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TOK:

--- Quote from: chopperthedog on February 09, 2013, 01:49:46 pm ---Wow 4 pages and almost a month later with nothing. OP get off the computer and actually build something already.


good day.

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A month? He hasn't even started research on USB or LCD input lag. Mars will be colonized by the time he actually plays. :lol
1500points:
Off the rails it is going.....so i'll post one other observational test while playing.

The best Williams observation of a button is Joust.
Joust ramps up in difficulty to around wave 100, give or take.
At wave 16 you'll meet the blue shadow lord (worth...1500points...)
By early wave 20s you'll meet more.
By wave 60 they are tough
By wave 90 they aren't able to be outrun in a drag race to the top.

With a proper leaf you will be able to doubleflap by doing that little sweet spot wiggle to get that ostrich to blaze straight up. Which means you can still win a drag race up to around wave 60.
With a microswitch button you won't be able to outrun a Shadow Lord by early wave 20s.
yotsuya:
The ultimate test for any control component is how well you can play Galaga with it.
wp34:

--- Quote from: 1500points on February 08, 2013, 08:47:43 am ---
one last thing!  Joust extreme master, Lon McDonald, broke the mame marathon WR on my cab (homemade joust style tabletop cab with extension for upright) the buttons were using rolley leaf conversions and the wico had no horizontal restriction, and he was playing the tougher mame 106 version of joust. he is insanely talented. http://www.robotron2084guidebook.com/home/starworlds/joust30thbirthday/

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We got to see Lon play on 1500points Mame cabinet.  The thing that struck me was how good he was playing on non-original hardware.  While we were there he didn't once complain or comment about the hardware either.  It just struck me at the time as somewhat funny with all the hand-wringing (myself included) that goes on about controls being accurate. 
TOK:

--- Quote from: wp34 on February 10, 2013, 04:40:49 pm ---We got to see Lon play on 1500points Mame cabinet.  The thing that struck me was how good he was playing on non-original hardware.  While we were there he didn't once complain or comment about the hardware either.  It just struck me at the time as somewhat funny with all the hand-wringing (myself included) that goes on about controls being accurate.

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I built a cabinet just to play Defender and Stargate before I got a "real" Defender. I'd never claim to be a great player, but the difference is negligible. My high scores on both machines are within a few thousand after tons of play on each. The MAME cab has microswitched buttons, and it is a little more tiring to play but I think it'd only become a factor for someone who could play for a couple hours.

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