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4 way joystick a necessity?
juggle50:
In my opinion, if you really love to play the classics (even if your not an expert) you have to get a dedicated 4 way stick.
MaximRecoil:
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--- Quote from: MaximRecoil on April 20, 2007, 12:17:05 pm ---Consider that when these games appear on commercial discs for consoles, like the Namco Museum discs, they are expected to be used with an 8-way D-pad obviously, since I don't know of any consoles that come with dedicated 4-ways.
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Your assuming they are using a direct port. I'd wager $500 they recompiled the game. One thing they probably took into account was how the game responded from inputs it would never normally receive. I bet they set it to ignore the diagonals, otherwise Ms. Pacman would be impossible. When she hits a diagonal she quits moving until the stick is centered.
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Namco Classics = emulated, not ported. I don't know of any classic game compilation disc for a console that is ported rather than emulated. And Ms. Pac-Man is no where near "impossible" with an 8-way input. I have no problems with it in MAME with an 8-way gamepad. I can't get it to do anything unusual, stopping or otherwise, by intentionally hitting the diagnols either.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: leapinlew on April 20, 2007, 01:03:06 pm ---Your assuming they are using a direct port. I'd wager $500 they recompiled the game. One thing they probably took into account was how the game responded from inputs it would never normally receive. I bet they set it to ignore the diagonals, otherwise Ms. Pacman would be impossible. When she hits a diagonal she quits moving until the stick is centered.
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It acts the exact same on just about every console. When you go diagonal, Pac goes wonky. Some console versions are better than others about it but I've played them all and found none that really do it the way we'd want. I remember the Genesis version of Ms Pac Man being pretty bad about it, and if you play it on a Genesis 3 (the Gen 3 has bugs in the firmware translating controller actions) Ms Pac Man is just about unplayable.
Kaytrim:
IMHO the best solution is to use one of the electronic multi directional joysticks. the ultrastick 360 or a 49-way joystick with the GPWiz49. These will give you all the flexibility for 8-way, 4-way, 2-way and types of joystick input. This can be done automatically via software so there is no need for the user to know if they are playing a 4-way or 8-way game. I have the 49-way sticks and I have no problem switching from 8-way to 4-way and back. There will be a new 49-way joystick coming from GGG in the near future that will be even more flexible.
TTFN :cheers:
kaytrim
lettuce:
So there's no software prog that disable's the diagonal on 8-way stick so it acts as a 4-way for 4-way games??