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Title: Defender controls
Post by: btp2k2 on March 09, 2011, 12:50:52 pm: Hey all,

I am struggling to find a good setup for Defender. My control panel has a standard "Street Fighter" style button layout (6 buttons arranged in 2 rows of three). Button 1 is on the top row closest to the joystick with button 4 under it.

Can anyone suggest a good control configuration in MAME to make Defender a little more playable?

Thanks in advance
Title: Re: Defender controls
Post by: LeedsFan on March 10, 2011, 06:34:30 pm: The only thing I can suggest is to forget about Hyperspace button for now as it's the least useful in the game. Reverse needs to be the most comfortable button to the joystick for your thumb. Then two buttons alongside each other for thrust and fire. I tend to prefer the fire button being on the left and thrust on the right (it was other way round on the arcade machine) because I personally find firing with the middle finger to be a bit painful after a while.

On the arcade machine the joystick was set quite low down. If you have a standard joystick height then you are going to be reaching out to the reverse button with your thumb making it more difficult. Whatever you do is going to be a compromise.
Title: Re: Defender controls
Post by: Gray_Area on March 12, 2011, 04:44:06 pm: My general two/three-button set-up is a triangle:

top middle = fire
bottom left = jump/bombs/thrust
bottom right = hyperspace/shield/extra

With Defender:

bottom right = smart bombs
top left (yes, right hand) = reverse

With Stargate, inviso (which I *never* use) = top right.
Title: Re: Defender controls
Post by: sharpfork on March 20, 2011, 11:07:04 am: I have a 4 button setup and I really can't find a decent config. I'd love to find a hacked rom that would allow combined reverse and thrust so I could push the direction I want to go on the joystick
Title: Re: Defender controls
Post by: taylormadelv on March 20, 2011, 02:28:28 pm: Stargate is my favorite game of all time and I suffered as you are now with how to control the game in mame. This really inspired me to eventually find and buy a real Stargate which I made into a dedicated mame until I could restore the game to original. Stargate is just one of those games where you need the real controls to play really well. My HS is 188,000, decent but not astronomical. Mame is just about perfect in terms of gameplay, dead on. I think saltbreeze on klov has a HS in the millions.
Title: Re: Defender controls
Post by: Derrick Renaud on March 23, 2011, 04:22:53 pm: Maybe you are looking for something like this?
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=108813.0 (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=108813.0)
Title: Re: Defender controls
Post by: Gray_Area on March 23, 2011, 08:46:03 pm: Quote from: Derrick Renaud on March 23, 2011, 04:22:53 pm
Maybe you are looking for something like this?
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=108813.0 (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=108813.0)

Does it 'reverse' only when the stick is pointed back in the other direction?
Title: Re: Defender controls
Post by: Derrick Renaud on March 24, 2011, 04:08:04 pm: Quote from: Gray_Area on March 23, 2011, 08:46:03 pm
Does it 'reverse' only when the stick is pointed back in the other direction?

Yes. It accesses a memory location for proper control.