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| jacob:
right, so i've been looking up how to put a Rotary joy on the mame cab. Asfar as ican tell you need an interface board and a rotary joy. OK. Here's the question. I noticed that ikari worriors and the like will allow me to use a trackball to act as a rotary joy, so does this mean that i could jsut make/buy a spinner and stick one of hte old ikari warriors joy tops on it and it would work basically the same? Or is there some huge flaw in that plan. I have no idea when it comes to electronics. i don't even have a cabinet or a spinner yet, jsut trying to figure out control scheme. thanks for any help |
| jerryjanis:
Yes, there's a huge flaw in that plan. The Ikari Warriors joystick is an 8-way joystick. In ADDITION, it has the ability to rotate clockwise/counterclockwise. In other words, you can look at it as though the Ikari Warriors joystick were an 8-way joystick and a spinner all in one. (not that you would want to play Arkanoid with it or driving games - it's a positional rotary knob, which means that if you spin it 360 degrees, then what you get out of it is 12 'clicks' - which MAME will handle as 12 separate button presses. A spinner gives you the smooth and sweet Arkanoid style spinning for that kind of activity.) The cool thing about the joystick is that it really adds very special functionality for the games that use it. You can run in one direction and aim/shoot in an independant direction. I have the SNK LS-30 joysticks ($15 per joystick). If I could make a recommendation, it would be to spend 3 times as much on the Happs rotary joystick, because the SNK LS-30 (original Ikari Warriors arcade joysticks) are not well suited to all-purpose joysticks. I've read here that the Happs joysticks feel exactly like an ultimate joystick (which is pretty darned good). |
| jricker:
--- Quote --- I have the SNK LS-30 joysticks ($15 per joystick). --- End quote --- |
| Tiger-Heli:
Hi, First off, just to clarify. The previous posts referred only to the SNK-30 and Happs mechanical rotary joysticks. These are the only ones that give you a click-feel as you are rotating the controls. The Happs optical is similar to a very high friction arkanoid spinner on a Happs Super. The stick could ALMOST be used for arkanoid, but you wouldn't want it for Tempest. The mechanical sticks require Druin's www.connect.to/rotary (and then prolly link to the mirror) interface and some sort of keyboard encoder. You would probably also want the custom MAME build that mc-escher is working on. (search for rotary game list). The opticals connect the same as a trackball, either through an opti-pac, ME4, Happs interface kit, or a mouse hack. Of course, they also require some kind of encoder for the joystick switches. |
| jerryjanis:
I don't know which you should go with. I would imagine that the mechanical rotary joysticks work just like the real Ikari Warriors joystick did, only with a better 8-way joystick attached. I'm sure that there would be something really wonderful and creative that you could do with the optical rotary joystick, but I personally have no idea. It would probably work fine with MAME, but instead of Druin's Rotary Interface card, you would need to use an Opti-Pac, or some other analog input encoder. I wonder what owners of the optical rotary joystick think about it? |
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