Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: ironnmann on July 20, 2005, 11:11:39 am
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I am new to the Mame world - anyway if I install a trackball on my cabinet can I play the games listed as a Paddle control also -
What about driving games?
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Short answer = yes.
Long answer: A paddle is effectively a 1 axis analog joystick, so *ideally* you should use a pot-based device for this. Many people use mouse devices (eg trackball/spinner) as opposed to analog sticks or paddles however. I would say that on average it works 'pretty well' - sometimes it works better than expected and other times not too good.
As for driving games, again yes it will work...perfectly (well, aside from not being a real wheel) for 360 deg wheel games like Super Sprint. For 270deg (pot-based) wheel games it will not work so well, but it will still work - generally MUCH better than using say a digital joystick anyway. A spinner would be preferred over a trackball for drivers mind you ;)
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Ay minwah - I have Road Wars 4wd (i think that's it) the game where you race in a big offroad 4wd truck and can shoot your opponents... does that work in the current version of mame? It's a wheel/spinner game but i can't control it with the joystick or even a trackball...
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Ay minwah - I have Road Wars 4wd (i think that's it) the game where you race in a big offroad 4wd truck and can shoot your opponents... does that work in the current version of mame? It's a wheel/spinner game but i can't control it with the joystick or even a trackball...
Atari's Roat Riot 4WD? The wheel is actually pot-based (not spinner), but I think the game is not fully emulated which probably explains why it doesn't work...but then again I'm using MAME 0.92 so I'm not sure about the latest version...actually, yes I am (from MAWS):
'0.77: Aaron Giles improved logic for Road Riot 4WD - almost playable.'
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ah yes! i didn't have it front of me so couldn't recall the title properly! Thanks minwah. It looked like a cool game, too bad it doesn't work! :(
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(Keep in mind some people think a paddle and a spinner are the same thing.)
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Thank you for your response - that is what I wanted to hear