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--- Quote from: Bluedeath on November 24, 2006, 10:06:48 am ---Try to use mame analog+ and map rotary directions to the position of the joystick so when you hit a direction the caracther will turn to that direction.

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It won't work; it will mess up once per rotation.  The game tracks the direction in 12, and you can only map 8 of them with your stick.  When you go from the highest mapped to the lowest mapped direction or vise versa, you'd expect the game to rotate back 7 (from direction 8 to direction 1), but the game thinks it rotated 5 the other direction (from direction 8 up through direction 12 roll over to direction 1) since this is the shorter route.  You'll be facing the opposite direction.


--- Quote from: greaser on December 11, 2006, 07:14:20 pm ---Eureka! Found a strange glitch that makes it possible to use an 8-way joystick to move and shoot in all directions:

If there is a button assigned on your cpanel to rotate the character (dial increase/decrease) hold that button down while holding up on your joystick. If you release the dial button at just the right moment (when your character is facing up then you can magically use the joystick to move/shoot in 8 directions. this is not an exact science but it does work.

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I too can't get this work, either.  Did you do any remapping of the inputs, too, or something else?

greaser:

It's sort of hit n' miss fellas. I got it to work several times though. May have something to do with dial speed perhaps. It seems like a glitch in a way. But I have gotten it to work I assure you.

destructor:

Do you use official MAME? What version?

I use mameplus (wolfmameplus).

greaser:

Actually running Mame32 109 with MameWah as frontend. I swear to you guys that I'v gotten this to work. Surprised at how short the game is compared to the NES version. Haven't gotten this "trick" to work on any other rotary joystick games yet though.

ike:

When I was kid I have played a lot this game. It was my favorite.
I have played on regular arcade machine without rotary control.

To change control from rotary to 8-way(or maybe 4-way) you should:
1. Use MAME32 0.112.  MAME 32 Plus! did NOT work!(this is due protection from "joystick
error" see 6.)
2. Use rom Guerrilla War (bootleg) | gwarb.zip
3. Run game.
4. When game is fully loaded hold F2 (service mode) and press F3 (reboot).
5. When you enter service mode press F2 twice.
6. Adjust P1 DIAL to 13-th position 1Q (between 5 and 6) using X or Z .

http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/2174/0000qn3.png
7. Press F3 (reboot)
8. Enjoy

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