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SirPoonga:

FYI, you can do this with analog+ mame and a 49way, however I don't think there is a button push way of switching control patterns on the fly.  Just letting people know this isn;t a new idea, just a hardware version of something that's been done in software for some time.

RandyT:


--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on February 27, 2005, 10:57:09 pm --- While nice for standard 49 way...

   I personally see the additional features as purely a novelty.

  If playing a 2way game of  galaga... and you accidentally press down+diagnol left...
then your move will not register.  This will mean you will have made a costly pause.. and may have died as a result of the non action.

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Statements like these make me think the unwritten rule stating that one should have some real experience with something before "poo-poo"ing  it,  should actually be put in writing.

I'm not sure what you are referring to with the above, but I wholeheartedly assure you that this does NOT happen. 


--- Quote --- As for the way a 49 way responds..   its not quite as smooth and fast as a simple
wico leaf joystick.   Its resistence is higher with the rubber x...

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This may be.  I was referring to the one I have been working with, the Midway variety.  But this one is very smooth and very fast..

In fact I have a WICO leaf right in front of me and the two feel virtually identical.


--- Quote ---or in the case if the new
style 49ways... there is a center zone that is hard to get out of (same as an analog stick).

  I suppose this would be ok for a bartop if you wanted to play sinistar that bad.. and yet needed the other control ability without having the room to add the other controls... but other than that.. its not as good as the real mechanical solutions.


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Again,  you are comparing apples and oranges.   Forget what you think you know.  It doesn't apply here.

RandyT

NoOne=NBA=:


--- Quote from: Flinkly on February 27, 2005, 11:04:01 pm ---no one is forcing you to buy it
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I am NOT!

Popcorrin:

When you refer to raw49 and progressive49 is this similar to linear vs exponetial scaling?

NoOne=NBA=:


--- Quote from: RandyT on February 27, 2005, 11:30:27 pm ---Statements like these make me think the unwritten rule stating that one should have some real experience with something before "poo-poo"ing  it,  should actually be put in writing.
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Exactly why I asked the questions that I did earlier.
I was trying to learn how this device handles the "digital restriction" before posting my concerns about it.

That's the downside to "proprietary" information--if you don't RELEASE it, then nobody will KNOW it, which leads to speculative posts.



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