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Title: 4-way games
Post by: pinballwizard79 on December 17, 2008, 11:58:14 pm

Yeah so I was thinking of building a slick & simple 1 player machine utilizing only 4-way joystick games.

Is there some magical list or search term I missed that documents the games utilizing only 4-way joys?

Hey, the plus side to answering this question....................seeing pics of something new so reply if you have insight.

Thanks!

Title: Re: 4-way games
Post by: leapinlew on December 18, 2008, 12:06:46 am

Quote from: pinballwizard79 on December 17, 2008, 11:58:14 pm

Yeah so I was thinking of building a slick & simple 1 player machine utilizing only 4-way joystick games.

Is there some magical list or search term I missed that documents the games utilizing only 4-way joys?

Hey, the plus side to answering this question....................seeing pics of something new so reply if you have insight.

Thanks!

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

Click the deluxe search option up top and select your parameters on the left. Sort through the list for games that work for you. Another thing to consider is # of buttons and screen orientation.

Title: Re: 4-way games
Post by: CrazyKongFan on December 18, 2008, 09:15:13 am

If it was me, I'd do like some of the multicades have. A stick in the middle, and 2 buttons on each side. That way, you can do games either lefty or righty. I've thought about building a 2nd MAME cab (maybe a cocktail), and make it a vertical (The one I have now is horizontal). Also have 2 joysticks, 1 4-way, for all the Pac-Man games, and an 8 way for others.

Title: Re: 4-way games
Post by: NOP on December 18, 2008, 09:53:47 am

plug plug plug...

http://www.waste.org/~winkles/ROMLister/

virtually everything that maws can do and more, and it'll spit out a listing for you in any format you want.

Title: Re: 4-way games
Post by: gatordad on December 18, 2008, 12:03:51 pm

Quote from: NOP on December 18, 2008, 09:53:47 am

plug plug plug...

http://www.waste.org/~winkles/ROMLister/

virtually everything that maws can do and more, and it'll spit out a listing for you in any format you want.

+1 for great tool
I have used it to create most if not all of my game lists

Title: Re: 4-way games
Post by: pinballwizard79 on December 18, 2008, 06:18:42 pm

Nice, thanks guys!

Title: Re: 4-way games
Post by: NoOne=NBA= on December 19, 2008, 06:50:38 pm

If you limit it to 4-way specifically you'll miss out on a lot of 2-way games that would be completely playable on the 4-way.

My favorite single joystick setup is:

OO   Joy    OO
              O

That lets you play button-only games (like Space Invaders, Asteroids, etc...) using buttons.