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Garvv

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What IS this thing...?!
« on: April 19, 2002, 08:15:52 am »
It looks like a cross between an arkanoid spinner and rotary joystick....I'm completely stumped!

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Re: What IS this thing...?!
« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2002, 08:32:47 am »
Did a Tron game have a push-button spinner?
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Re: What IS this thing...?!
« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2002, 09:06:04 am »
No that would not have come from any Tron game.

It's not really a spinner, I would call it a 4 way rotary direction control.

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Re: What IS this thing...?!
« Reply #3 on: April 19, 2002, 11:23:11 am »
Ihtink it is from a game I beleive by taito called frontline.
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Re: What IS this thing...?!
« Reply #4 on: April 19, 2002, 12:00:13 pm »
It looks like Ringlancer is correct.

I looked up Frontline on KLOV and it says the control is a "8-position switch with push-down button".

The same control was used on "Wild Western" and "The Tin Star".

If you check the KLOV listing for "The Tin Star", there is a picture of the CP.
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Re: What IS this thing...?!
« Reply #5 on: April 19, 2002, 12:29:49 pm »
This page has a good picture of the Wild Wsetern CP

http://howervision.com/arcade/wildwestern.html

The same guy also has Frontline.

http://howervision.com/arcade/frontline.html

Click on the CP image to see a larger version.

From these shots it appears that the control in question is from Wild Western, the Frontline control appears to have some text on it.

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Re: What IS this thing...?!
« Reply #6 on: April 19, 2002, 03:25:46 pm »
that is a taito frontline/wild western spinner.
I had 2 of them..both sold...but I can tell you anything about then...they are basically 8way rotary sticks...so in able to have them work corectly with mame you would need a circut like druins but a little more complex because youi either have 1 or 2 connections made at all times ... so..  heck I also had a nos original cpo for frontline and all of the controls....

any other questions just ask
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« Reply #7 on: April 21, 2002, 09:12:09 pm »
ahhh, good ol' frontline....i remember playing this game in the mall gameroom :D.  it was the predecessor to the awesome ikari warriors game.  i also believe that the game "forgotten worlds" also used this rotary spinner, you just held it down to fire, and rotated to aim accordingly.
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Re: What IS this thing...?!
« Reply #8 on: April 24, 2002, 05:16:00 pm »
I won it.. now to see if anything can be done with it :P

btw, are you sure about Forgotten Worlds? klov.com designates the Front Line 'spinner' as switched and the Forgotten Worlds 'spinner' as optical..?

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