Posted by Jeoff Krontz on 8, 2000 at 10:56 PM:
In Reply to: Why are you so intent on using hardware to make joys four-way, when software can do the job? posted by Tom61 on 8, 2000 at 10:41 PM:
: http://www.arcadecontrols.com/wwwboard/messages/7603.html a thread describing how to mkae Mame ignore diaganols...
I would guess it is for the same reason that a lot of people put 4-way joysticks on their control panels. You could argue they don't need that either.
Does the software method have the same "feel" as if the joystick were 4-way? I just played Ms. Pac Man with these settings and it was still difficult to control, but that could just be because I'm not used to the joystick yet.