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Curious - your control settings for Asteroids
RTSDaddy2:
Well, I got tired last night of trying to play Asteroids with my joystick...and after looking at the original CP, I remembered it was more button driven than stick driven. I switched the controls in MAME so that the rotate ship controls were button driven and watched my score increase dramatically.
Curious though - how many of you also set up Asteroids to play this way?
MikeQ:
Mine is setup this way. I use buttons from the player one side for rotate left/right and buttons from the player two side for thrust, fire, hyperspace.
pmc:
I think we just did this thread a week or two ago. Most people preferred buttons if I recall. Maybe it was Space Invaders that was being discussed.
Check out AsteroidsGL. I like it better than MAME.
BTW, I still play with a stick because it feels comfortable and the controls default that way so I never changed it.
-pmc
ArtMAME:
Hey, I set up my controls for Asteroids that way. In fact, that was one of the biggest reasons I designed my CP layout like I did. It is basically the Asteroids buttons layout (plus an extra button a few inches above the Hyperspace) , plus a Joystick on either side for Robotron. If you look on at my avatar, you can see a very early prototype of my layout with a baby Elmo tapping on the keyboard. I have made a few revisions to my CP since then, but my main design still revolves greatly around the Asteroids/Robotron oriented layout. Asteroids ROCKS!!!...Rock On Dude!!! 8)
ahofle:
I just changed mine about 2 weeks ago to use only buttons (player 1 buttons for movement, and player 2 buttons for the rest) after reading about it here. I love it.