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AAAGH! Unfortunate illness ending your gameplaying days!!!!
ratzz:
Good luck with your recovery.
We all take our health and family far too much for granted sometimes - its worth just stopping and taking a moment to think how lucky we are.
Ratzz :cheers:
Turnarcades:
Thanks for your comments guys, any suggestions are welcome, and I am training my left arm to do new things daily.
I was trying to play the Wii version of one of my favourite games; Resident Evil 4, but this becomes tiring very quickly. I will be buying my own though as this system is ideal for obvious reasons. I may even try to incorporate one into a cabinet one day.
I found there were some games that were ok to play comfortably, mainly sports games like Hyper Sports, Track and Field etc., where simultaneous joystick/button action is not required. I'd rather not resolve to just playing point and click games on a PC, it's not really my bag.
Certain vertical shooters are good to play, as well as casino games (I'm a big card player in the real world) and joystick only games like pac-man. I may swap out the joysticks on my own cabinet for ones with buttons on, but a top-fire joystick does not give enough playability options and big ugly flight sticks would not have the right feel for certain games.
I need something like the old quickshot joysticks a la spectrums and the like, with several buttons on the stick, but a lot harder wearing and cab-friendly too.
I'm sure it will come to me.
saint:
Good luck on your recover mate - attitude is very important here and it sounds like you've got the right one. I had a 21-year old employee that suffered a stroke (sounds like yours, he had a hole in his heart undetected since birth). It's taken him about a year but he's recovered most of his functionality. Sheer determination carried him most of the way, and refusal to accept any limitation that he hadn't pressed against first. I'm pulling for you!
--- saint
arcadefever:
Hello,
i wish you the best, and hope that you will completly recover ...
keep fighting :cheers:
the game is not over ;)
Smack:
Have you considered making a small external floorboard (similar to a guitar pedalboard) that you could trigger buttons with one of your feet if you were seated on a stool? You could put a network jack, use cat5 cable and make it removable?
See if the source could be tweaked / cheat code for rapid fire so you can just hold one button down for shooting games?
Just thinking out loud...
Thank you for sharing. I wish you the best in your recovery as well!
Scott
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