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Unplayable games with simple control panel
Kremmit:
--- Quote from: jcroach on March 23, 2005, 09:04:00 am ---Is Karate Champ, or other dual 4-waygames, impossible to play with 8-way joysticks?
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They will not be IMPOSSIBLE, but they will not play WELL.
--- Quote ---Are there many games that require digital joysticks?
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Standard joysticks ARE digital joysticks.
--- Quote ---Are games that require rotary joysticks, like Ikari Warriers, impossible to play with an 8-way joystick and a spinner?
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You will not like trying to play these games with a spinner.
--- Quote ---How about these 49-way joysticks and "perfect 360s" that I've been reading about? What's the benifit of these?
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No_One already covered the 49-ways.. they'd make a good replacement for your 8-ways, since they do 8-way, 4-way, 2-way, etc. You will need GroovyGameGear's new 49-way interface, one per stick to get this functionality.
Perfect 360s are super-fancy digital sticks. They will not enable any games that you cannot play with regular sticks. You may prefer them for other reasons: They're quiet, reliable, and have a good feel during gameplay. (heavy spring recommended)
You might also consider the T-Stick+, or the Prodigy, as replacements for your 8-ways. They switch between 8-way and 4-way operation, without opening up the control panel and messing about. They don't cover 49-way, or low resolution analog like the 49-ways, but they don't require a special interface, either.
--- Quote ---Can you use an analog or 8-way joystick for Atari games that used a "Hall Effect" joystick?
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No_One already covered why you don't want to use an 8-way on these. An analog will work well on games that used an analog, hall, or 49-way joy. A 49-way will work well on games that used 49-ways, pretty well on games that used a hall, pretty well on some that used an analog, and lousy on other analog games.
--- Quote ---Games I know will be next to impossible to play include:
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paigeoliver:
And to make things worse, most flicker joy games require 2 of them usually facing in different directions. One game REQUIRES dual trackballs and a flicker joy (Baseball title, I can't recall the name at the moment).
Snake pit needs an interesting layout as well. I seem to recall 4-way topfire with trackball.
Some dualjoy games need one two be a topfire.
Assault needs a pair of topfire 4-ways.
Sprint 8 needs 8 spinners/wheels, 16 pedals and 8 4 position shifters!
Lucky and Wild needs some craziness too. (Steering wheel, pedals and GUN, might have had a shifter too).
Wizard of Wor needs a pair of 9-ways for two player (4-way joys with 2 levels of sensitivity in each direction).
Hmmm, I wonder if Groovygamegear can add Wizard of Wor support to their 49-way encoder?