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| daruble:
Sorry for the noob question but. Can anyone tell me is their anyway to use a 49 way joystick for tron ???? I have the blue plastic housing for tron that mounts to the joystick. But if I use a 49 way instead I can use it for more game plus tron and others. I was reading another post where the person stated that they wish they had a 49 way controller. Sorry don't know much about the difference between a 8 way and a 49 way. Can I get a tutorial on differences or somthing. :dunno :banghead: Thanks Dave Ruble |
| Gray_Area:
Old question. Answer is, yes. Question is, would you want to? Answer: you don't know. You need to go look up these controls to get an understanding. |
| PL1:
--- Quote from: daruble on July 21, 2012, 06:33:25 pm ---Sorry don't know much about the difference between a 8 way and a 49 way. Can I get a tutorial on differences or somthing. --- End quote --- Welcome to the forums, Dave. An 8-way stick has 4 switches - Up, Down, Right, and Left. If you press the joystick in the 45 degree direction, you activate both the Right and Up switches. To picture how a 49-way stick works, picture a 7x7 grid. When the stick is centered x=4, y=4. (* on the diagram) This allows a slow, medium, or fast in each direction. If you were to push a little to the right and all the way up, you would get x=5, y=1 (# on the diagram) _1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 # 2 3 4 * 5 6 7 More on 49-way joysticks in the wiki. A Tron stick is an 8-way with a special restrictor plate that makes it harder to hit the diagonals. (less zig-zagging on the light cycle stage) More on it in the wiki. A less expensive (and shallower to mount) option is to use a magnetic triggerstick hack like Tony shows here or the Import Flight Stick from Paradise Arcade (Ultimarc carries them, too) for the 8-way parts of Tron and switch to a dedicated 4-way wired in parallel for the light cycle stage. If you decide to do autoswitching 4 to 8 way joysticks, Le Chuck has got in-game switching for Tron working here. Lots of good stuff to read on the wiki -- it will give you the background to understand what people are talking about in the forums and ask "non-noob" questions. ;D Scott |
| daruble:
Thanks for answering the Noob questions with such detail. I will read all the links and see if I can figure the arcade controls out. Thanks again for making me feel welcome to your community. |
| Brian74:
The guys from here know there stuff :notworthy:! They have given me all the help I could ever need! Dont feel bad, I have had my share of noob questions too! Welcome to the community! :cheers: |
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