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| rampy:
seems reasonably, all and all... looks pretty clean and spread out. Do you really need that switch for "The circle on the right next to the top-fire joystick is a rotary switch to change the top-fire between player 1 and player 2 " ??? *shrug* just wondering. Rampy |
| AlanS17:
There will be enough clearance for the joystick on the left side divider. I can always move it in, though. I think I will move the buttons above the trackball. Plan on using it for things other than MAME. Well I was gonna put the rotary switch there because I figured some games would use a player one top-fire but some others would use it as a second joystick for dual-joystick games. Is that reasonable? I may be way off. Oerhaps I havent' done my homework. |
| Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: AlanS17 on June 24, 2003, 03:02:03 pm ---There will be enough clearance for the joystick on the left side divider. I can always move it in, though. I think I will move the buttons above the trackball. Plan on using it for things other than MAME. Well I was gonna put the rotary switch there because I figured some games would use a player one top-fire but some others would use it as a second joystick for dual-joystick games. Is that reasonable? I may be way off. Oerhaps I havent' done my homework. --- End quote --- Rampy's right - just do it with software, you'll need to anyway. For example, assume that your top fire is mapped to R,F,D,G, (MAME defaults for Joystick2). But BattleZone uses I and K for right stick up and down, so you either need to redefine it in MAME or load a different config file to your encoder to make it work. Likewise Tron uses a Player 1 Trigger stick, but you can map Tron to UP - Up Arrow or R, etc. to make your stick work. Reminds me also - didn't you have a thread about using a ball-top or a standard trigger stick. I would get the standard because Discs of Tron and some other games needed a thumb button on the trigger stick and you could add one to these instead of a ball top. Sorry for crossing threads on you. |
| AlanS17:
We're about to get off topic so we'll end it here, but the question was whether to get a top-fire with a ball top or with a standard top-fire... They were both top-fires. |
| MinerAl:
Looks awesome Alan. The rotary switch thing would be cool. Do it anyway, even if you have to use software to actually make the stick functional, just to have a rotary switch on your CP. The only thing: is the P2 stick too close to the track ball? Would you whack it if you went for an incoming missle on the right side of the screen too quickly? I'd like to have a good entire hand-span next to the trackball for enthusiastic maneuvering. Good luck! |
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