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GGKoul:

Hello

I'm looking for a list of games that use dual 8 way games per player?  

As I'm going to add dual 4/8 way joystick to my next panel.  And I just want to know if it would be best to add one 4/8 way joystick and a 4/8 way top fire joystick.  Or 2 - 4/8 way joystick per player?

Thanks for your feedback!
-GGKoul




jerryjanis:

I used the SortInfo program to make a little web page to help find out stuff like this.  You can check it out at http://jstookey.com/arcade/sortinfo/index.php .  The searches that I did below do not include clones.  Also, this list is generated from the Mame's listinfo, which is not always correct or accurate, so this list might be missing some games, and misrepresenting some others.  In general, though, it's a VERY good place to start when getting a list together.


Here's a list of Dual 8way games:
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http://jstookey.com/arcade/sortinfo/index.php?num_switches=1&do_search=1&switch0=control&operator0=%3D&switchvalue0=doublejoy8way

Angel Kids (Japan) (angelkds)
Apocaljpse Now (aponow)
Bandido (bandido)
Black Widow (bwidow)
Cloak & Dagger (French) (cloakfr)
Complex X (complexx)
Crazy Climber (Japan) (cclimbrj)
Crazy Climber 2 (Japan) (cclimbr2)
Dribbling (dribling)
Front Line (frontlin)
Indoor Soccer (idsoccer)
Inferno (inferno)
Joyful Road (Japan) (joyfulr)
Krull (krull)
Libble Rabble (liblrabl)
Lost Tomb (easy) (losttomb)
Mars (mars)
Minefield (minefld)
Rescue Raider (rescraid)
Robotron (Solid Blue label) (robotron)
Rock Climber (rockclim)
Screw Loose (prototype) (screwloo)
Smash T.V. (rev 4.00) (smashtv4)
Space Dungeon (sdungeon)
Space Position (Japan) (spcpostn)
Splat! (splat)
Star Guards (stargrds)
Stompin' (stompin)
The Return of Ishtar (roishtar)
The Tin Star (tinstar)
Total Carnage (prototype, rev 1.0 01/25/92) (totcarnp)
Ultra Tank (ultratnk)
Water Match (wmatch)
Wild Western (set 1) (wwestern)

And some dual 4 way games:
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http://jstookey.com/arcade/sortinfo/index.php?num_switches=1&do_search=1&switch0=control&operator0=%3D&switchvalue0=doublejoy4way

Fire Trap (Japan bootleg) (firetpbl)
Karate Champ (US VS version) (kchampvs)

GGKoul:

Great Website!!!  It's going to answer lots of peoples questions!!

-GGKoul

Danny R:

Is a good website, but I think it messes up on multiple control games.  

I try putting in paddle or dial as one control and joystick as another, and expect to find a Tron game show up, but get nothing.


jerryjanis:


--- Quote from: Danny R on April 06, 2004, 09:54:25 am ---Is a good website, but I think it messes up on multiple control games.  

I try putting in paddle or dial as one control and joystick as another, and expect to find a Tron game show up, but get nothing.
--- End quote ---

You're right.  The source of the information comes from running mame with the "--listinfo" command line switch.  The information is based on what's in the driver code.  Here is the listinfo control data for Discs of Tron:

input ( players 1 control trackball buttons 4 coins 2 tilt yes )

As you can see, this game is suffering from 2 problems - the control is called a trackball, when it should be called a dial, and also multiple control types are not listed.  Perhaps one day, the listinfo can be expanded to handle mutliple controls, and the individual drivers can be fixed to use display proper controls.

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