Posted by Tom61 on 20, 2000 at 12:31 AM:
In Reply to: Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters question posted by CaVol on 19, 2000 at 10:19 PM:
: I posted this over at Arcade@Home as well, so forgive the repeat. Could you rotate the stick in the game to rotate the player while standing still? MAME does not seem to support this feature of the game if in so you could do that. In a game like heavy barrel, you can use mouse input to rotate the players. Why isn't this done in EPROM as well. AM I imagining things? The KLOV says you could rotate the players as well. If I knew this could be done in MAME, I would seriously consider getting a rotary joystick or two. Any info would be appreciated.
Considering it used Hall-Effect joysticks, I don't think it rotated like Heavy Barrel. I think the meantion in KLOV about being able to rotate in any direction means that you can reaim the player in any direction, unlike most games that only aim the player in 45 degree increments. The joysticks in the picture do not appear to be the rotatable kind.
Now if I could only figure out why Cabal in Mame is joystick based and not trackball... The joystick version of the game uses a "joystick encoder" to make joysticks output trackball compatable.