MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: Question with changing rotary controls?

> Erm, yea I feel dumb. Why couldn't somebody just tell me that there was a dipswitch
> setting in S.A.R that makes the game non rotary? Guess nobody likes that game.
>
> Christ that's all it was. I thought there was some sort of custom rotary black magic
> config he did.
>
> Well, solved.

Unfortunately, for games that's don't have a setting to make them non-rotary, there's not really a great solution. All you can do in MAME, as far as I know, is assign controls to increment/decrement the rotary. It kind of works with this assigned to buttons or a second stick, but it's still pretty awkward and obviously not anything like the real thing. I've always thought you might be able to get a more effective setup using a spinner, i.e. joystick in the left hand for movement, and the spinner + buttons on the right. A spinner at least would be useful in more games than a rotary joystick. I've never tried it, though, so it might still be pretty awkward.