Posted by bill connolly on 1, 2000 at 7:54 AM:
There was a thread on this a couple of months ago whicsh I can't find here or in the archieves. I haven't personally used MAME in almost 2 years but got my trackball and am mounting controls. Trying to determine if I need to mount a separate 4way stick.
The thread seemed to indicate that you could change something in MAME so 8ways would act like 4ways. There was a lot of discussion on the mechanics but when I posed the question, "does this mean I don't need a separate 4way stick and can use my 8way to play 4way games by modifying MAME to ignore diagonals", no one responded, probably because I posted the question several days after the thread started.
So if someone has an answer I would appreciate it. Thanks everyone.