Re: Done - my new cabinet


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Posted by Tony C on 24, 2001 at 5:19 PM:

In Reply to: Re: Done - my new cabinet posted by Just Michael on 24, 2001 at 4:17 PM:

Maybe I'm not understanding you, but clearly the reason he has a 45 degree rotatable 4 way joystick has nothing to do with the commands received by MAME. The 4-way joysticks have a square "ring" rather than an octagonal one, so that the joystick naturally "slips into" one of the four cardinal directions. Rotating this to 45 degrees means that it slips into one of the four diagonals. This is clearly superior to just telling MAME to ignore or accept certain keys, as the joystick will actually feel right in addition to playing right.

It's a cool hack, it definitely has value for anyone who plays the 45 degree games, and I want one. :)

: : Yeah but not on a 4-way controller, right?

: : : You do realize that you can set mame to only accept diagonals for games like Qbert, right?

: a 4-way joystick will not do diagonals. on an 8-way joystick this would mean that only the diagonals would work.





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