Posted by Lilwolf on February 15, 2002 at 15:04:50:
In Reply to: 4 way joysticks... do i REALLY need one? posted by Chris on February 15, 2002 at 12:42:00:
I play MUCH better with a keyboard then I do with an 8way in pengo.
The real answer is no. There are ways to make the 8way closer to a 4way.. but nothing that really works.
there are two problems.
1) Applications don't know what to do with a diagonal. So you get weird results (really weird sometimes). So you can put in mame up-notleft-notright, left-notup-notdown, ect. But this creates a new problem. Dead zones.
2) Dead zones are the diagonals that your really thought you are going up or moving from left to up or whatever, but it doesn't show up as anything. Makes the controls really unresponsive. This is only really solved with a true 4way
(again, they are 10bucks if you have room, 20 if you want plates.) IE, onlye 2% of what you spend on your ocntrol panel