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jasonbar:


--- Quote from: isucamper on September 26, 2009, 10:44:38 am ---that game used an optical rotary that spun freely (no clicks) so it's unlikely that the MAME team would support positional controls on it.  it does play great with a regular joystick and a turbo twist high low spinner though! 

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Thanks--attractive.  Or one could use a trigger stick & a normal spinner if you want to be able to fire & grenade simultaneously.

However, even though I've got a bajillion controls on my Frankenpanel, using rotary sticks with semi-accurate rotariness is my best option for 2-player action.

Thanks,
-Jason

bkenobi:

High-low = 2 buttons or 1 button?  I don't have (or really want) a spinner, but that's pretty cool!

isucamper:

you get one button with a push and another button with a pull

i have the machine gun firing on a push, but i didn't map the grenades to the pull.  i've got a button pretty close to the and I can hit it for grenades.  I tried it wth grenades on the pull and didn't like it much (kinda messed with my accuracy). 

ragnar:

I'm trying to think back, way back ... to the 1980s.  I played Ikari Warriors a handful of times and if I ever do a cabinet, full Ikari support is a must.

So, I have a recollection from my childhood.  Didn't Ikari click as you rotated the joystick into predetermined positions or is the clicking feature a figment of my imagination.

Do these optical and mechanical solutions support clicking into positions every 1/8 turn or whatever it was that Ikari was based upon?  That way as you are moving, you don't accidentally twist 1/8 turn at an inopportune time.

Just my thoughts on this thread that seem to have not been discussed.  Then again I am a big time newbie.  I have two co-workers that plan on doing a full blow MAME cabinet and I might be the third.  We will be working this together if we all do it so that should make for a fun thread.


jasonbar:

My mechanical rotary sticks click when I spin them.  I don't think I've ever accidentlally rotated them--the detents in the mechanism prevent accidental rotation.

-Jason

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