Trackball Directions Are Wonky - *Resolved*

[srarcade]

I have a Capcom Bowling (Coors Light edition  ) cab and it has a Happ trackball installed on it, works fantastic. I recently purchased U.S. Classic, a great golf game which also uses a Midi sized track ball (3in diameter). When I plugged in U.S. Classic, the trackball was all wonky. In test mode, if you roll it in a certain direction, it highlights all the directions U,D,L,R,D,R,L,R,U.. but it never just goes in the direction you're rolling, yet it works perfect on bowling. Any tips here? I'm pretty new to trackball stuff.

Thanks!

[Level42]

Sounds like switched over connectors.

[srarcade]

Yep that was it. I got both of the manuals and compared their jamma pinouts. Capcom bowling only uses the Up and Down pins and have values X and Y while U.S. Classic uses U D L and R pins in their respective directions. Once I rewired the harness, the game worked great. I'll just have to build a little switch so I can change the setup on the fly.

[mrclean]

Wonka no way of knowing.. exactly which way the track ball's gooooing'

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zail7Gdqro[/youtube]

[srarcade]

Awww man now i want to watch the whole thing! 

[Ummon]

Yeah, the original is still cool. The recent one blew. Over the top in the skits and music, and ---smurfing--- morbid in the 'history' scene. Lame. I too wondered what kind of person he really was/where did he come from?, but I didn't have to know, and definitely not that way.

[SavannahLion]

Yeah, the original is still cool. The recent one blew. Over the top in the skits and music, and ---smurfing--- morbid in the 'history' scene. Lame. I too wondered what kind of person he really was/where did he come from?, but I didn't have to know, and definitely not that way.

The whole childhood history thing was a bizarre direction they went. I've read both Chocolate Factory books and I don't recall that Wonka's history was ever addressed in that manner. The book does give tidbits at how he put the factory together, but doesn't go much further than that. Other than that, I didn't think there was any over the top skits or music.

I find it really tough to believe that Roald Dahl would've actually approved of that part of the film. It radically changes the meaning behind the film itself and draws too much focus away from Charlie. If Dahl didn't write that into the original script, I don't see why it needed to be added now. IMHO, Tim Burton needs to keep his hands off of established and well known stories and go back to making scripts out of his butt.

[RayB]

I find it really tough to believe that Roald Dahl would've actually approved of that part of the film.

Me too, seeing as how he died in 1990.

[SavannahLion]

I find it really tough to believe that Roald Dahl would've actually approved of that part of the film.

Me too, seeing as how he died in 1990.

After Roald Dahl's death, Felicity Dahl started work to create a new CatCF film in an effort to "fix" (or whatever) Dahl's supposed disappointment in the first film. Tim Burton picked up on the script and, naturally, altered it to suit his idiotic tendencies. When the new film was released, I recall a quote from Felicity stating that her husband would've been pleased with how the film turned out. Unfortunately, I can't recall where I saw that quote. The closest I could find is an article from BBC News that describes what Felicity did and why Tim Burton changed the script.

Within the article, there's an interesting quote:

"He thought it placed too much emphasis on Willy Wonka and not enough on Charlie," said Liz Attenborough, trustee of the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre in Buckinghamshire. "For him the book was about Charlie."

IMHO, Tim Burton's film places far more emphases on Wonka than the first film ever hinted at. So, once again, I find it really tough to believe that Roald Dahl would've actually approved of that part of the film.

[Level42]

I agree.

Although I do think that the whole "style" of Wonka in the new movie (the sinister feeling about it, f.i. especially the opening scene with the mechanic puppets that burn up) is very Roald Dahl. I thought that was a nice touch. It puzzled (and scared a bit) me and my son when we were watching it and that was Roald's style for sure.

I had to read out the subtitles to my son throughout the movie which was tiring.....

As always, read the book. That's probably 99% how it was meant to be. Wonka is a weird guy in the book too.