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Reged: 03/08/05
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Loc: Ottawa, Ontario
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Re: Needing help with controller calibration problems running pole position ll and other racing games
06/26/12 08:29 AM
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First of all, you should really use an analog stick (assuming your gamepad has them) rather than a D-pad for games with steering wheels, flight sticks, or other analog controls.
Unfortunately, you're never going to have entirely satisfactory results using either a joystick or a D-pad to play Pole Position. As you've discovered, releasing the joystick doesn't center the steering wheel. To stop turning, you have to push the joystick in the opposite direction. The reason is that on a real machine the wheel doesn't have a "center" position--it spins freely. Pole Position is one of the few games in MAME that you really can't play properly without an input device that's a one-for-one match to the original hardware (i.e. you need a real free-spinning wheel).
Another would be non-shooting trackball games like Marble Madness and Segasonic--you can sort of use an analog joystick, but it's awkward and unnatural (for shooting games like Missile Command or Cabal, a mouse works pretty well)
Fortunately, nearly all other behind-the-wheel arcade racing games (Outrun, etc.) use steering wheels that are paddles--they have a center position and turn a fixed distance in either direction from the center. Paddles map perfectly to one axis of an analog joystick, and you can play Outrun beautifully with a PS3/Xbox-style controller.
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