digital and optical rotary joystick

[slai50]

hi all-

can the happs optical rotary play BOTH ikari warriors and caliber 50? I know that the digital rotary joystick will only play ikari warriors not caliber 50. the optical rotary will play caliber 50 for sure but will it play ikari warriors?

[bkenobi]

In MAME, you can make either work.  However, they won't control like the original.  I use MAME Analog+ for all my rotary games since it has MC Escher's hack.  This makes one rotary click = one turn of the character in MAME.  If you use the vanilla build of MAME, I'm not sure if you will get the same response.  There were changes to the code recently that were supposed to fix things so they would work like this, but I haven't tried it yet.

As for optical rotary sticks, these work basically like a spinner more or less.  You can use the analog settings to make it work, but again it will not feel authentic.  If all you care about is making it work, you will probably have better luck with the optical stick IMO.

u_rebelscum is probably the best person to give advice on this, so hopefully he will pop in with some words of wisdom.

[isucamper]

Yes you can.  Not perfectly authentic for Ikari, but MAME has support for optical spinners in mechanical games (in fact, it's seems to prefer opticals, as it's challenging to get it configured to work with mechanicals). 

[brandon]

In MAME, you can make either work.  However, they won't control like the original.  I use MAME Analog+ for all my rotary games since it has MC Escher's hack.  This makes one rotary click = one turn of the character in MAME.  If you use the vanilla build of MAME, I'm not sure if you will get the same response.  There were changes to the code recently that were supposed to fix things so they would work like this, but I haven't tried it yet.

As for optical rotary sticks, these work basically like a spinner more or less.  You can use the analog settings to make it work, but again it will not feel authentic.  If all you care about is making it work, you will probably have better luck with the optical stick IMO.

u_rebelscum is probably the best person to give advice on this, so hopefully he will pop in with some words of wisdom.

MAME should have this "hack" my default IMO.  Not sure why one button press wasn't one "click" in the game.. 

[isucamper]

Newer versions of MAME have full support for 1-click / 1-turn in all mechanical rotary games.

see this thread

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=76828.0