Terminator 2

[Marky_1979]

Im playing Terminator 2 with a joystick iv done all the calibrating as instructed on byoac info and the controls are very slow takes and age to get from one side of screen to other.

This is not very helpul when you have a screen of terminators and need to move quickly is there a way off speeding up the movement so its more playable and actually gives me a chance.

[Goz]

How fast of a system is it running on?

-Goz

[Minwah]

I don't know (I've never tried it) but if your using a digital joystick this is probably normal.  You could go into the Analog Controls menu in MAME and adjust the Key/Speed option (something like that).

Most people use a trackball, it must be horrible using a joystick!

[Marky_1979]

AMD 64 3500+ 939
128mb 9600 radeon graphics (thinK)
512mb Ram
 

[Marky_1979]

Must abmit never thought about using a trackball how does it play with that? strange and very tricky i would imagine?

[Goz]

It plays ok with a trackball and you should give it a shot. At least that could tell you if its a key rate issue, etc..

-Goz

[AceTKK]

it plays fine with a trackball.  All you're really doing is moving a cursor around the screen so it makes sense that the t-ball is a good solution. 

-Ace-

[Howard_Casto]

it plays fine with a trackball.

[Minwah]

The t2 guns had pretty accurte aim and more importantly were designed in such a way that you could move from one extreme to the other in an instant and still aim well.  You simply can't do that with a trackball unless to adjust the sensitivity so much that you can no longer aim at things in the background accurately.  If you don't have the guns, the next best thing, believe it or not, is a flight stick with "twist" function.  Heck get yourself a toy squirt gun mount the flight stick  to a control panel and you can make a t2 gun with such a stick..... They operate virtually the same way.

I don't agree entirely...I do agree that is most like the original gun, and with a gun mounted on a joystick like that would be great, if you could get the calibration right.  I just think playing using the Y axis and twist (Z?) axis of a normal analog stick would be pretty tricky to get used to.

I think trackball works pretty well, you can just spin it faster to move around more quickly  

OT I never really saw the attraction of this game, other than the fact that the film is great.  Operation Wolf is much better imo

[Silver]

If you don't mind upping the brightness on your CRT a bit, in theory a guncon2 gun with the guncon driver can track all the time (issues on dark areas - so would need more brightness/gamma in games like T2).

Not tried it myself, just read other peoples posts, but it was what caught my attention about the pc driver - apart from positional guns its the only realistic way I see of playing games with a gun that need to be able to hold down the gun. (T2 with an actlabs is v hard - you have to hammer the trigger, whereas the game is designed for continous machine gun fire.