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ABACABB:

--- Quote ---Okay, you guys realize there is NO wind, green, or other such stuff inside a Golden Tee machine, right?
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There is no wind in there holding the trackball back??!! OMG that's why I have been rolling the trackball so hard all this time!! I thought the wind was actually in the cabinet blowing around and I had to compensate by rolling the trackball harder.  Oh thank you so much Max for clearing this up.  Now I can try to play the game the "correct way" since I don't have to compensate for all of that wind blowing around inside the cabinet!!  WHEW!!


--- Quote ---I still maintain that if I were to use this pathetically inadequate method in a bar or arcade, I would immediately be accused of "cheating", and you yourself have pretty much confirmed that.
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Once again Max, you are a complete ding-ding.  I never once said this is cheating.  I said it is an advantage to utilize the backspin vs. not using it....  But it is the player's choice as to how they want to play.

I will not respond to this thread again.  You are too ignorant to even understand what I'm saying and it is pointless to try to teach you.   :banghead:

Typefighter01:
@MaxVolume-I think I made a boo-boo. I tried your paper ball experiment, but instead of paper, I removed the balls from both my x-arcade trackball housing and an old Happ one I had sitting around (I thought using the balls themselves would be more representative of the actual game). I was surprised, but my results were different. The one I threw went from my living room went all the way past my kitchen and out a bathroom window (it was closed of course :dunno, wife is gonna kill me). Worse still, the one I flicked with my finger, only move a couple of inches and I am sure I did some damage to one of the joints as I can not make a fist anymore. Sorry to thread hijack, but does anyone know where to get replacement trackballs :cry:

CheffoJeffo:
Wow ... and I thought that the old timers who insist on proper, dedicated controls are freaks (wait ... wat?), but Max is over-the-top and off-the-charts insane with his need to prove the virility of his thumbs.

It's a freaking video game -- play how you want, as long as you have fun (and, yeah, I like the "moron" way simply because it is fun).

 :afro:

MaxVolume:

--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on November 28, 2012, 06:48:59 am ---Wow ... and I thought that the old timers who insist on proper, dedicated controls are freaks (wait ... wat?), but Max is over-the-top and off-the-charts insane with his need to prove the virility of his thumbs.

It's a freaking video game -- play how you want, as long as you have fun (and, yeah, I like the "moron" way simply because it is fun).

 :afro:

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I get that I'm probably beating a dead horse here, but my whole point has been why spend all this time worrying about how far your trackball is from your monitor, when there's no real need to do the "Superman" move in the first place?  To me it's like saying "how can I mount my joystick into the side of the cabinet sticking straight out, so I can lean to the right at a 90-degree angle when I play because I don't know any better."

'Scuse the ---fudgesicle--- outta me for trying to impart some knowledge... sheesh!

CheffoJeffo:
No, I don't think I will ... excuse you.

First, you seem to think that you are the first person to point this out and that makes you so smart and convinces you that you need to beat the horse until it is thoroughly and completely dead.

That leads to the second point -- you obnoxiously (!) dismiss or belittle anybody who disagrees with you.

And, finally, you completely miss the only point that matters -- some people like the Superman move and, while I can see why you may be stuck playing your cab all by your lonesome, cabs should be designed so that a variety of people (on earth we call these "friends and family") can use it and don't injure themselves.

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