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| spriggy:
--- Quote from: Matthew Fisher on January 13, 2006, 12:18:33 pm ---Some of you may have noticed this (Kremmit, did I see you bidding?): http://cgi.ebay.com/NOS-Atari-MAJOR-HAVOC-Trackball-Roller-Controller_W0QQitemZ6242380692QQcategoryZ13718QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem :o ... --- End quote --- Sold: US $610.00 :o :o I need some smelling salts...stacked!! |
| Kremmit:
I tried the Kick(man) roller already. The problem with using a Kick(man) roller is that the encoder wheel only has like 13 teeth, and sits on a shaft that runs through the middle of the ball, so that one full revolution of the ball passes 13 teeth through the optics. The MH roller has a 24 tooth wheel, and it's attached to that small-diameter metal roller, that gets turned by the large-diameter green plastic roller. The diameter differential gives a gearing effect that causes a boatload of encoder teeth to pass through the optics for every turn of the roller. You could just jack up MAME's sensetivity to compensate, but you'll find out you get bad backspin trouble if you do. I did some MH testing doing the Opti-Wiz beta, and of the games I tried, it was the toughest to get playing right with no backspin. I sure wish Oscar had done his repros. :'( |
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