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Arcade games you can play with a Star Wars Yoke
wp34:
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--- Quote from: wp34 on January 25, 2021, 07:13:38 pm ---Apache 3 is playable. I've never played this one so I have no idea how accurate it is.
https://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=6893
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Looking at the contrtols in MAME, you can map the helicopter cyclic control (stick for X-axis and Y-axis, front and center - pilot's right hand) to the yoke, but there's also a helicopter collective control (Z-axis pitch+throttle lever. left side of the pilot's seat - pilot's left hand) that could make a big difference in gameplay.
The Apache 3 upright cab used an analog pedal for the collective/throttle.
Scott
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Thanks Scott. I didn't notice the throttle in the pictures. But I did just notice from your picture there is a foot pedal.
Korbin:
FireFox (Atari) Laser Disc Game (playable in MAME and Daphne) uses the same Flight Yoke as Start Wars, ESB and ROTJ.
Vocalitus:
Star Fire
Mach 3
Cobra Command
Cube Quest
F15 Strike Eagle (Had to research that one)
Arkanoid
Kick
Missile Command
Marble Madness (maybe)
Hard Drivin (and sequels)
18 Wheeler
PowerDrift
Outrun
Tempest
I'm sure others will work. It just a spring restricted mouse.
PL1:
--- Quote from: Vocalitus on February 01, 2021, 02:39:59 am ---It just a spring restricted mouse.
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Sorry, but that's not correct. :banghead:
The only yoke-shaped controller I can think of that is a spring restricted mouse is the oddball one from Road Blasters.
- There's no Y-axis movement so it's really more of a steering wheel than a true yoke.
- It uses an optical encoder wheel and optical circuits to output a quadrature waveform that the optical (mouse) encoder translates into relative position movements, exactly like an arcade spinner.
AFAIK all of the other yokes use potentiometers (arcade controllers) or Hall Effect sensors (newer controllers from A1UP and GRS) to output an analog voltage based on the pot/sensor position that is translated into an absolute position value by the analog encoder, exactly like an analog joystick or positional gun.
Mouse (relative position) =/= analog joystick. (absolute position)
MAME (and some encoders IIRC) can translate inputs from one type of control into a decent imitation of another type of control, but that does not make them the same thing.
- Some games will play well enough for some people's taste with a different type of controller, but some will not. i.e. Some people like to play Star Wars with a trackball instad of a yoke. :dunno :lol
Scott
negative1:
--- Quote from: Vocalitus on February 01, 2021, 02:39:59 am ---Arkanoid
Kick
Missile Command
Marble Madness (maybe)
Tempest
I'm sure others will work. It just a spring restricted mouse.
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if you're going to just start listing random trackball and spinner games, why bother.
this sounds like the worst possible way to play any of these games.
there's no way you can do the proper acceleration and angles needed for any of these.
later
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