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Loafmeister:
May be wrong but didn't the Lemmings arcade prototype support a trackball?  If so, I wonder why it didn't appear in the list?

lettuce:
Thanks for the List NOP, im just dl romlister now, i think i just stick with spinner based games, there'll be no room really for a trackball on my bartop

Turnarcades:
Thanks for that; I'm about to build my new personal arcade machine with a trackball and spinner, so I can now pick out these games individually and set up the controls as I like them.

lettuce:
Hmm, Well according to Romlister there doesnt seem to be too many vertical games that have a spinner as a control method:

Arkanoid
Arkanoid Revenge Of Doh
Arm Champs II
Atari Mini Golf
Block
Block Block
Cosmic Chasm
Imola Grand Prix
Kick
Kick man
Lady Frog
Mahjong Block Jongbou
Moonwar
Paddle 2
Quester
Razzmatazz
Riddle Of Pythagoras
Street Heat
Tac/Scan
Tempest
Tournamment Arkanoid
Vs. Host Smash

With Tempest & Arkanoid the only games ive heard of, but then i noticed it has listed Gyruss, so what other games has it missed and why??

u_rebelscum:

--- Quote from: lettuce on August 28, 2008, 12:39:25 pm ---...With Tempest & Arkanoid the only games ive heard of, but then i noticed it has listed Gyruss, so what other games has it missed and why??

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It'll miss games like Ikari that used a rotary joystick, but can be played with joystick + spinner.  They'll miss because mame uses mame's "newest" input type called "positional" that was added to cover not-quite-spinners (like 12 direction rotaries), and not-quite-analog sticks.  Last I checked, listxml doesn't output this type, yet.



--- Quote from: NOP on August 28, 2008, 11:55:45 am ---...The biggest problem is that MAME typically describes trackball games as joy8way, so there is going to be a lot of missing entries if controls.dat hasn't described them properly....

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Any examples of these TB games mame lists as 8ways? ???

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