MAME controller input settings for Tournament Table (Atari)

[RPO R6V]

Sorry if this has been brought up before.  Are there any MAME controller input settings I can use to make Atari's Tournament Table playable?  My cab uses a Slikstik as its control panel FWIW.

[RPO R6V]

So is this game just unplayable?  Still banging my head against the wall trying to get the controls to work.

[RPO R6V]

Is anyone on here currently successfully running and playing this game?

[Howard_Casto]

It's playable afaik..... the problem is :

1.  You are asking about a game form the 70's thats actually just a compilation of home console pong titles.  I doubt many people are playing this.

2.  You are asking how to change input settings in MAME.  This is a super easy thing to do (you can do it from within mame) and it's been covered nearly everywhere.

3.  You haven't properly stated what your problem is.  What is the game doing?  What are you having problems with? 

Just as a helpful hint, in one player mode, the paddle is by default mapped to the left and right arrow keys, not the up and down arrows.

[RPO R6V]

Howard, you're right about what you said and when I go back and read my initial post I must apologize - it was pretty vague.  So to your points:

1. That's why I'm interested in playing it (though I realize I've got to be in the vast minority).

2. I do know how to change input settings in MAME, but I admit my post didn't make that clear.

3. The game will run, but what I'm having problems with is moving the paddles on the screen.  I can't get them to move at all.  The spinner on my Slikstik works fine for other paddle games such as Arkanoid, Avalanche, Super Breakout, and Circus.  I also use it as a steering wheel for driving games like Pole Position, Out Run, and Hang On.  But with this game I start it up, put in a couple of (virtual) quarters, select a game, start it up, and it runs, the "ball" keeps getting served over and over, but I can't get any of the paddles for either player to move no matter which buttons I hit or by using the spinner or the trackball.

Sorry for the very vague first post!  And, thanks for the reply!

[Howard_Casto]

Actually those games you just listed aren't paddle games, they are spinner games.  A paddle is an analog dial, a spinner is an optical encoder, similar to a mouse. 

TT on the other hand IS a paddle game.  Thus why you are having issues with this game and not others.

Does the slick stick even have a spinner?


Regardless.... run the game....press tab.... select "input this game"....  press enter.  Your settings are in there.  It's as simple as selecting "paddle analog" in the menu and movign your spinner.... mame will do the rest. 

[RPO R6V]

Thanks again for putting up with a newb.  In the end I figured out how to use joysticks to control the game.  Not exactly ideal but for the two-player games it didn't seem fair for one player to get a spinner and the other player to get stuck with a joystick.