Yoke controller games

[southpaw13]

Besides Star Wars (all three versions), and Stun Runner, which games us a yoke style control in Mame?  Also, it seems that all four buttons do the same thing on these games correct?

Thanks,
Southpaw

[southpaw13]

OK, I added Hydra, Road Blasters, and Vapor TRX.  Any others?

Southpaw

[paigeoliver]

Empire and Jedi also use the yoke.

They do have 4 buttons and all are wired independently and recognized independently by the hardware, depends on the game as to what they do. Some games do have more than one function.

The yoke controller is also good for ANY game that uses a pot controller. Like Paperboy, Out Run, positional gun games like Jurassic Park and the Exidy gun games.

I can answer a lot of yoke questions since I own all styles of yokes. Star Wars, STUN Runner, Road Blasters and Hydra.

Basically only the Hydra and Star Wars yokes are good mame ones, as STUN Runner only goes up and interfaces funny and Road Blasters does not go up/down at all.

[southpaw13]

OK, I'm not sure what Yoke I have, can you identify it?  I am also in need of a gear that goes on the pot.  Any suggestions?

Thanks for your help,
Southpaw

[southpaw13]

it's really built well.  Even the handles are metal.  Here is the picture of the back minus the gear that I need...

[paigeoliver]

That is Star Wars

[southpaw13]

Actually, after doing a little research, it is from a Data East game Apache 3...

Does anyone have a gear that that would fit, or would know how to get one?

Thanks...

[bdsjake]

there ought to be one thread sticky'd with links to threads like this:

all yoke games
spinner games
trackball games
4way vertical games with one button
8way 4p games with 4 buttons
360 racing games

ect

[southpaw13]

So what would we need to do to get it sticky'd?

[GGKoul]

There's already a sticky for this in the Everything Else Section.

http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=6;action=display;threadid=17208

[rchadd]

can yoke based games be played in mame using a trackball?

is there anything i need to setup to make it do this?

i just loved Star Wars as a kid.

[ChadTower]

I don't see how, it wouldn't give you the right type of control.  I mean, it could be done electrically I assume... but you'd not be able to do the multiaxis control the proper way with a ball.

[rchadd]

I don't see how, it wouldn't give you the right type of control.  I mean, it could be done electrically I assume... but you'd not be able to do the multiaxis control the proper way with a ball.

yoke is just an X-Y controller at the end of the day. unless it also has ability for Z axis push pull (dont think starwars one did)

i used to play starwars on amiga with a mouse - whats the difference?

does mame support playing starwars with mouse/trackball?

[ChadTower]

yoke is just an X-Y controller at the end of the day. unless it also has ability for Z axis push pull (dont think starwars one did)

i used to play starwars on amiga with a mouse - whats the difference?

does mame support playing starwars with mouse/trackball?

Yeah, it does, and it CAN be done... but at least for me, the control was so unintuitive with a ball that I gave up on it.  It could be because I used to spend hours and hours and hours in the arcades playing that one game and just wouldn't let my yoke instincts go.  I just wouldn't accept anything other than a yoke, I guess.

[JustMichael]

can yoke based games be played in mame using a trackball?

is there anything i need to setup to make it do this?

i just loved Star Wars as a kid.

Yes.  For command line Mame make sure "mouse" is set to 1 under "Input device options" in the Mame.ini file.  You will probably want to reverse the Y axis also once you are running Mame...

[paigeoliver]

You can play Star Wars with the mouse or trackball all day long, but it isn't even close. Recently got to play a working Star Wars cockpit with the 25" monitor and I did WAY better than I can ever do with a mouse/trackball. That got me motivated to work on my cockpit some more.