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1500points:
Taito Frontline
joystick and spinner

jdbailey1206:
DeLuSioNal29 posted this on an earlier thread I started.  Hope it helps.

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

Looks like you can just click the info you need and it supplies you with games.

tron84:

--- Quote from: marioxb on August 29, 2013, 09:02:00 am ---If I never played Forgotten Worlds before, would it play decent enough as it were played exactly like Ikari Warriors? Rotary instead of 1 stick and 1 spinner per player?

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Played Forgotten Worlds in the arcades in the day, all the time.  Great Game... ;D
But is a 8way joy with the hi/low spinner ONLY using the low(push).
DOT uses the hi/low spinner also. So you would need the TurboTwist from GGG to play Forgotten worlds right.

http://groovygamegear.com/webstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=86&products_id=311

PL1:

--- Quote from: marioxb on August 29, 2013, 09:02:00 am ---If I never played Forgotten Worlds before, would it play decent enough as it were played exactly like Ikari Warriors? Rotary instead of 1 stick and 1 spinner per player?

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A mechanical rotary joystick like Ikari Warriors will cause fairly slow rotation since the joystick has 12 transitions per rotation but the game has approximately 36 (?) possible firing angles per rotation -- 3 full turns of the joystick for 1 full turn of the player.

An optical rotary joysick would probably work better for this game.


Scott

tron84:
I dont see how an optical rotary joysick would benefit for this game.  The arm would just spin not shoot also, like it needs to do.
The player moved with an 8way joystick.
The the players arm rotated with the spinner & the (low)push of the hi/low spinner was the fire/shot.  That is how the arcade game was.

http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=7842

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