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leapinlew:

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--- Quote from: leapinlew on April 25, 2008, 07:35:26 pm ---Gyruss and Time Pilot

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I own a Gyruss and it has a joystick... not sure about Time Pilot..

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I was going to say something. . .   I guess (and hope) he was joking about that, because both Gyruss and Time Pilot are definitely 8-way stick games.  But they're both the sort of games you can look at and say, "hmm, maybe this should have been made for a spinner, it might have been good that way".

If Tempest 2000 can be good with a thumb pad, maybe Gyruss could be good with a spinner.   :dunno



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Thing is, both Gyruss and Time Pilot should be played with a spinner. I think it would make the game much more playable.

I'm planning on building a spinner based cabinet and it'll have both Time Pilot and Gyruss on it.

leapinlew:
Question regarding Typhoon and Tempest 2k - those are 4:3 games only or can they be played on a vertical setup?

Zobeid:

--- Quote from: leapinlew on April 27, 2008, 11:52:56 am ---Thing is, both Gyruss and Time Pilot should be played with a spinner. I think it would make the game much more playable.

I'm planning on building a spinner based cabinet and it'll have both Time Pilot and Gyruss on it.

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Can you really make that work?  Both of those games were programmed to accept 8-way stick input, I'm not sure whether MAME can translate spinner input into that kind of stick input in a useful way.  I'm guessing it might require a pretty serious hack.

It's a neat idea, but I'm not optimistic about getting it to work in a satisfying way.


--- Quote ---Question regarding Typhoon and Tempest 2k - those are 4:3 games only or can they be played on a vertical setup?
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They are 4:3 horizontal games.  T2K is an Atari Jaguar game of course, so it was designed strictly for a TV set.

Typhoon 2001 has some options to adjust the aspect ratio which "can prove useful if you play the game on an 16:9 TV or something like that", according to the website.  I have some doubts about whether you can get it to actually rotate the display 90 degrees for a vertical monitor though.  It's just not made for that.

I hadn't given it a thought myself, since I'm building a rotating-monitor cabinet anyhow.   8)

ADDENDUM: I just realized Typhoon 2001 also requires a joystick to move you up and down, only for the bonus stages.  Which is no problem. . .  It's just a little peculiarity that it inherited from T2K, where everything was done with the thumb pad.

leapinlew:

--- Quote from: Zobeid on April 27, 2008, 12:42:21 pm ---
--- Quote from: leapinlew on April 27, 2008, 11:52:56 am ---Thing is, both Gyruss and Time Pilot should be played with a spinner. I think it would make the game much more playable.

I'm planning on building a spinner based cabinet and it'll have both Time Pilot and Gyruss on it.

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Can you really make that work?  Both of those games were programmed to accept 8-way stick input, I'm not sure whether MAME can translate spinner input into that kind of stick input in a useful way.  I'm guessing it might require a pretty serious hack.

It's a neat idea, but I'm not optimistic about getting it to work in a satisfying way.

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Well then... be watching for my project announcement in the next couple weeks.

_Iz-:

--- Quote from: Zobeid on April 27, 2008, 12:42:21 pm ---
Can you really make that work?  Both of those games were programmed to accept 8-way stick input, I'm not sure whether MAME can translate spinner input into that kind of stick input in a useful way.  I'm guessing it might require a pretty serious hack.


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If memory serves, Dave Widel (www.widel.com) did a version of mame that converted gyruss (and some others) to spinner input.

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