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49-ways, the new 8-ways?
paigeoliver:
I'll do some testing on speed up Pac-Man with the 49-ways to see how they do.
I will equally test standard wico 8-ways, and the reunion joysticks and post my scores with each one, that should give a good indication of their usuability for 4-way action.
NoOne=NBA=:
I don't know enough about the workings of the interface to answer this.
Does the interface interpolate 8-way from the 49-way signal when used with 8-way MAME games?
What I am wanting to know here is--does it assume that, if you are closer to straight up than up-right, you are wanting to send a straight up signal?
My fear is that it may interpolate anything that is not EXACTLY up/down/etc... as a diagonal, causing it to really want to do diagonals rather than up/down/left/right like a traditional 8-way.
My other question would be how it deals with the analog "distance" signal.
I am guessing that it will read anything in a given direction as that direction, and ignore the analog "distance" data.
That would make it have a very immediate response to stick movement, which would nullify the downside to the long throw to some degree.
Let us know what you find out once you get yours.
paigeoliver:
Well, the interface turns it into an "analog" PC joystick, with two different available settings for how it converts the 49-way signal to the analog signal.
So for Mame purposes it is an analog stick. So it all really depends on how well Mame handles digital games with analog sticks. Most analog sticks suck for Mame because they are slow, heavy, and have REALLY long throws, but this one doesn't have those issues,
dema:
If the interface uses a USB connection, couldn't I hook it to an Xbox using this type of object?
http://shop.system-mods.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=121
How would I go about doing that? Do you hook the arcade controls to the interface controls and then hook the USB dongle to this USB-to-XBox adapter? Would that give me the analog joystick capability?
paigeoliver:
--- Quote from: dema on May 01, 2004, 09:16:41 pm ---If the interface uses a USB connection, couldn't I hook it to an Xbox using this type of object?
http://shop.system-mods.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=121
How would I go about doing that? Do you hook the arcade controls to the interface controls and then hook the USB dongle to this USB-to-XBox adapter? Would that give me the analog joystick capability?
--- End quote ---
That is assuming that the X-Box works with PC joysticks using a USB adaptor like that. I don't have an X-Box, so I don't know the answer to that question.
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