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Tetris: 4-way or 8?
JoyMonkey:
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--- Quote from: qbert247 on July 06, 2005, 01:53:47 am ---BTW, moon shuttle is a wierd 5-way.
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Not to hi-jack the thread, but can you describe this a little further?
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I'm curious about this too. The manual mentions a 5-way joystick, but the joystick assembly looks like an 8 way.
http://www.arcadedocs.com/vidmanuals/M/MoonShuttle.pdf
2600:
--- Quote from: JoyMonkey on July 06, 2005, 01:43:57 pm ---
--- Quote from: jcroach on July 06, 2005, 09:39:35 am ---
--- Quote from: qbert247 on July 06, 2005, 01:53:47 am ---BTW, moon shuttle is a wierd 5-way.
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Not to hi-jack the thread, but can you describe this a little further?
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I'm curious about this too. The manual mentions a 5-way joystick, but the joystick assembly looks like an 8 way.
http://www.arcadedocs.com/vidmanuals/M/MoonShuttle.pdf
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Looks like, you were on the right track JoyMonkey. Look at the schematic, it only connects up,down, and right. Therefore it only can see 5 directions. The joystick itself seems to be a normal 8-way. I don't know if they actually connected the 4th microswitch or not and there doesn't appear to be any kind of restrictor.
Edit: Something possibly to make note of in Controls.Dat
JoyMonkey:
Back to the topic; the Tetris manual says that the conversion kit comes with two 4-way sticks, but the Jamma table says that up is not connected (so it's a 3-way):
http://www.arcadedocs.com/vidmanuals/T/tetris-kit-manual.pdf
Q*Bert_OP:
--- Quote from: jcroach on July 06, 2005, 09:39:35 am ---
--- Quote from: qbert247 on July 06, 2005, 01:53:47 am ---BTW, moon shuttle is a wierd 5-way.
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Not to hi-jack the thread, but can you describe this a little further?
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up, down, forward(right), up/right, down/right
and it does look just like an 8-way stick, except it has a restrictor plate only allowing movement in 5 directions, and only 3 microswitches