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goofy:

Does anyone else notice that Track and Field & Hypersports seem to have poor response on the buttons. I've played these games on two different computers in the last week and on both computers the button responses seem to be a lot worse than the arcade versions. It seems that the game has conflict when both running buttons get pressed simultaneously (when you are running really fast) and the jump button seems to be slow responding as well causing me to foul a lot.

Is this just me and my setups or is this something that can be fixed?

vader:

Goofy....I'm guessing it's somteing with your setup.  Right now I'm running in the mid 9's and jumping 8-9 foot.......which if what I recall is very close to what I did in the arcade many years ago ( and I was alot more coordinated back then )

What kind of encoder's are being used or are you using a keyboard hack..?

Tim



foomench:

IMHN(ewbie)O, it is your setup. I didn't notice any problems with Track & Field last time I played, although I will admit that was 0.7x MAME. In fact, after multiple games (hey, the price is right  ;) ), I was doing better than I did many years ago in the arcade. Sounds like a controls/encoder issue.
-foomench

goofy:

My first computer has a control panel I built about two years ago using HAPP parts and a keyboard hack. The second computer I was just using the keyboard that is on the computer with the keys reassigned to the arrow keys to make it easier to press. With the control panel version I was running 0.56b_dos and on the keyboard version I was using Mame32 v85. Both performed identically.

The way I press the buttons is to tap two fingers (pointer and middle) on each button, as if you were doing a drum roll with one hand using two fingers. I found that using this running/button pressing method in MAME, I actually run a lot faster just hitting one button instead of both--which is very different from how I used to do in the arcade.

It's very strang and frustrating because I love these two games.

Try this, run the game and doing the 100m dash, hold down one of the buttons and bang away at the other one. The result is that you will stop and not move. I think that's what is happening during my running style.

Is this a MAME issue or is this the way the original game really worked, or just a keyboard issue? Because in Word you can hold one key down and type others and the other keys will register.

Thanks in advance for any comments.

goofy:

Any ideas?

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