Arkanoid Spinner question.

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I have a mame machine with a spinner and I was wondering how many degrees you needed to turn the spinner to go from the left side of the screen to the right side of the screen on the original machine. :confused:
 
Don't you mean how many rotations?

I hope you know that there is no way to correlate the response of the spinner in MAME to match that of the original arcade game.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.
 
First off... You can adjust the spinner speed per degree therefore I can have any sensitivity I want. Thus rendering your argument invalid.

When I played the true arkanoid I didn't need to do several rotations just to go from one side of the screen to the other...

Does someone know how many degrees I need to turn the spinner to do one edge of the screen to the other?
 
First off... You can adjust the spinner speed per degree therefore I can have any sensitivity I want. Thus rendering your argument invalid.

When I played the true arkanoid I didn't need to do several rotations just to go from one side of the screen to the other...

Does someone know how many degrees I need to turn the spinner to do one edge of the screen to the other?

Of course several rotations are not needed. the spinner will rotate 120-130 degrees to get the paddle from the far left to the far right of the screen.

And my "argument" isn't invalid. You are obviously a newbie. What I said was a statement of fact. Not an "argument". And adjusting the "spinner speed per degree" makes no sense.

Nevertheless, there are signals from analog controls that MAME cannot interpret because the MAME development team hasn't seen a reason to do so, because they consider control response "close enough". So you will not be able to adjust for the exact control response you get on the arcade platform, and I've not heard that the MAME developers have corrected this issue.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.
 
Nevertheless, there are signals from analog controls that MAME cannot interpret because the MAME development team hasn't seen a reason to do so, because they consider control response "close enough".

Would you please stop posting random stupid crap in this post?

First off; The controls are not analog. They're optical (digital). Who's the newbie? http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=6916
Controls CLEARLY states (rotary: optical.)

Second; It's possible to calibrate the spinner to reach one side of the screen to the other with 120 degree and to make sure the center is 60 degree. Knowing the right rotation angle will make it possible to calibrate the spinner to be exactly like the original machine.

Third; After reading all this nonsense I'm not even positive that the 120 to 130 degree is even accurate.. What to expect someone who argues about machine controls when he don't even know what type of control it uses.
 
Would you please stop posting random stupid crap in this post?
"Random stupid crap"? You obviously wouldn't know crap if it was right under your nose.
First off; The controls are not analog. They're optical (digital). Who's the newbie? http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=6916
Controls CLEARLY states (rotary: optical.)
Of course they are optical. They are digital controls that are suppose to simulate analog controls. And that's the part that MAME does not emulate exactly the way Arkanoid does.
Second; It's possible to calibrate the spinner to reach one side of the screen to the other with 120 degree and to make sure the center is 60 degree. Knowing the right rotation angle will make it possible to calibrate the spinner to be exactly like the original machine.
And you are still wrong. There can be many speeds when rotating between two points. I said control response.
Third; After reading all this nonsense I'm not even positive that the 120 to 130 degree is even accurate.. What to expect someone who argues about machine controls when he don't even know what type of control it uses.

I know more about Arkanoid controls than you do, since I spent more time working on/with them than any other kind of controls.


Of course you did. And it's funny you should post that, because it is exactly what I told you.

Daren Harris
Stten Island, New York.
 
I DONT EVEN KNOW WHY IM YELLING!!!

I'm no Mame expert but I have adjusted the response of my spinner. But unsure how relative it is to a dedicated arkanoid, tempest, tron... Er whatever.

Good luck with your tweeks
 
I just measured the Arkanoid spinner I have on my test bench, and it took around 160 degrees of rotation to get the vaus to go from one side to the other.
 
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