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Bursk:

For a while now I've been looking to make a list of games sorted by control category e.g. 49-way, Analog Stick etc, with the maximum number of buttons used by these games.  For example, a year ago (guess I work slowly) I made a list of the 49-way games supported by MAME:

Arch Rivals
Blaster
Gauntlet: Dark Legacy
Gauntlet Legends
NBA Showtime
NBA Showtime/NFL Blitz 2000
NFL Blitz
NFL Blitz 2000 Gold Edition
NFL Blitz '99
Pigskin 621AD
Sinistar

I briefly tried out each one and found that none of them use more than 3 buttons.  I had been using MAWS, but the info there isn't always accurate so I decided to check in MAME instead.  I also found it very useful to check the control panel pictures you can download for MAME, since many of them are taken from the original cabs.

The purpose of this is to help myself (and others) know what kind of control setup they'll need for a particular set of games.  The above example illustrates that you wouldn't want to design a 49-way capable CP with only 2 buttons if you wanted to play all the 49-way games.  Make sense so far?

I've been looking at the other control types on and off, but it's such a big task that I've found myself putting off doing it, due to the amount of time it'll take.  It doesn't take too long to load up a game, check the control scheme and play it briefly to double-check things, but when you're doing it with game after game, it quickly becomes tedious.

So I thought I'd see if the BYOAC community would like to help me complete my lists.  Like I said, 49-way is complete (although I should check if any more 49-way games have been added to MAME in the past year) but there are some categories left:

Analog Stick
Rotary Joystick
Spinner or 360 Steering Wheel (thought it'd make sense to put these two together. I'm working on the basis that you'll be using a button and not a pedal to accelerate in racing games)
270 Steering Wheel (maximum number of buttons needed could be a factor when deciding what 270 degree wheel to buy)

I'd really appreciate it if the community could take a look at some of these categories and post the results here.  I've already made a start on the spinner and 360 steering wheel games, and here's what I have so far:

720 Degrees
Arkanoid
Arkanoid - Revenge of DOH
Arkanoid Returns
Aztarac
Bad Lands
Blasteroids
Block Block
Boxing Bugs
Buggy Challenge
Cameltry
Championship Sprint
Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat
Ironman Ivan Stewart's Super Off-Road
Ironman Ivan Stewart's Super Off-Road Track Pack
Mad Planets
Off The Wall
Pong
Puchi Carat
Puzz Loop
Road Blasters
Super Sprint
Warlords

None of the above games use more than 3 buttons.  Since I've already made a start on this category, it would make sense if I continue with it for the time being.  I believe there's at least 25 games still to look at.

Please let me know if there's any interest.

NoOne=NBA=:

For spinner games, Star Trek will use 4 buttons.

Bursk:

Thanks, NoOne=NBA=.  This is the kind of help that will make life a lot easier for me (and hopefully everyone else, too).

ahofle:

Have you taken a look at the controls.dat project?  Not sure if that will help.
http://fe.donkeyfly.com/controls/controls.php

Silver:

Even better, try this page on the Controls.dat project.

Lists games sorted by control:

http://fe.donkeyfly.com/controls/gamesbycontrol.php

Note that controls.dat is based on what the games actually had in the arcade, which may differ to how they have been added to the games driver in mame. Also note that controls.dat does not cover every game in mame, but it can be regarded as extremely accurate for the info it does have.

 A lot of analog controls have been "hacked" into mame, although I believe this is now a *lot* better than it used to be. In fact I think the analog input side of mame has just been re-written in the past couple of versions by the rather talented Derrick Renaud...

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