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MAME - 4-way emulation
swindmiller:
I am new to all of this but understand the difference between 4-way and 8-way. My tankstick lets me switch between the 2 but is a pain. I just read on their site: Note that newer versions of MAME seem to have a built-in software 4-way emulation automatically used for 4-way games.
Does anyone know what version this came out on and how it works? Do I have to set something in the options?
Thanks,
Scott
molton:
Thats just more pretty sounding bullsh*t from the folks at X-arcade, lol that's the first time I ever heard of anybody saying a piece of software seems to have a feature it in fact does not have.
RandyT:
They are probably getting confused by the mapping function available for analog and 49-way sticks. Won't do a thing for the controls on those panels. :)
the_gamer:
I don't think this will ever be implemented. Mame is not about playing the games in the most comfortable way. Being able to play the games is only sideeffect for the developers. It is about emulating the hardware.
paigeoliver:
An emulation driver isn't going to be able to decide at any given moment which direction would be best to send the game when you send it a diagonal. Something like that would have to be in the original software.
That is why Nes Pac-Man and Atari 2600 Pac-Man work with 8-way controls is because they were written with them in mind.
The whole bit about being able to play the games being a side effect and the mame project being about documentation is a retcon. You can still go back and read all of nicola's original usenet posts when he started mame, it was all about playing the games. The whole documentation thing was added in years later.