Intentionally causing blocking to make and 8 way joystick 4 way?

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Posted by Bob L. on 27, 2000 at 7:58 PM:

I have a powerramp and when I play Pacman and other 4 way games I have problems. It's my understanding that the game gets confused by receiving two signals simultaneously ie. UP+LEFT. Years ago I used to play a PC game(Star Control) where you could select any keys to control the game. There was a utility that let you test the keys to make sure they all worked together. Certain keys when pressed together would be interpreted as a diferent key altogether and some combos would cancel each other out. I was thinking that if I purposely selected keys for UP, RIGHT, DOWN and LEFT that when pressed together would cancel each other, then it would in effect make my 8way joystick a 4way. Has anybody tried this already? I don't want to waste time going down a dead end that somebody already has.

Thanks

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Re: Intentionally causing blocking to make and 8 way joystick 4 way? Chris (Fultra) 4/27/2000 (0)
The Power Ramp doesn't have any ghosting/masking problems Tom61 4/27/2000 (1)
- Re: The Power Ramp doesn't have any ghosting/masking problems Bob L. 4/28/2000 (0)

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: I have a powerramp and when I play Pacman and other 4 way games I have problems. It's my understanding that the game gets confused by receiving two signals simultaneously ie. UP+LEFT. Years ago I used to play a PC game(Star Control) where you could select any keys to control the game. There was a utility that let you test the keys to make sure they all worked together. Certain keys when pressed together would be interpreted as a diferent key altogether and some combos would cancel each other out. I was thinking that if I purposely selected keys for UP, RIGHT, DOWN and LEFT that when pressed together would cancel each other, then it would in effect make my 8way joystick a 4way. Has anybody tried this already? I don't want to waste time going down a dead end that somebody already has. : Thanks

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