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A Mouse Spinner Hack just about anyone can make.
Louis Tully:
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Nephasth:
I had to adjust the sensitivity in mame's settings on arkanoid. That seemed to help a little.
Louis Tully:
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newmanfamilyvlogs:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on August 09, 2011, 09:26:05 am ---At some point I'm gonna have to sit down and figure out how to use a spinner in non-spinner games. I think it'd be fine in stuff like Gyruss, Galaga, The End, and anything else where you're going in a circle or just left and right.
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The biggest issue I can see is that in at least Gyruss and Galaga your left/right movement is at a fixed speed, so you would at best be mapping +X -> Right Joy, -X -> Left Joy.
You should be able to do this rather easily with a program like GlovePIE: http://glovepie.org/glovepie.php
From a quick scan of the documentation it looks like doing the mapping will be two lines of code:
http://glovepie.org/w/index.php?title=Preliminary_Documentation_v0.43#Mouse.DirectInputX_and_Mouse.DirectInputY
Something akin to:
mouse.DirectInput-X = keyboard.Left
mouse.DirectInputX = keyboard.Right
That's not correct code as I havn't read it enough yet, but should be simple enough to do.
TopJimmyCooks:
I've played gyruss with the spinner (turbotwist 1, z axis, Mame 141u3, mapped to joystick r and L) and experienced an annoying thing: the ship stops at 9:00 and 3:00 sometimes. If you're rolling around, you have to stop and restart the spinner rotation to get past 9 and 3. wen't back to joystick for that reason.
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