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Anybody know what is unique about the Sinistar controls?
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MPTech:
HC, thanks for the enlightenment.

--- Quote ---With respect mptech, learn how to use mame
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I thought that is what I was doing.
I did a google search and came up short and searched this site for similar questions, no explanation in the posts I read.
I don't know what a 49-way is, except that it is more than my 8-way(?) and not what I have or probably want to purchase for the few games I would need it for.  I know that there are ways around some of these handicaps, so I asked.  (if I didn't want to learn it, I'd be asking someone else to do it)

I have read everything I can find on the FAQs, MAME, MAMEWAH, emulators, etc etc etc, in fact, I print them and save them in a binder for off-line reviewing (quite a big binder!).  This site and the extremely knowledgable folks are the single best resource.  Sorry if some of the questions appear newbie, but I've only been at this for less than a year and I anticipate learning for a very long time.

I truely appreciate the help here.  Thanks!

I guess I won't be playing Sinistar, and that's OK, now that I know the issue.  Next cab..............................................
 :cheers:
Howard_Casto:
Well I don't mean to insult you but if you have been doing this for over a year you are a pretty slow learner.  ;)

I mean the first thing anyone would do when a game isn't responding to input would be to press tab and go into the games controls and see if anything is off. 

Don't act like I was being a jerk because I wasn't.  That was legitimate advice.  Knowing about the input menu is first day stuff. 
Tiger-Heli:
I think HC's replies were a little abrasive.  The forum is here for people to ask questions.

Having said that . . .


--- Quote from: MPTech on September 10, 2006, 05:26:32 pm ---I don't know what a 49-way is, except that it is more than my 8-way(?) and not what I have or probably want to purchase for the few games I would need it for.

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Well, the fact that I explained it above and you still don't understand it is kinda discouraging.  You could also check out http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/Joysticks#49-Way_Joysticks and the rest of the WIKI.

--- Quote ---I guess I won't be playing Sinistar, and that's OK, now that I know the issue.  Next cab..............................................
 :cheers:

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You could always try it with either an Analog joystick or re-mapping the controls so the X-Arcade works with it.  It won't be arcade accurate, but if you've never seen it before . . .   Your choice, though.
Howard_Casto:

--- Quote from: Tiger-Heli on September 11, 2006, 06:46:53 am ---I think HC's replies were a little abrasive.  The forum is here for people to ask questions.

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Well you think wrong.   ;D

This is a "teach a man to fish" forum, not a "give a man a fish" forum. 

There is a point where visitors should get their hands dirty a little and actually try to find a solution themselves rather than post a question immediately after something doesn't automagically work for them. Even the lack of mame menu knowledge aside, a person could get some info about sinistar's controls with a google search or a look over at klov.  If this was the guys first post, I would have been much nicer, but it's been a while he needs to be getting a grasp on the basics by now.   

I wouldn't have made it a point to say so except that you call my response abrasive in the first sentence, and then elude to what I was getting at originally in your next.

Nicer words don't change your meaning man.  ;)
MiKman:
Well I like to think I have been aound the block for awhile and believe it or not I am quite computer literate but I have no idea what HC is attempting to elude to with the following comment.


--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on September 10, 2006, 01:34:26 pm ---49 way games are mapped to the ad_stick. 

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either way HC's posts generally come across as abrasive.  Not that he intends them to be.
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