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How do you control Asteroids?
dstone:
--- Quote from: FrizzleFried on July 12, 2007, 04:47:12 pm ---
--- Quote from: ChadTower on July 12, 2007, 10:35:50 am ---Original AD and Space Duel here... no MAME at all.
A spinner? Sounds good, but I think that control translation would be hard, wouldn't it?
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I'd imagine a spinner would be easy to get used to if you were a Blasteroids fan.
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Asteroids with a spinner is basically Omega Race. Lots of fun, too. Took me a while to get used to the Asteroids button layout since I had the OR for about a year before the AD. In all honesty, the controls for OR actually feel more natural (for me at least).
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: FrizzleFried on July 12, 2007, 04:47:12 pm ---I'd imagine a spinner would be easy to get used to if you were a Blasteroids fan.
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I mean the translation in software from optical device to a set of buttons. Might be tricky, though possibly done before, never tried it.
ArtMAME:
For my first cabinet, I built this control panel :
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=54556.msg534988#msg534988
It is optimized for Asteroids, Robotron, and Defender. It will actually do most of the Joystick/Button classics rather well. The middle Joystick is a 4-way for Pacman and others.
My second cabinet was an original upright Asteroids...
that's all I am gonna say... ;D
More Cowbell:
You can't control Asteroids, you can only hope to contain it. ;D
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--- Quote from: NoOne=NBA= on July 12, 2007, 08:14:10 pm ---
--- Quote from: vidmouse on July 12, 2007, 09:45:04 am ---Just curious how people set up their cabs for ... Asteroids-like games.
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That's an entirely different question than strictly for Asteroids.
Aside from needing spinners for alot of games, you will need to have multiple button arrays for some games, like Space Duel and Eliminator.
I built a Space Duel repro CP for my cab that used an extra button to allow you to play Asteroids in the middle of the cab.
It looked like this, and you played Asteroids on the red buttons.
OO OO OO OO
O O O
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I had a similar setup on my previous cab and I found the lower left and right button always got in the way. I know it sounds totally ghey but it made my pinky's get tired.
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