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720 Real/Joystick/Spinner Test
Derrick Renaud:
--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on January 25, 2011, 12:24:21 am ---
--- Quote ---For my next trick:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=108813.0
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Blasphemous. :P
(the added number of controls add difficulty, which adds to the experience and feeling of accomplishment when you do well)
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Playing with a gamepad can be quite hard with the real controls. This helps out.
--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on January 25, 2011, 12:24:21 am --- How about simulating / emulating the Track n Field version that used a Trackball?
That looked like it could be an interesting way to control the game. :) Not sure if anyone has gotten hold of the converter or not... and or if its needed.
From what it looked like, there was some sort of small pcb that changed the values to digital pulses.
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You requesting non real controls? Blasphemous. ;)
The only way I can see that working is the harder you spin, the faster the buttons are pressed. That would be kind of pointless because you would always get a good score.
Ikari style games using Robotron controls would be a better candidates. I would need to know the memory locations that control rotation but I am too lazy/no interest to find them myself.
Xiaou2:
--- Quote ---you requesting non real controls? Blasphemous.
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heh. No, actually. There was a real Arcade version that used a trackball that was used
on-location.
Spinning the trackball fast requires a lot of effort, so is very similar to the button mashing.
Im guessing however, that the Mfg. had too many complaints of people smashing their hands into the cabinet side or something like that.
--- Quote ---Ikari style games using Robotron controls would be a better candidates.
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I dont know how you think you are going to move one way, face another, and then press any buttons rapidly in the process. (unless you have 3 hands)
Sure, you could lock down the facing so that its always firing which way they face... but it would destroy the gameplay, the same way it never works well to play robotron with one stick.
Which is why the Rotary sticks were created in the first place, and are the best choice for playing the game.
Derrick Renaud:
--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on January 25, 2011, 08:34:07 am ---
--- Quote ---Ikari style games using Robotron controls would be a better candidates.
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I dont know how you think you are going to move one way, face another, and then press any buttons rapidly in the process. (unless you have 3 hands)
Sure, you could lock down the facing so that its always firing which way they face... but it would destroy the gameplay, the same way it never works well to play robotron with one stick.
Which is why the Rotary sticks were created in the first place, and are the best choice for playing the game.
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I guess I was thinking that the right joystick would autofire in the direction of the right joystick so you could hold it down. Forgot about the second button. Maybe add a fire/grenade toggle. Press it and you then lob a grenade (no autofire) with each right press. Maybe even add a lob a grenade in the player direction button. Starts to get complicated though.
It was just something I get lots of requests for.
How about:
Joust with Kinect control of arm flapping. ;D
spoot:
--- Quote from: Derrick Renaud on January 25, 2011, 08:44:08 am --- How about:
Joust with Kinect control of arm flapping. ;D
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Damn it! Milk meet monitor........monitor meet milk. :lol
Bootay:
--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on January 25, 2011, 08:34:07 am ---
--- Quote ---you requesting non real controls? Blasphemous.
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heh. No, actually. There was a real Arcade version that used a trackball that was used
on-location.
Spinning the trackball fast requires a lot of effort, so is very similar to the button mashing.
Im guessing however, that the Mfg. had too many complaints of people smashing their hands into the cabinet side or something like that.
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He's right about that. They had a Track & Field with trackball at the mall by my house for a long time when I was a teen. And yes, it was easy to slam your hand into the cabinet sides if you got into it too much. heh
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