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Anyone played a Simpsons arcade?
Wade:
Amra is right... BUT rotating the sticks that way on your cab will make every OTHER game play weird.
Wade
HeadRusch:
It definately wasn't the Avengers engine, that was a Data East license......(but that is an example of what I consider a really fun side-scroller beat em up).
It was the TMNT Konami engine I guess......but anyhow, getting back to controls...agreed: Never angle your player 3 and 4 sticks.
It looks cool, and IMHO plays crappy for Players 3 and 4.......plus it makes using dual joystick games like smash TV a pita if you're doing it 2 players...
StLouisRod:
Thanks everyone for answering my question!
I'm still surprise that the real Simpsons control panel had such hideous locations for the player 3 and 4 buttons!!! You'd have to stand on the side or corner, twist your left hand at an angle since the joysticks weren't rotated, then wrap your OTHER hand around to somehow press the buttons.... YUCK!!! Luckily the game doesn't require exact diagonal movements, so it didn't really matter play-wise. Now a game like Sunset Riders where you have to power slide to beat the bosses becomes quite difficult with the 45 degree rotated joysticks.
I still prefer my design over the Simpsons one. But the question is, why didn't Konami put the player 3 and 4 buttons high and right? THere's plenty of room for them there!
paigeoliver:
The original Simpsons panel looks several inches smaller than yours. If you look at the button layout carefully you see it is designed to have the people standing more at the SIDE of the panel, instead of in front of it.
I never actually played one of those things with more than 2 people, but I always remember being Lisa, and don't recall having any control problems at all.
JODY:
Don't rotate your sticks. Leave them as is so things work fine for most games. In the Simpsons, use the Tab option to go into the control settings for just that game and reprogram player 3 and 4 to work properly. Similar to the way a lot of people change an 8 way stick to only recognize diagonals for playing Q*Bert. Should work great as long as your sticks register diagonals well.
On second thought that won't work because it is an 8-way game and Mame wouldn't know that up, down, left, right are really the diagonals.