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Have just built the perfect spinner...easy and cheap..very solid feel
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--- Quote from: rdagger on May 02, 2006, 02:48:37 pm ---Very clever.
How does Arkanoid play?
How does Tempest play?
I suppose the diameter of the pipe would have a direct effect on the game play.
Did you experiment with other pipe materials to see the effects of different reflective surfaces?
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--- Quote from: alexandro98 on May 02, 2006, 03:58:54 pm ---Whoa, nice!
Im curious about resolution.
Anyone know what the resolution of a typical optical mouse?
Isnt it something like XXX per inch. So if the pipe is So many Inch around (diamter or is that radius or circumference ??? ) times the resolution per inch.
Hmm wonder what this resolution is comparted to a normal spinner, say slikstik or the GGG spinner.
And I wonder what resolution and pipe diameter we could have to combine to get a close to Arkanoid spinner resolution..
Anyone want to try to figure out the math on this one, because my head hurts! :dizzy:
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I'm also curious about resolution. I've always thought (from advertisements that I've seen) that optical mice had a higher resolution than ball mice, but I can't be sure. I thought of a quick test that we might able to do though, if not to actually measure, at least to compare, resolution.
Rollerball, could you do 3 things with your new spinner and post the results here?
First, in Arkanoid, put the vaus (paddle) all the way to the left of the screen, then turn your spinner slowly until the vaus just touches the right side. Roughtly how much of a rotation, or how many rotations, of the spinner did it take to get the vaus all the way to the right?
Then in Tempest, check 2 things. In Level 1 (just so we know exactly what level to compare), how much of a rotation of the spinner does it take to make one revolution around the tempest grid? And then vice versa, how many revolutions around the tempest grid do you get from exactly one 360 degree rotation of the spinner?
Now, somebody with a Tornado, and somebody with a GGG spinner do these exact same tests and post the results.
And just for further comparison, maybe somebody with a home-built ball-type mouse hack spinner do these same tests and post the results.
Oh, and just to make sure everybody's comparing the same, before you do these tests make sure the sensitivity on the spinner on each game is set to the original MAME default in case you've changed it for your personal preference. (If there is a spinner sensitivity setting in MAME. I'm still new enough to it that I don't know for sure yet.)
I'm very interested to see the results!! Not exactly science and by no means a firm indication of one over the other, but should at least give an idea. I wish I could provide some test results myself but unfortunately I don't have any spinner myself yet.
rollerball:
Yeah Im only guessing but I would say the size of the pipe will make a difference...but you can change the mouse sensitivity under windows control panel...im using windows 98....and have played with the settings a bit.....as ive said my spinner is not in my cp as of yet....Im at work at the moment but from what I rember from last night test when I was on arkanoid from one side of the screen to the other was like if you had a mark on the top of a dial and your paddle was in the middle then the paddle on screen would be all the way right as your mark is pointin right....at 3 o clock and all the way left was about 9 o clock....but dont quote me on that....but thats how I rember it....and pole position played well too.....but playing with the settings would get different results Im sure of that....so can just adjust to each persons preference I guess..
rollerball:
Oh yeah everone Ive never had a spinner before and barely rember playing spinner games from back in the day.....so if someone builds this and dosent like it then sorry...lol....but from what I have gotten out of it so far seems to be good to me....for gameplay wise it feels fine...but im not the best judge I guess....
Fozzy The Bear:
--- Quote from: rollerball on May 03, 2006, 12:56:06 am ---from what I have gotten out of it so far seems to be good to me....
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Isn't that the only thing that matters!! If it works for you then it's good to go!!
Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)
rdagger:
I just picked up a travel mouse by Targus (Model # PAUM01U) that would be perfect because it is much smaller than a regular mouse.