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Sarge Joystick Mapping ideas?
caver01:
Awesome! Thanks for taking the time. Tired it. Worked great! I really am surprised that I will be able to play this game so easily. Tank sticks are cool, but with this level of control, it's hardly worth the investment. My friends will be pretty excited about this.
I will have to give Vidicators a look.
u_rebelscum:
--- Quote from: caver01 on February 12, 2009, 08:55:58 am ---...My mapping matches your note...
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D'oh, so the '+'s you used are ors. I thought they were ands (and couldn't figure it out). :-[
--- Quote from: caver01 on February 12, 2009, 08:55:58 am ---...Are there other games that work better with unique mapping (or negated input) like this?
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Not many OTTOMH. Qbert (and other diagonal 4-ways) on an normal 8-way can use ands. I've tried partial rotated also, for both diagonal and normal 4-ways games & 8-way sticks, but it doesn't feel "right"; not bad but not perfect.
qbert:
game your joystick
up up & right
right right & down
down down & left
left left & up
partial rotated (left):
up up ! left
right right ! up
down down ! right
left left ! down
I've tried using nots on hacks on mame, but not to good success. Examples include:
- "fixing" wow's (Wizard of Wor) look vs move hack, but the player would take a single pixal step when using nots instead of the current hack.
- true raw 49-way joystick devices (each axis as 4 digital switches) in 8-way & 4-way games. (With the 49-way to analog encoders out there now, hack not needed anymore, anyway.)
caver01:
Opps on the notation of my mapping. I used + before really even knowing about the boolean combinations you can make. At this point, I don't know if mine were ORs or ANDs. I am guessing they were ORs.
NoOne=NBA=:
--- Quote from: caver01 on February 12, 2009, 02:31:35 pm ---Opps on the notation of my mapping. I used + before really even knowing about the boolean combinations you can make. At this point, I don't know if mine were ORs or ANDs. I am guessing they were ORs.
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They have to be "OR".
If they were "AND" then pushing straight UP would have no effect.
jasonbar:
--- Quote from: u_rebelscum on February 12, 2009, 12:37:00 pm ---R/U U ! R or L ! D
R/D D ! R or R ! U ! D
L/U U ! L or R ! D
L/D D ! L or L ! U ! D
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+1 hooray for U Rebel Scum! Unless anybody has a panel with 16 top-fire sticks lying around, Tank 8 is impossible to play with genuine controls.
With my 4-player frankenpanel, at least I can get 4 players shooting the bejeepers out of each other, using this handy control programming.
Thanks! :cheers:
-Jason