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CheffoJeffo:


--- Quote from: pcolson on December 30, 2008, 02:18:49 pm ---There are way more useless "do a search" posts here than there are repeated posts about 4/8 way joysticks.

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Wanna bet ?   ;)

FWIW, I agree about setting a friendlier tone and occasionally revisiting old topics. Things do change -- witness the emergence of mapping for 49-way and analog sticks (of which, only the U360 has been mentioned so far). Since I mention them, perhaps I should provide some links to pertinent info:

How necessary is a 49 way joystick?
Midway 49 way vs. U360's vs. p360
MAME Analog Joystick Map Editor
At the same time, I believe that the more specific questions that usually result from preliminary research generate better discussion (see the threads above), mostly because folks tend to skip threads with the commonly repeating open-ended topics (the only reason I'm still posting in it is because I am in work-avoidance mode).

As far as the old timers not thinking about things like this in a while, lots of them have projects on the go all the time and have more experience with various pieces of equipment. Unfortunately, many will skip threads like this, which is too bad because they often think of things that the newer folks might not, like "Is the multi arcade going to be PC-based ?" or "What kind of games do you want to play ?".

IMPO, the most important thing about deciding what kinds of controls you want is to determine what range of games you want to support and what games are most important to you. If the stick you choose doesn't perform well with your favourite game, then that will suck far more than being told to do a search by some random arcade freak on the innertubes.

And, as always, if you find outdated information in the wiki, please update it. If you don't want to do the updating, then head over to the Wiki Discussion board and point it out so that somebody else can take care of it.

 :cheers:

Ginsu Victim:


--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on December 30, 2008, 03:23:58 pm ---FWIW, I agree about setting a friendlier tone

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Guess I should've put a little ;) next to the Search image, since I wasn't trying to be a dick until I got treated like one.

CheffoJeffo:


--- Quote from: Ginsu Victim on December 30, 2008, 03:27:07 pm ---
--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on December 30, 2008, 03:23:58 pm ---FWIW, I agree about setting a friendlier tone

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Guess I should've put a little ;) next to the Search image, since I wasn't trying to be a dick until I got treated like one.

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It's something that we all end up being guilty of now and again ... some of us more than others, although I haven't dropped a nasty wikibomb(tm) in a while.  ;)

_JMFR:

wow...this thread took a turn for the worse! haha

but thanks everyone for the advice.

as for my opinion on the heat. As a noob to the arcade world, i gotta say that a few recommendations are better for me. you can take what others suggest and base your search on that. its nice to know what the users like, and what they dont

CheffoJeffo:

All that and you didn't answer my questions ?  ;)

I will presume this is a MAME-based project, in which case the links I listed may be useful as they all deal with some form of digital restriction or mapping. If you are going to go with some other flavour of multi-game, then you would likely want to ignore those options.

But, really, I was absolutely serious about what games you want to play.

Fighter players can be rather particular, for example, about hitting combinations.

Do you really need the physical restriction ? Are you a Pac-hound ? Big Q-Bert fan ? Robotron maniac ? Gotta have your Sinistar fix ?



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