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Tiger-Heli:

--- Quote from: Demon-Seed on March 17, 2004, 07:18:05 am ---Hello
I understand. Where can i find a list of what games require what type of joy?

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The 4-way problem is probably most noticeable in the Pac-Man type games - what happens:

Say you are moving right, but you accidentally move the stick Up-Right, activating both switches, the program (MAME) has to decide whether you meant to go up or continue right.  Half the time it guesses wrong, causing a delay, and allowing the ghosts to catch you.

A true four way stick only allows one switch to be pressed at a time, so diagonals are impossible.

As far as what games use which controls, MAME has this info if you use a frontend that can display it, or the sortinfo program, or the controls.dat file at http://fe.donkeyfly.com/controls/controls.php
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Or, worse yet, in games like Donkey Kong, it will just stop dead until you get the stick back to a single direction.

The Tron lightcycle stage is terrible with an 8-way as well.
The lightcycle starts zig-zagging uncontrollably if you hit the diagonals, which is almost impossible to avoid with an 8-way stick.
Demon-Seed:
Hi
So do you think it is wise to have 2-- 8 ways and one 4 way? What games require or rather work best with 4 way is there a list?

Spinners and trackball-I have no plans to put them on as I play no games that use them.. but just out of curosity what games use them?? how can i find this out to weight the pros vs cons of each control?

Any idea where I can get a cp templete????? or program to design the layout based on the size of CP  i want? there used to be a program floating around.

Thanks in advance
Jim
FractalWalk:

--- Quote from: Demon-Seed on March 17, 2004, 11:08:16 am ---So do you think it is wise to have 2-- 8 ways and one 4 way? What games require or rather work best with 4 way is there a list?

Spinners and trackball-I have no plans to put them on as I play no games that use them.. but just out of curosity what games use them??

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Since there are thousands of games, those questions can't be answered easily. Why don't you make a list of the games that you want to play and then check out www.klov.com to see what controls each one used.
Demon-Seed:
Hey
I will do that. Thanks
actually i think mame32 twill tell u as well. I see a few games are 2 way that I play.. 2 way??? what is that??? just left and right?? hmm 4 way seems to be used on a lot of classics where u move through mazes etc.. ie)pacman... 8 way is popular for newer games ie) MK3,.,,hmm gotta decide if its worth it to put a 4 way on.. dam decisions, decisions..ehehe
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