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Mame Spinner for Arkanoid?
RandyT:
--- Quote from: rdowdy95 on June 30, 2007, 12:23:52 pm ---I use the slik stik tornando spinner. I don't change anything as far as the sensitivity goes, but man playing the original ark. is tough. Challenging to say the least. The arkanoid 2 is more like how it should be. So I just play the 2nd one.
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It's probably so tough because you need to turn the knob a heck of a lot further to get the paddle to move across the screen. Of course, DOH should be even worse in that respect, so maybe it's something else?
RandyT
rdowdy95:
--- Quote from: RandyT on June 30, 2007, 01:34:52 pm ---
--- Quote from: rdowdy95 on June 30, 2007, 12:23:52 pm ---I use the slik stik tornando spinner. I don't change anything as far as the sensitivity goes, but man playing the original ark. is tough. Challenging to say the least. The arkanoid 2 is more like how it should be. So I just play the 2nd one.
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It's probably so tough because you need to turn the knob a heck of a lot further to get the paddle to move across the screen. Of course, DOH should be even worse in that respect, so maybe it's something else?
RandyT
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Randy it has been years since I played the original Arkanoid. So is that how it is though. You really have to spin to get that thing to move. Cause for me to shoot the thing across the screen I do have to spin fast sometimes. I really don't remember. I don't mess with any sensitivity settings, btu I can say that Arkanoid 2 is easier for me to play cause by default that one is more sensitive to the spinner movement.
Kremmit:
--- Quote from: rhett on June 30, 2007, 01:41:16 am ---I really wish that I had known beforehand that the Turbo Twist 2 and SpinTrak are the only retail spinners that work with Arkanoid.
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Depends on your definition of "work". You can certainly play the game with the Tornado and other spinners, and up until very recently last year (how time flies), the TT2 and SpinTrak were not available. People did indeed play Arkanoid back then, in the olden days.
That said, today I'd still definately go with one of the above, or an original Arkanoid spinner.
telengard:
Good information. I had asked a *long* time ago wondering why Arkanoid felt weird w/ my Oscar model 1 spinner. It seemed like there was some serious lag between moving the spinner and seeing the vaus? move. I'm assuming that it didn't have enough teeth or something.
~telengard
Dreamwriter:
At least for Arkanoid 2, you want not only the TT2, but also the special Token-Top spinner top for it. That lets you add friction, so the spinner doesn't freespin, and kind-of fights as you turn it. Arkanoid 2 the spinner's gears are set so that you get that effect, so this setup gives you the closest you can get without getting the actual spinner from the arcade machine.
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