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Games worth having an analog joystick for?
BadMouth:
Not talking about a flight stick. I have one of those and discovered that I don't like ANY of the jet flying games.
Are there any arcade games worth adding an analog joystick for? (plain old battop or similar)
I'm getting in the tinkering mood again. I bought an analog stick out of a baseball game to mess around with.
It has a D shaped restrictor and is spring loaded in one direction, but it could be modified for full motion.
Not sure if any of the games it was used in are emulated.
The real reason I bought it was to get the part numbers off the pots and see if I could make a DIY version incorporating Sanwa JLF or similar parts.
Was also eying N64 replacement joysticks: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ANGDCDS/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=37OS8ZOB96163&coliid=I83A4W4MXVE2U
Cheap and small enough to be unobtrusive on a CP.
The satisfaction of tinkering with it is probably worth $10 to me.
Malenko:
if you had 2 you could play games like virtual on. You say Analog, I think console games not arcade games. Like geometry wars
geeteoh:
Star Wars is top on my list. There is s more complete list here in our wiki on joysticks.
http://newwiki.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?title=Joysticks
BadMouth:
I have a panel with 2 trigger sticks. Haven't really used it much, but the controls in Virtual On were screwed up in model 2 emulator. IIRC, Howard's Troubleshooter 2 program addressed it, but I haven't gone back to give it a try.
There only seems to be a few regular joystick games in the wiki list.
The 49-way games look more interesting.
I'll have to bring them up in MAME and see if the controls are set up in such a way that they'd benefit from analog sticks.
Minwah:
--- Quote from: BadMouth on September 17, 2015, 02:11:09 pm ---Not talking about a flight stick. I have one of those and discovered that I don't like ANY of the jet flying games.
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What about Space Harrier?
Flight sticks are a good alternative to yoke too...eg Star Wars as geeteoh mentioned. Thunder Ceptor is pretty good. Plus things like Paperboy...
I like Tunnel Hunt, although the calibration seems to be off.
Road Runner is worth a go - that's just a balltop type.
49-way games play well with an analog stick. If you like those, it's worth having an analog stick IMO.