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Games worth having an analog joystick for?
RandyT:
--- Quote from: haynor666 on February 08, 2024, 04:33:55 am ---Topic a bit old but worth to refresh.
I have analog flight joystick and it works well for flight games like After Burner, Air Rescue. It does not work well however for Food Fight, Sinistar, Escape from the Planet of Robot Monsters or I, Robot. I was wondering what games uses actuall analog joystick but visually looks and plays as regular 8/4 way joystick? Sinistar and Food Fight actually has such one.
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Food Fight was analog, but Sinistar used the Williams version of a 49-way joystick. While full analog sticks can be mapped to provide the same positional granularity as a 49-way stick, the 49-ways had their own unique feel in operation, due to the way they were built and some titles relied on this to an appreciable extent. This cannot be replicated through software.
That said, any 49-way title can be played with analog, as well as those which used other types of analog controls, such as StarWars and similar. But one analog-controlled game I used to play in my early youth was Tail Gunner. It just used the stick for the aiming cursor, but it's more authentic with a stick than with a trackball.
haynor666:
Interesting. I MAME stick is listed as analog. I knew about such joystick as 49 way but didn't know Sinistar uses such. Anyway since it's not possible to replicate this in MAME U360 wil have to suffice.