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Title: Spinner or trackball
Post by: legin on September 20, 2007, 11:06:10 am

Hello all

I want to add a spinner or a trackball to my control panel.  I dont have enough room to have both.

I already have rotary joysticks.

I was wondering what you lot think would be the best choice.

I was hoping the spinner could be used in Arkanoid for a start.  Can it also be used as a makeshift steering wheel for games like pole position and Championship Sprint.  Would I have to change the sensitivity etc for this to happen.

I dont really know much about trackballs and which games use them. Is the trackball capable of being used like a spinner?

Legin

Title: Re: Spinner or trackball
Post by: shardian on September 20, 2007, 11:07:28 am

Quote from: legin on September 20, 2007, 11:06:10 am

Is the trackball capable of being used like a spinner?

Yes. Unless original feel in spinner games is very important to you, go with a trackball.

Title: Re: Spinner or trackball
Post by: bluevolume on September 20, 2007, 11:57:33 am

Second vote for trackball.  Golf and bowling games are lots of fun on a MAME cab.

Title: Re: Spinner or trackball
Post by: Havok on September 20, 2007, 12:05:59 pm

Check out Maws and do a query for each controller, look at the games and decide which one you want more...

http://www.mameworld.net/maws/ (http://www.mameworld.net/maws/)

Title: Re: Spinner or trackball
Post by: Encryptor on September 20, 2007, 09:00:26 pm

If you have room for 1 more button than you have room for a spinner! That's all the room the TT2 takes up. Just my 2 cents.

Encryptor

Title: Re: Spinner or trackball
Post by: ARTIFACT on September 20, 2007, 09:36:49 pm

get both

turbo twist 2 spinner is only 1 button space...

i would have said spinner if you had to choose 1

Title: Re: Spinner or trackball
Post by: TOK on September 20, 2007, 09:49:58 pm

If its one of the other, go with the trackball. There are more trackball games, plus the trackball is acceptable as a spinner, but not the other way around. Cameltry, Major Havok, Arkanoid, Tempest and Star Trek were really the only standout spinner titles for me.

Title: Re: Spinner or trackball
Post by: Zeppo on September 21, 2007, 12:15:15 pm

So, would it be possible to use a trackball in Discs of Tron?
Like side to side for a spinner, and up and down for the push/pull?