Posted by Bill Lash on 9, 2000 at 7:21 PM:
In Reply to: And the Verdict is... " Electronically " posted by xiaou2 on 8, 2000 at 7:02 PM:
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: Fist I must say... that I use a Happ
: 'Competition' Joystick, and have little problems. It works really well in 4 or 8 way games.
: The 'Supers' however do not... so...
: If you really need to do this, the best way is to do it electronically. Make a circuit that registers the first direction you press... If you press left - the character would go left...but if you accidentally swooped it to up+left... the Up would not register UNTILL the 'left' switch was released.
Interesting, but it seems to me that you could change the code in the inptport.c file in MAME to get this behavior. It currently has code in it to handle 4way joysticks (look for the code that uses the IPF_4WAY define) but it uses a Most Recent Used strategy, whereas you are proposing a Least Recently Used strategy. That is, MAME currently will go UP when you were going left and hit left and up. At least that is how I read the code. The code might be broken as well. I am not sure how much better a job you can do electronically than you can by changing the code in MAME. The mechanical solutions would definitely feel more like the old games I think.
: Remember, the old 4 ways only allowed one direction at a time... so this would work the same.
: I dont know how to build this circuit... but Im sure it couldnt be all that hard... could it?
: Sincerely,
: Steve
: :)