how to play american horseshoes?

[Wade]

Will someone explain this to me?  I can't get the guys to throw.  What am I missing??

Thanks,
Wade

[SirPoonga]

I think it's just a push on the trackball.

[Howard_Casto]

Yeah you have two hook buttons (like bowling)  and a trackball.  It's pretty much unplayable with digital controls.

[Wade]

Thanks guys.  I was trying to roll forward with a mouse but couldnt' get anything to register.  I tried it this weekend on my cab with the trackball and sure enough, the forward roll throws it (into the house across the street!!)  I guess it was a difference in sensitivity or something.

Wade

[rampy]

Thanks guys.  I was trying to roll forward with a mouse but couldnt' get anything to register.  I tried it this weekend on my cab with the trackball and sure enough, the forward roll throws it (into the house across the street!!)  I guess it was a difference in sensitivity or something.

Wade

How's the infamous re-built trackball of doom working for you, wade?

hope it goes well.  Getting sensitvity right in games is still a bit of a lost art to me, but sometimes I'm not sure if I should blame my ps/2 hack on that or if it's but i digress.

Rampy

[jerryjanis]

All I know is that we tried playing American Horseshoes after several late nights of Shuuz and quickly decided that American Horseshoes was a load of crap...  Shuuz rules (Atari's horseshoe game).

[paigeoliver]

American Horseshoes has a really narrow area of input. I never really got it set right, but after a bunch of practice I was able to kind of play it.

[Wade]

rampy and others,

    I adjusted the sensitivity down to where a hard whirl will make it hit the max power and a soft whirl will make it hit low power.  It's pretty playable now.  I'm not sure what setting I used but for most games it seems like 10-20% is about right.  I got backspin if I set the sensitivity too high on just about any game.  I set it higher on games like Centipede and Missile Command where you only move around a fixed screen and don't do any whirls.  I have only set the sensitivity in each game once or twice and it seems to work pretty well.  Haven't changed any of them for days.

    Yeah rampy the trackball from hell ordeal is finally over.  My latest hack actually worked.  Now I need to make sure those extra optic boards still work (after my desoldering and resoldering the optics).

Wade