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Ikari Warriors. Can it be played?
Mark70:
I've messed with the settings for ikari warriors every which way I can think of. I tried using my wingman extreme joystick with the twist, with the throttle, map kepresses to joystick functions. There is no control combination that is as intuative as a rotary joystick. Any analog control is going to give you less than wonderful control over the rotation. You realy do need the 8 distinct positions of the original Ikari warriors joysticks.
Now, the scroll wheel option seems like a really good one here, but hacking a mouse to make a rotary joystick is a whole different ball game than hacking a mouse for a spinner.
lloydcom:
Here is something you can laugh at:
I put my spinner on the side of my cab, as my friend suggested. The results are cool. Easy to reach and lots of options to put side buttons. Tempest is sweet and there is no cramping or any boobs if you hit it on the CP (if installed traditionally).
I'm designing a platform for my USB joystick, a cheap PCline that has up and down buttons for discs of tron. With the spinner USB Stick option I can reach dizzying heights on DOT. Its cack for normal Tron as the 8 way USB joystick sucks on the lightcycles.... :blah:
Yet Ikari rocks with this combo, but I wish I had some restriction in the shaft to make it spin less. The scroll wheel has it though. maybe a spring gear on the hard drive spindle.... :blah:
The mouse scroll option works with the encoder on the spinner, and gives me an option to put another spinner on the other side of the cab, all on one mouse hack. I just cut the encoder sensor with a hacksaw and hot wire it to the scroll encoder wheel with some hot glue.
Surprising what you can make with a cheap mouse. ;D
AE35:
I used to play Ikari in the arcades with a normal joystick....there MUST be
a bootleg or something somewhere taht works with standard 8-way!!
ahofle:
Maybe you just stayed at the bottom of the screen the whole game ala Space Invaders? :P :laugh2:
AE35:
...I can also play CABAL without a trackball. It's magic!
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