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Title: Tetris: 4-way or 8?
Post by: RayB on July 05, 2005, 09:37:10 pm
Looking over KLOV they keep listing Tetris as using a 3-way (which would be a 4-way that you just never push up) and I was wondering if this is correct. Would you not want to move a piece down diagonally?

Title: Re: Tetris: 4-way or 8?
Post by: mccoy178 on July 05, 2005, 09:56:44 pm
It is definitely a four way.  By the way, Tetris Grand Master is the best ever!
Title: Re: Tetris: 4-way or 8?
Post by: Q*Bert_OP on July 06, 2005, 01:53:47 am
BTW, moon shuttle is a wierd 5-way.
Title: Re: Tetris: 4-way or 8?
Post by: jcroach on July 06, 2005, 09:39:35 am
BTW, moon shuttle is a wierd 5-way.

Not to hi-jack the thread, but can you describe this a little further?
Title: Re: Tetris: 4-way or 8?
Post by: walls83 on July 06, 2005, 12:23:12 pm
It is definitely a four way.
Title: Re: Tetris: 4-way or 8?
Post by: JoyMonkey on July 06, 2005, 01:43:57 pm
BTW, moon shuttle is a wierd 5-way.

Not to hi-jack the thread, but can you describe this a little further?

I'm curious about this too. The manual mentions a 5-way joystick, but the joystick assembly looks like an 8 way.
http://www.arcadedocs.com/vidmanuals/M/MoonShuttle.pdf
Title: Re: Tetris: 4-way or 8?
Post by: 2600 on July 06, 2005, 01:54:25 pm
BTW, moon shuttle is a wierd 5-way.

Not to hi-jack the thread, but can you describe this a little further?

I'm curious about this too. The manual mentions a 5-way joystick, but the joystick assembly looks like an 8 way.
http://www.arcadedocs.com/vidmanuals/M/MoonShuttle.pdf

Looks like, you were on the right track JoyMonkey.  Look at the schematic, it only connects up,down, and right.  Therefore it only can see 5 directions.  The joystick itself seems to be a normal 8-way.  I don't know if they actually connected the 4th microswitch or not and there doesn't appear to be any kind of restrictor.


Edit: Something possibly to make note of in Controls.Dat
Title: Re: Tetris: 4-way or 8?
Post by: JoyMonkey on July 06, 2005, 02:04:03 pm
Back to the topic; the Tetris manual says that the conversion kit comes with two 4-way sticks, but the Jamma table says that up is not connected (so it's a 3-way):
http://www.arcadedocs.com/vidmanuals/T/tetris-kit-manual.pdf
Title: Re: Tetris: 4-way or 8?
Post by: Q*Bert_OP on July 06, 2005, 03:01:52 pm
BTW, moon shuttle is a wierd 5-way.

Not to hi-jack the thread, but can you describe this a little further?

up, down, forward(right), up/right, down/right

and it does look just like an 8-way stick, except it has a restrictor plate only allowing movement in 5 directions, and only 3 microswitches