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Spinner right-handed or left?
Steve248:
--- Quote from: RandyT on January 31, 2013, 01:35:35 am ---
I'd say put it on the side you favor for writing, etc. Unlike joysticks, spinners require digital dexterity (i.e. the fine motor control of fingers). If right-handed, this is usually better on that hand.
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I have thought about this many times and could never understand it. I am left handed and have always found it bizarre and really annoying when I have been unable to play certain games in arcades with trackballs or spinners.
You say that "Unlike joysticks, spinners require digital dexterity (i.e. the fine motor control of fingers)." I do not understand this, surely controlling the player with whatever controller requires digital dexterity?
Ok, I understand that this has happened because it works for people so the main question is how did the Joystick end up on the left? Good news for me, if it was on the right I would never have been able to play.
Le Chuck:
I stick with a TRON style setup, spinner on left joystick on right. Games that don't use a joystick with the spinner just get played with the left like it's a joystick. Works for me. I'm a righty.
Gray_Area:
--- Quote from: Steve248 on February 02, 2013, 04:30:20 am ---Ok, I understand that this has happened because it works for people so the main question is how did the Joystick end up on the left? Good news for me, if it was on the right I would never have been able to play.
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Games through about '79 weren't very fast, and didn't fire repetitively. But, like leading with your left foot when you kick righty, people have tended to do better overall controlling with left and shooting with right. Also, some games move left to right (at least for a board, like DK/girders), particulary side scrollers, and it's just abso weird moving 'against your shoulder'. Unless you're left-handed, in which case you'd be leading with your right.
Sidearms Hyperdyne was an odd duck in having one of the control sets being reversed, I think P2, forcing them to play righty.
DeLuSioNal29:
Mine is set up to be used by my right hand (I'm a righty) and the buttons to the left. However, I also have a Tron joystick to the right of the spinner so that when I play tron, I use the spinner with my left hand. But that's an exception to the rule. Again, I prefer my spinner on the right.
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paigeoliver:
You will want your spinner right or center unless you are a lefty who also mouses left handed as well AND don't care if the other 85 percent of the population won't be able to control your game.
Right handed people usually have extremely poor fine control in their off hand and will find left handed spinners hard to control. Left handed people live in a right handed world and thus usually do quite a bit better with their off hand. They have been playing on controls designed for righties since they picked up their first gamepad.
Tron had it wrong, the controls should have been the other way around. I have a Cabal with lefty trackballs and right handed people find it extremely difficult to play.
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