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Aceisback:
Has anyone made or modified a spinner so that it can be programmed to work with a variety of different games and emulators (eg. Arkanoid, Kaboom on Atari 2600, etc.)?

Louis Tully:
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thatpurplestuff:
I'm pretty ignorant on this subject, but what is the dealbreaker on using a standard spinner like the Turbotwist or SpinTrak with an emulator like Stella?  Is it just as issue of not emulating the spinner control accurately?  Could sensitivity settings be tweaked to help this or is it a lost cause without a potentiometer?

Aceisback:
Some games just cannot be played with certain spinners. I have a Slik Stik Tornado, and Arknoid and Kaboom were impossible to play, yet Tempest plays just fine. The TurboTwist 2 works for Arknoid by what I have read. It appears hard to find a spinner that works properly for every games.

PL1:
It's easy to scale down spinner resolution so start with a high-res spinner or you'll never play the high-res games smoothly.

In MAME, you'll need to use the Spinner Turn Count to change the analog sensitivity for each game.

Other emulators may allow similar adjustments.


Scott

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