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Title: Curious - your control settings for Asteroids
Post by: RTSDaddy2 on January 20, 2006, 11:37:02 pm

Well, I got tired last night of trying to play Asteroids with my joystick...and after looking at the original CP, I remembered it was more button driven than stick driven.  I switched the controls in MAME so that the rotate ship controls were button driven and watched my score increase dramatically.

Curious though - how many of you also set up Asteroids to play this way?

Title: Re: Curious - your control settings for Asteroids
Post by: MikeQ on January 20, 2006, 11:43:17 pm

Mine is setup this way.  I use buttons from the player one side for rotate left/right and buttons from the player two side for thrust, fire, hyperspace.

Title: Re: Curious - your control settings for Asteroids
Post by: pmc on January 21, 2006, 08:45:19 am

I think we just did this thread a week or two ago. Most people preferred buttons if I recall. Maybe it was Space Invaders that was being discussed.

Check out AsteroidsGL (http://webpages.charter.net/astgl/astgl.htm). I like it better than MAME.

BTW, I still play with a stick because it feels comfortable and the controls default that way so I never changed it.

-pmc

Title: Re: Curious - your control settings for Asteroids
Post by: ArtMAME on January 26, 2006, 08:52:22 pm

Hey, I set up my controls for Asteroids that way.  In fact, that was one of the biggest reasons I designed my CP layout like I did.  It is basically the Asteroids buttons layout (plus an extra button a few inches above the Hyperspace) , plus a Joystick on either side for Robotron.  If you look on at my avatar, you can see a very early prototype of my layout with a baby Elmo tapping on the keyboard.  I have made a few revisions to my CP since then, but my main design still revolves greatly around the Asteroids/Robotron oriented layout. Asteroids ROCKS!!!...Rock On Dude!!! 8)

Title: Re: Curious - your control settings for Asteroids
Post by: ahofle on January 26, 2006, 09:00:16 pm

I just changed mine about 2 weeks ago to use only buttons (player 1 buttons for movement, and player 2 buttons for the rest) after reading about it here.  I love it.

Title: Re: Curious - your control settings for Asteroids
Post by: miles2912 on January 26, 2006, 09:52:54 pm

I am still in the CP planning stages.  My Yellow buttons will be my Asteroids config.  It is one of my favs and I dumped a lot of quarters in it and still am not good... -lol

Don

(http://webpages.charter.net/miles2912/Drawing4.jpg)

Title: Re: Curious - your control settings for Asteroids
Post by: thebrownshow on January 26, 2006, 10:14:28 pm

I do just about like the above post, but I've got two seven-button layouts, so I make the 2P "Neo Geo" button the Hyperspace button.

Title: Re: Curious - your control settings for Asteroids
Post by: Havok on January 27, 2006, 10:04:24 am

That's the main reason I have swappable panels - I have an exact Asteroids\Phoenix button layout.