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| EightBySix:
I've touched on this a few times in related posts, but I'm not sure I explained myself well enough to get an answer. I'm wondering if there is a possibility of making a device that allows 4 way games to be played better on an 8 way stick. I realise that it won't feel the same as a dedicated 4 way, but I want to leave that issue aside for the purposes of this thread. What is the issue with MAME and 8 ways on a 4 way game? Is it that the game gets upset when it sees two direction switches being activated at once? Surely that can be 'fixed' with some sort of logic gate arrangement on the direction switches. For the sake of discussion, let's say we are about to climb the 1st ladder in Donkey Kong, so we are rolling the joystick around from right, to up, and both right and up are selected on the way. Would one of the following work? a) Intercept the diagonal signal and send nothing b) Intercept the diagonal and send only UP c) Intercept the diagonal and send only LEFT If one of these scenareos would make 4 way games more playable? It could be implemented as a switch, and make a dedicated 4 way stick less of a must have. I've seen some references to joystick settings in MAME. Does my suggestion just duplicate what MAME is doing in software? |
| leapinlew:
The problem really comes into play when you want to play multiple 4 way games, since they react differently to diagonals. Some games ignore them, some force the character to alternate between the 2 directions, some stop the character till the joystick is re-centered. If you wanted to just play Ms. Pacman, I'm guessing you might be able to get something to work, but I don't you'll find a satisfactory solution for a variety of different 4 way games. You're probably just better off dealing with the crappy 8 way. |
| EightBySix:
But this way, the game in question would never 'see' a diagonal... So it shouldnt matter how a particular game would react to it.... |
| Nephasth:
This might help you out. Don't know if you've seen it yet or not. |
| EightBySix:
Thanks - I hadnt seen that. It kind of goes halfway to what I was thinking of. If you shut off all other signals whenever a new (extra) one was received though, then you could get up the 1st DK ladder in the example above by rolling from right to up, even if you hit the diagonal. |
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