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Crystal Castles trackball
telengard:
I'm starting a new thread hoping that someone who owns or plays this game a lot might have some suggestions. I played it a lot on Sunday and there is no analog setting I can get w/ MAME that is close to the original. I'm not sure the best way to describe it but when I come to an intersection in mame it tends to go in the direction I'm *not* pushing the trackball. This doesn't happen in the real thing. I have a Happs 3" ball and have lubed it up to be sure it's functioning correctly. Windows acceleration is off. This post from a while ago on usenet mentions something similar:
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I have a 2nd happs 3" and I'm going to hook that up tomorrow to see if it behaves the same. I would bet that it will.
Any ideas?
etumor:
Sadly, I can only report that I've seen the same behavior.
-Jeff "etumor"
Jakobud:
On a related note, was the CC trackball mounted at an angle?
etumor:
I was wondering about this myself. Earlier this year I was at a party where I met a guy who owned an original Crystal Castles. I asked him about whether or not the trackball was mounted at an angle. He said he didn't really know, but he said he'd check for me.
A week later, I received the following email from him:
"Hey there! I just took a look in my Crystal Castles, and actually ...the trackball is mounted in straight, just like on Centipede...how about that!"
So there you go!
-Jeff "etumor"
telengard:
--- Quote from: etumor on September 14, 2004, 02:15:56 pm ---I was wondering about this myself. Earlier this year I was at a party where I met a guy who owned an original Crystal Castles. I asked him about whether or not the trackball was mounted at an angle. He said he didn't really know, but he said he'd check for me.
A week later, I received the following email from him:
"Hey there! I just took a look in my Crystal Castles, and actually ...the trackball is mounted in straight, just like on Centipede...how about that!"
So there you go!
-Jeff "etumor"
--- End quote ---
So that rules that out. Last night I looked at the Mame source and the schematics for CC. Hopefully something will stand out. I was sorta hoping the trackball was oriented differently since this might be easier to implement if necessary.
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