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Author Topic: MAME Games That Only Use Left/Right and a Fire Button?  (Read 2774 times)

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MAME Games That Only Use Left/Right and a Fire Button?
« on: January 05, 2009, 03:15:22 pm »
Hi all. I am building a MAME cabinet out of a gutted Space Invaders (don't worry.. I am not mofidying anything at all..  cabinet will remain all original inside and out. Just putting a PC monitor where the original monitor should have been, and then using an iPac to connect the original control panel.  Even keeping the original mirror in place and having the monitor flip the image.  The cabinet will have no external modifications at all, and can be converted back to original in no time at all someday).

Anyway, since I am using the original control panel, which just has Left, Right, and Fire buttons, I would like to include as many vertical games as possible that can use this setup.  Games off the top of my head are:

Space Invaders (and all variants/clones)
Galaga
Galaxian
Penguin Koon Wars
Carnival
Phoenix (however this game will need a second button for shield.. may configure Player 2 start button)
Satans Hollow (same as Phoenix.. need to configure second button)

Can anyone think of any others good ones?

Thanks!
Games in my collection: Pole Position II (it actually works! Well... most of the time), Space Invaders, Donkey Kong, 280 Zzzap, Pacman, custom 3/4 size Ms. Pacman, Yankee Shuffle Alley (1954), Blue Ribbon pinball.

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Re: MAME Games That Only Use Left/Right and a Fire Button?
« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2009, 03:18:57 pm »
I've always had a soft spot for Lunar Rescue, and I believe it was based on the same hardware as Space Invaders.
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Re: MAME Games That Only Use Left/Right and a Fire Button?
« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2009, 03:30:05 pm »
you can do a deluxe search on MAWS,

http://www.mameworld.net/maws/

select:
Control: joy2way
buttons: 1

that should get you a pretty good list
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Re: MAME Games That Only Use Left/Right and a Fire Button?
« Reply #3 on: January 05, 2009, 04:28:24 pm »
Thanks for the tips.  I will do that search when I get home tonight  (Mameworld.net is blocked at my company for some reason...)

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Re: MAME Games That Only Use Left/Right and a Fire Button?
« Reply #4 on: January 05, 2009, 06:18:52 pm »
Anybody knows if a Mag Stcik plus in 4 way mode do the trick or do I have buy a 2 way joystick..I gonna try Galaxian soon just to see how it works

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Re: MAME Games That Only Use Left/Right and a Fire Button?
« Reply #5 on: January 05, 2009, 09:52:02 pm »
Pleiads... Great game, a bit like Phoenix but different.

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Re: MAME Games That Only Use Left/Right and a Fire Button?
« Reply #6 on: January 05, 2009, 10:04:19 pm »
Anybody knows if a Mag Stcik plus in 4 way mode do the trick or do I have buy a 2 way joystick..I gonna try Galaxian soon just to see how it works
I have no problems with a 4 way stick on 2 way games.
Galaga is my #1  game.

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Re: MAME Games That Only Use Left/Right and a Fire Button?
« Reply #7 on: January 05, 2009, 10:23:04 pm »
joust...!

(edit)
oh...just saw that you need vertical suggestions...whoops...
« Last Edit: January 05, 2009, 10:34:29 pm by fixedpigs »

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Re: MAME Games That Only Use Left/Right and a Fire Button?
« Reply #8 on: January 05, 2009, 10:32:22 pm »
Use romlister made by NOP. Look in the software forum page 3

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Re: MAME Games That Only Use Left/Right and a Fire Button?
« Reply #9 on: January 05, 2009, 11:52:55 pm »
Astro Blaster and Joust 2, if you add the previously mentioned second button.
Also Space Invaders '95 and Cosmo Gang.

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Re: MAME Games That Only Use Left/Right and a Fire Button?
« Reply #10 on: January 06, 2009, 08:22:46 am »
Anybody knows if a Mag Stcik plus in 4 way mode do the trick or do I have buy a 2 way joystick..I gonna try Galaxian soon just to see how it works
I have no problems with a 4 way stick on 2 way games.
Galaga is my #1  game.

It worked fine here too

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Re: MAME Games That Only Use Left/Right and a Fire Button?
« Reply #11 on: January 06, 2009, 08:27:01 am »
Moon Cresta
Astro Invader
Thenasty's Arcademania Horizontal/Vertical setup.
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=26696.0

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