the second or third, I always find myself against inky. I have pattern1 in front of me, I made a drawing, I know it by heart but unfortunately I must be too slow when I turn.
what about super pac man? and is the 5 lives a DIP switch setting?
Do these patterns work with only certain versions of the game? I worry that the machine I use might not run the same patterns. Also, how does one check the version in the first place?
I'm going to have to get my big stick controller out to practice these. I can't play this game using a d pad or thumb stick. :D
I have the Doc and Pies arcade and it works sometimes
do somebody know a channel that teach to beat MS pac-man?
What are you playing on?
@@jenniferwehrle8738 PC with keyboard. Using the MAME arcade emulator.
Good vid. This doesn't work for me though. Pinky "speedy" runs straight towards me near the beginning instead of running away from me. Ty
Same thing for me
I used to run the APPLE pattern all the way up to the 1st Key...
Good info! One suggestion: You could have had the pattern drawn on the screen as Pac-Man moves through the mazes. The video would have taken longer to make, sure, but the actual pattern would be a lot easier to see, learn and remember.
@jonny_lagunaProbably, but it's not my video. ;)
yo, thats pretty dope. How do you go about making these patterns? would love to learn to get good enough to come up with own fun unique patterns. so far your other videos have been super useful though
I did it when pac man was new. My local pub hated me as I could make 10p last all night. 😆 🤣
FYI, I never used the tunnel.
Where can I get the original pacman? Is there an emulator for the sort of thing or something?
At 02:55 Inky goes up instead of down when I am playing this level :(
Same. First pattern works for first two screens, but not peaches for me.
@@rgardjrUpon further playing this is surely a timing issue. At this point, when pacman is moving right on top of the cage, make sure to turn joystick downwards even before the turn. This to make sure that pacman goes down as soon as possible when the turn is reached.
For me, this works 100% every time now :)
what version of pac man is this? and what console? someone plss answer i need help
It's almost certainly the original arcade ROM in MAME, which you can get for PC and various other systems.
1:54 Because Inky Is His Nickname.
personally i find stevepiers patterns to be easier to learn and i have the majority memorized the only one i cant seem to grasp is the 9th key which is just ridiculous in its own as the energizers stop working
He does do a good job of explaining his videos.
In lv2 80% of time blue ghost catch me 😢 when going down in right side of cube..😢😢
So people actually play this game using patterns lol.. I always thought u just go for those dots and avoid ghosts. I had no clue people used patterns lol
I get the impression you use more than three patterns. 🤔
I doubt any of these patterns would work on an original arcade game. Whole different deal...
What do you think is the difference between an original arcade machine and emulating it in MAME?
Sooo Coolllll!!!!!!
I'm playing MAME Pukman on a PC, using a keyboard direction keys to move pacman in the maze. My goal is to get 1 mil points. I'm finding it very hard to get used to the keyboard, I'm making stupid mistakes, turns taken too early, turns not taken soon enough, etc. I can't even get to 100K. Ugh. Is it just more practice, or is using a keyboard just a bad bad way to play.
Buy a joystick with a USB plug. Keyboard is nearly impossible. I couldn't pass the 1st board using a keyboard
patterns dont matter when they blue tho
It actually does, the blue ghosts are not random, it uses something called pseudo-RNG. If you take the same path with frame perfect turns the make the same "random" turns every time. Ms Pac-Man does use actual RNG for scatter though, but Pac-Man is deterministic.
I was never that good at arcade Pac-Man.
Now show us the one for Ms. Pac-Man 😅
Where did you play this pac man beacuse I want to play 5 lives pac man do not work pac man museum+
My OCD wont let do this 😂
Sorry been playing this since 1980, and while oart of the pattern is correct you are completely missing all the advantages of the points through large dots and your pattern shifts half way thru...not the point to just clear the screen. It's score
I wish you had played pattern three a few times… sucks to only see the pattern you need to replicate 232 times, only once in this video…
0:27
These patterns do not work! I've tried all 3 several times.
There are only two possibilities. 1) You are playing a version of Pac-Man not equivalent to the original 1980 arcade game, or 2) You are not running the patterns correctly.
If you link me with a video of what’s happening when you run the patterns, I can let you know what’s going on.
@@PacStrats It's the PS4 version equivalent to the arcade version. The ghosts are performing a different pattern than in your video.
@@terralriver Make sure you are doing frame-perfect turns, you need to hold the direction several frames before Pac-Man reaches the turn. If you miss it by a frame or two, the pattern will not work.
I'm playing on Ps5 and I need to reach round 9, can you help me on SharePlay? 😭🙏
原來如此，有公式可帶
I wonder if any unknown players over the years have developed a pattern that works on all boards. I'll bet some nerd could use AI to figure one out. Then you only have to memorize one pattern!
@@JustWasted3HoursHere Now that you mention it, I’m sure it’s just a matter of time. If it were a matter of national security it would probably be solved by the end of today 😀
@@PacStrats My gut tells me it is definitely possible, but I imagine the pattern itself would very complicated to learn as it would have dozens of turns to remember. There are several AI machine learning channels here on RUclips. I should mention that as a possible experiment for them to try.
Do ms.pacman bro JR.PACMAN
There are no patterns in those games. It's all about grouping in those games. Which is a tough concept to convey.
ありがとう！( ´∀`)b
Wow.....although...the game is most likely not fun for you anymore😢
以前我也會這三套公式
怎麼玩都不會死
Shows why Pac Man is a lame game. 3 patterns to beat it. No patters for beating Robotron 2084 or Defender. You just have to use lightning reflexes and avoid the massacre.
You only need 2 patterns not 3. From Apple till 9th key then from 9th key till end of game different pattern. From stage one too 4 u can can just eat dots don't need pattern. Only 2 patterns my boy not fn 3 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yes, you can scramble and clear the lower boards if you wish. For the sake of completeness and presentation, I decided to clear boards 1-4 with a pattern too.
Ai can't play pac that well