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help with game list for dedicated 4 way joystick only cabinet
Kremmit:
If you call that playable. ;)
BSR:
And by 'playable' I mean retains a level of fun and ability to play somewhat competitively (make the highscore board).
With the above setup I'd be able make Fortran. It's the lightcycles I have the most trouble with and they don't even use a spinner.
paigeoliver:
Here, this is the list of true 4-way vertical list with 2 buttons or less. This game is edited to remove clones, and pseudo-clones (like Crazy Kong), and non-working games, and a couple things that are just complete defective garbage (40-Love).
If you are doing a 4-way cabinet then you will want a vertical cabinet.
Ali Baba and 40 Thieves
Amidar
Anteater
Armored Car
Astro Blaster
Astro Fighter
Astro Invader
Bagman
Balloon Bomber
Black Hole
Burger Time
Carnival
Cavelon
Checkman
Circus Charlie
Commando
Congo Bongo
Cosmic Guerilla
Cosmos
Crush Roller
Dazzler
Defend the Terra Attack on the Red UFO (bootleg)
Devil Fish
Dig Dug
Dig Dug II
Disco No.1
Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong 3
Donkey Kong Junior
Dream Shopper
Eyes
Faster Harder More Challenging Q*bert (prototype)
Frogger
Galaga
Galaxian
Galaxy Wars
Gals Panic
Guzzler
Heiankyo Alien
Intrepid
Invader's Revenge
Invinco / Head On 2
Joust 2 - Survival of the Fittest
Jr. Pac-Man
Jump Coaster
Jumping Jack
Jungler
Kicker
King & Balloon
Lady Bug
Lasso
Levers
Lock'n'Chase
Loco-Motion
Logger
Lunar Rescue
Mappy
Marvin's Maze
Mikie
Minky Monkey
Monster Bash
Moon Alien Part 2
Moon Quasar
Mr. Do!
Mr. Do's Castle
Mr. F. Lea
Mr. Jong
Mr. TNT
Ms. Pac-Man
Mysterious Stones
Naughty Boy
New Rally-X (Vertical)
Ozma Wars
Pac & Pal
Pac-Man
Pac-Man Plus
Pengo
Pickin'
Pisces
Pleiads
Pooyan
Pop Flamer
Pulsar
Q*bert
Q*bert's Qubes
Qix
Return of the Invaders
Roc'n Rope
Route 16
SWAT
Samurai Nihon-ichi
Satan's Hollow
Scrambled Egg
Sindbad Mystery
Solar Fox
Son of Phoenix
Space Invaders
Space Invaders Part II
Space Laser
Space Panic
Springer
Stratovox
Streaking
Super Bagman
Super Pac-Man
Super Space Invaders '91
Tank Battalion
The Electric Yo-Yo
The End
The Glob
Tomahawk 777
Tower of Druaga
Triple Punch
Van Van Car
Warp & Warp
Wiping
Zzyzzyxx
There are also some decent horizontal games that stretch to vert well. Like Moon Patrol. And then there are some games like Zoo Keeper and Tapper which look bad stretched, but look decent letterboxed.
BSR:
I had been going through the lists of 4way and 8way games and have noticed some discrepancies.
For instance, the control.dat project has a Bagman and Super Bagman listed as 4way.
I recompiled Mame, restricting the game to 4way control with PORT_4WAY. At first the game seemed fine, but then I noticed it became nearly impossible to make the turns to the point of being unplayable.
Can anyone confirm that Bagman does indeed use a four way joystick?
paigeoliver:
Bagman uses a Wico 4-way allright. A wico 4-way can hit the diagonals in a tiny zone.
The problem is the idiot 8-way to 4-way predictor code in Mame. I would love to see that stripped out completely so you can just play the game with the proper controls.
After all, I thought Mame was about documentation, if it is about documentation then why does it have built in hacks to make the games the Mamedevs THINK are 4-way more playable with an 8-way stick.
As for your particular issue, are YOU indeed using a 4-way joystick?
Also, if you have a real 4-way then there is no reason to custom compile all the mame mistakes to the proper 4-way sticks (as all that does, iirc, is activate improper blocking code).