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What games use a spinner or trackball and a joystick?
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zoup:

--- Quote from: tron84 on August 29, 2013, 08:43:39 pm ---Everybody has to do some kind of work around for certain controls, unless they have them.

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I have also been thinking about a dual monitor setup with one horizontal and one vertical. I imagine that even with the proper over under / dual monitor setup, prolly 97%+ of us use a button for "Duck" in Super Punchout rather than rig a pull joystick.  To paraphrase Tron84, - Ya gotta use whatcha' got. 
I swung by my local arcade to revisit Forgotten worlds. Using a Tron controls setup for Forgotten Worlds would still work; however, it would also reverse the Stick and spinner orientation, thus detracting from the feel of the gameplay, especially if you played this a lot and were accustomed to the original authentic setup.
GIZMOGAMES:
omg mad plannets that was my all time most played game and ikari warriors as a kid with dual spinner and shooter direction based controls ide love to see a conversion to be able to play it will now a days :( thanks for the memories :D
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spoot:
Zwackery had push/pull and joystick.
marioxb:

--- Quote from: zoup ---I have also been thinking about a dual monitor setup with one horizontal and one vertical. I imagine that even with the proper over under / dual monitor setup, prolly 97%+ of us use a button for "Duck" in Super Punchout rather than rig a pull joystick.
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Why didn't they just make it like NES punchout, pushing down to duck?
zoup:
So, on Friday, I popped one quarter into my local arcade's Forgotten Worlds To try out the original gameplay. It was intense. I  came to the conclusion that with the exception of the "store", you can really just hold the fire button down all the time. So using a regular 8  joystick with a spinner would work provided you could rest an elbow or.a book on a designated fire button. For whatever that's worth. Now in order to accommodate a two player game, you would need a 2nd spinner. Again, pretty intense game. It's hard to hold down the spinner while twisting it and you gotta spin fast as stuff is coming from all directions. As seen in the photo of the cab, it's actually the opposite orientation of Tron with the spinner to the right of the joystick. I'm gonna try a few control orientations including my mechanical rotary for comparison to the original.
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