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Track & Field and Hypersports seem to have slow responsiveness

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RacerX:

I find that I run slower using two buttons as well.  But I can blaze using one.

I have a friend, however, that can get on my cab, use two buttons and blow me away.  So he's doing something different than I'm doing.

Maybe you're just having delusions of grandeur about how fast you used to be?   ;)

foomench:

I tried the holding the one button down as mentioned above and didn't move if I held one button down first and then used the other. If started running and then held a button down I didn't stop, but was slowed significantly.

I did poorly with one button, fine with two. I use two hands with index fingers kind of like a drum roll. Now I need to time that hammer throw better.

-foomench

Inaba:

Heh...

I know exactly the problem you describe, and it flummoxed me at first as well.

The problem isn't with your hardware (or probably isn't) - it's actually the version of Hypersports/T&F that you are using.

One or two of the versions of Hypersports and T&F that are out there suffer from the one button = faster syndrome, while one of the others does not.

Try '88 games (Which is basically an updated Hypersports) - and see if the problem goes away.  I bet it does.

Try a different version of Hypersports and Track and Field, again, I'm betting the problem will go away.  

Out of about 10 different T&F and '88 Games derivitives I have, approximately half behave really funky when trying to press multiple buttons.



foomench:

This should probably go on a MAME forum then, but since I'm here ... I've been using trackfld. I see there are three other ROM versions.

-foomench

Minwah:

So to run are you supposed to hit the 2 buttons alternatively (sorry, I never played it back in the day  :-[ ) ?  Last time I played it I found I was best just hitting 1 button fast.

OT Anyone remember Daley Thompsons Supertest on the 8-bits?  A right joystick-breaker :)

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