Posted by LuSiD on 22, 2000 at 6:53 PM:
In Reply to: Need info on how to play 4-way games with 8-way joys posted by Magnet Eye on 22, 2000 at 1:27 AM:
Yes,
You can use the Or, And and Not operators in the control config on the four way games to help. For example, you could set it to totally ignore diagonals, or to favor horizontal motion when the stick is in a diagnonal position. It's not as good as having a four way stick, since a 4 way cannot go into a diagonal, but it may help.
For Example, lets say, in PacMan you want to disable diagonals. Use the following keystrokes:
for P1 Up: Up Left Left Right Right
Will read: UP not LEFT not RIGHT
for P1 Left: Left Up Up Down Down
Will read: LEFT not UP not Down
for P1 Right: Right up up down down
Will read: RIGHT not UP not DOWN
for P1 Down: Down Left Left Right Right
Will read: DOWN not LEFT not RIGHT
And now it will completely ignore the stick when it's in a diagonal.
If you want it to favor left & right motion, then only use the settings for UP and DOWN. Then if the stick is in the UP-Left, the game will read it as left. Etc.
A similar thing can be done in Qbert, where the stick _should_ be rotated 45 degrees. You can map UP to UP-Left, etc to mimic the real controller more accurately.
The OR operator can also be usefull on a cabinet where the original game had people trading off on one set of controls. Like Galaga for example.
You can set it up so that it will respond to both the player1 and player2 controls so you don't have to take turns on the player 1 controller.
To set more then 1 key to operate the same function, press enter after setting the first button then press the second. (i.e. button 1, enter, button2, enter button3...)
OK, enough already. I'll stop before I confuse myself.
Here's the short version:
AND: press the keys at the same time
Or: press enter between keystrokes
Not: press the key twice
note: MAME doesn't display the AND.
-LuSiD