Main > Main Forum

Best Trackball and Spinner games?

<< < (3/4) > >>

whammoed:
From what I remember that's the way marble madness is...you really have to spin and spin and spin to get that little sucker going.

Chris:

--- Quote from: sofakng on May 29, 2004, 11:02:40 am ---Thanks for all the great suggestions!  Keep them coming!

So far I've only really played Missile Command, Golden Tee Golf II, and Centipede.  They all work great with MAME32 and my Golden Tee trackball (Happs 3") and my Opti-PAC.

However Marble Madness does not respond well *at all* to the trackball.  I have to swing the trackball a TON and the marble barely even moves.  I've tried tweaking my settings from instead the game (Analog Controls menu) but it doesn't seem to help very much.  

--- End quote ---
You can't fling the ball around in Marble Madness.  However, you should be able to just get the marble moving fast enough to jump from the track on the starting race to one of the side platforms (although it's hard).  If you have it over-sensitrive, you'll get backspin.

Don't forget that your Windows mouse settings and driver have an impact here as well.

--Chris

Chris:

--- Quote from: Chris on May 29, 2004, 11:49:31 am ---
--- Quote from: sofakng on May 29, 2004, 11:02:40 am ---Thanks for all the great suggestions!  Keep them coming!

So far I've only really played Missile Command, Golden Tee Golf II, and Centipede.  They all work great with MAME32 and my Golden Tee trackball (Happs 3") and my Opti-PAC.

However Marble Madness does not respond well *at all* to the trackball.  I have to swing the trackball a TON and the marble barely even moves.  I've tried tweaking my settings from instead the game (Analog Controls menu) but it doesn't seem to help very much.  

--- End quote ---
You can't fling the ball around in Marble Madness.  However, you should be able to just get the marble moving fast enough to jump from the track on the starting race to one of the side platforms (although it's hard).  If you have it over-sensitrive, you'll get backspin.
--- End quote ---
I just checked mine.  For my 3" Happ trackball, I have the sensitivity at 50% and I can jump on the first level.  At 30% I can't.

--Chris

sofakng:
What are your Windows mouse settings?

I'm using an Opti-Pac with the default USB driver (in case that matters).

Chris:

--- Quote from: sofakng on May 29, 2004, 12:42:06 pm ---What are your Windows mouse settings?

I'm using an Opti-Pac with the default USB driver (in case that matters).


--- End quote ---
I'm using a mouse hack with a Microsoft IntelliMouse driver.  Remember that an arcade ball is very low-resolution as mice go, so kick the mouse speed to maximum and accelleration to none.

Here's a good test: Do you have Camel Try installed?  Put Camel Try in service mode; one of the tests will tell you how fast you're spinning the trackball.  Start spinning slowly and work your way up through spinning as fast as you can.  You should progress from "Very Slow" to "Very Fast". If you get to "Very Fast" quickly and it drops off, you're getting backspin; if it never makes it to "Very Fast" something's not sensitive enough.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page

[*] Previous page

Go to full version