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Kremmit:


--- Quote from: paigeoliver on March 11, 2007, 09:03:52 pm ---
Every 4 player game you ever played in the arcade had the sticks all facing the same way and not angled.

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Every game, except Mercs.

But I agree, I can't stand to play on the outside joysticks on my Mercs machine.  Angled joysticks are teh sux.

polaris:

edit, quote from paigeoliver
Now I do have one important bit of advice relating to that control panel you bought. See the joysticks for player 3 and 4? They are installed wrong. They are angled when they should be faced the same way as the other sticks. Every 4 player game you ever played in the arcade had the sticks all facing the same way and not angled. Matter of fact that could be one of the reasons the guy sold the panel since no one wanted to play player 3 or 4 since the sticks were wrong.

kinda disagree with this, i know im new around here but i thought the angled 3+4 layout was like that, as those players faced the machine at that angle ,therefore the joystick is in the correct alignment to the player facing it , like gauntlet, if you had a straight 4p control panel p3 = p4 would be really far from the screen.

Kremmit:


--- Quote from: polaris on March 12, 2007, 04:45:38 pm ---kinda disagree with this, i know im new around here but i thought the angled 3+4 layout was like that, as those players faced the machine at that angle ,therefore the joystick is in the correct alignment to the player facing it , like gauntlet, if you had a straight 4p control panel p3 = p4 would be really far from the screen.

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And yet, a Gauntlet machine mounts all 4 joys facing the same way, Up = towards the wall behind the machine, at a perfect 90 degree angle.  Mercs is the only game (AFAIK) that came with sticks mounted angled.  If you never noticed the mounting orientation  when you were playing Gauntlet or some other 4player game, that just goes to show you that the standard orientation feels natural.  And I can attest that the angled mounting definitely does not feel right, at least to me.

parpunk:

hmm ok yea ill look into this. anything i can do to make them correct if they are angled wrong? Plus will it be easy? I bought a control panel because i didnt think i would be able to make one myself. geesh now new problems  :-\

polaris:


--- Quote from: Kremmit on March 12, 2007, 05:27:52 pm ---
--- Quote from: polaris on March 12, 2007, 04:45:38 pm ---kinda disagree with this, i know im new around here but i thought the angled 3+4 layout was like that, as those players faced the machine at that angle ,therefore the joystick is in the correct alignment to the player facing it , like gauntlet, if you had a straight 4p control panel p3 = p4 would be really far from the screen.

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And yet, a Gauntlet machine mounts all 4 joys facing the same way, Up = towards the wall behind the machine, at a perfect 90 degree angle.  Mercs is the only game (AFAIK) that came with sticks mounted angled.  If you never noticed the mounting orientation  when you were playing Gauntlet or some other 4player game, that just goes to show you that the standard orientation feels natural.  And I can attest that the angled mounting definitely does not feel right, at least to me.

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i stand corrected if this is so but i honestly seem to remember that the p3/p4 up on gauntlet were turned through 90 degress so up was away but youre saying they were all oriented directly to the movement on screen. hey it was 20 years ago so im not getting into arguments i could well be wrong, gutted though i wanted to do a 4 player of that layout. sorry if im using this thread to answer my questions ,they just seem on topic to me.

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