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making your own frontline style controller
wugly:
This is a picture of my control panel and my built frontline controller project.
about my control panel the sticks are inline to promote tank style play but for single tank play only the two center sticks are used. the 4 sticks also have thumb buttons that plug into jacks above the sticks and foot pedals may be plugged into there in case I want to remove the spinners and put steering wheels on them instead. the shafts are bushinged and hence forth no weight is transmitted to the bearings. the lower right spinner is my primary game spinner and is actually quite comfortable using it. the control panel unplugs and is removeable to get it through the door. The steering wheel on the left side is usually a small spinner control but I changed it to show that it could be converted in under a minute
Spyridon:
Wow, you lost me on the build, but congrats on getting it working. Front Line is a great game and not at all playable on my MAME cab (luckily I have a dedicated one).
You really have a lot going on with that control panel. Since this is so game specific, did you give thought to having a separate swappable panel for these games. It would probably be more comfortable to use.
cw:
--- Quote from: delta88 on August 03, 2009, 01:30:04 am ---I had one back when.. Is the gaem that great that this much effort needs to go into using the controler? IIR isnt there another game from taito that uses the same controller?
--- End quote ---
tin star
wild western
frontline
all used the same controls
bkenobi:
So this is an 8-way rotary disk of sorts? I looked on MAWS and it indicated dual 8-way rotary joystick. Looks to me like the left stick is a standard 8-way and the right is a 4- or 8-way rotary joystick that's been smashed into a disk.
If I'm right about those assumptions, couldn't this be played with an 8-way + an Ikari stick? I'll have to fire it up, but my pair of LS-30's seem like they would be great for this game.
cw:
you could the only diff would be not being able to push to fire which would make it much harder to take your hand off of the stick to hit a button to fire
but....
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