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2600:
txtworld,
Currently a mouse hack, but I was planning on switching that out.  I just haven't played in a while.  If you do a search, I'm actually use the P360 joys that I made into optical rotaries.


Xiaou2,
I use buttons for the up/down levels.  You use 4 buttons, but you don't really operate them all at the same time.  IIRC, you can only have 3 discs on the screen so you aren't constantly pressing fire.  Because of that, you also have to set your shots up and you plan ahead.  Once I see a shot, I tend to fire all 3 discs at once at SARK(?) so that I get the angle right and he can't move left or right.  It gets faster during the later levels and there is more strategy, but I tend to do the same thing unless I see a quick shot.


It just comes down to different strokes for different folks.  I don't have an actual tron sitting in front of me to compare side by side, but last time I played it I just didn't like playing it that way and preferred to aim like I did in Ikari.  It's probably the same reason why I can not use a keyboard and mouse to play a FPS, but a lot of other people say it's the only way to play a FPS.

elsie:

--- Quote from: cornishHen on January 14, 2008, 12:12:06 pm ---If you have any interest in such a mod, I have additional photos I can provide.

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Im thinking of doing something similar with my saitek st-290.  How did you wind up mounting your joystick in your cp?  Any pictures from underneath?

Thanks

DeLuSioNal29:

--- Quote from: DeLuSioNal29 on January 14, 2008, 12:53:12 pm ---I don't plan on using the tron covers, but I'll probably leave it as is (it's black).  It's not the wingman so is a little smaller too at the base.  I'll have to take it apart and see.  Thanks!  It's good to hear someone else has succeeded in modding a PC joy.  $100+ for the real deal is a bit steep!

Regards,

~ D

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I finally got a chance to take a couple of pics.  Do you think it's doable?

genesim:
2600,

I agree totally.  It is all about how you learn a game.   Of course there are some people that can't stand if you waiver at all from the norm.

That said, how do you handle computer games?   Do you do like I do and go with a trackball for point of view mouse movements and use the trigger and joystick for movement?

I never could stand the keyboard at all.    Even back when I was discovering Doom, as soon as I figured out how to hack buttons on a gamepad, the keyboard went out the window.

genesim:

--- Quote from: Xiaou2 ---Only way I could see that happening is if you made a foot pedal to control the
Up / Down axis.
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This is could work.    Something like this could be a great work around.

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