Welcome aboard, Jimmybog.

From my understanding, the original “food fight” had a 49 way analogue joystick
Minor point of correction, but a
49-way (7x7 optical) joystick isn't the same as an
analog (potentiometer) joystick.
Pgs. 25 and 27 of the manual
here show that the Food Fight stick has potentiometers.
However, when I play the game in MAME, using the left analogue controller for movement, I can only move up, down, left, right and diagonally Up/left, up/right, down/left, down/right
In the "Input (this Game)" menu, have you set the following to "none"? (press Enter then Esc)
- "AD Stick X Analog Inc"
- "AD Stick X Analog Dec"
- "AD Stick Y Analog Inc"
- "AD Stick Y Analog Dec"
Scott