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<blockquote data-quote="EccentricFlower" data-source="post: 212026" data-attributes="member: 5393"><p>I know y'all were all on the edge of your seat about my weird experiment to try to play TPA with a joystick. (I kid. I know you don't give a flying fart, but I'm gonna update anyway.)</p><p></p><p>What I did was, the joystick has four buttons up on the head of the joystick (plus a top hat); the lower pair of those buttons were mapped to flippers and the upper pair mapped to alt. flippers (y'know, in case I one day actually remember MagnaSave exists or bother using the third flipper in Starship Troopers). The joystick motions themselves were not for the flippers, but for nudging. Trigger for ball launch. (Enter and backspace were mapped to buttons on the joystick base and the top hat mapped to arrow keys for menu navigation.)</p><p></p><p>The joystick trigger gave me more control over the plunger than spacebar does, which is interesting, and the flipper buttons worked GREAT. I thought it might be a problem to be working with my hands that close together at the top of the joystick, but no.</p><p></p><p>The problem is, it didn't make nudging easier or more effective, which was the whole point of the experiment. I was hoping that in desperation I would be able to jolt the joystick to one side, rather than reaching for a key in panic that I can't find ... but it turns out that I'm just not very good at remembering to nudge, or timing nudges, or even remembering which way to nudge. (I was never good at it on real pinball tables either.) Also this joystick has a pretty firm threshold for "off zero" and I had to remember to nudge it HARD.</p><p></p><p>Back onto the shelf it goes until my next MAME bender. Oh well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EccentricFlower, post: 212026, member: 5393"] I know y'all were all on the edge of your seat about my weird experiment to try to play TPA with a joystick. (I kid. I know you don't give a flying fart, but I'm gonna update anyway.) What I did was, the joystick has four buttons up on the head of the joystick (plus a top hat); the lower pair of those buttons were mapped to flippers and the upper pair mapped to alt. flippers (y'know, in case I one day actually remember MagnaSave exists or bother using the third flipper in Starship Troopers). The joystick motions themselves were not for the flippers, but for nudging. Trigger for ball launch. (Enter and backspace were mapped to buttons on the joystick base and the top hat mapped to arrow keys for menu navigation.) The joystick trigger gave me more control over the plunger than spacebar does, which is interesting, and the flipper buttons worked GREAT. I thought it might be a problem to be working with my hands that close together at the top of the joystick, but no. The problem is, it didn't make nudging easier or more effective, which was the whole point of the experiment. I was hoping that in desperation I would be able to jolt the joystick to one side, rather than reaching for a key in panic that I can't find ... but it turns out that I'm just not very good at remembering to nudge, or timing nudges, or even remembering which way to nudge. (I was never good at it on real pinball tables either.) Also this joystick has a pretty firm threshold for "off zero" and I had to remember to nudge it HARD. Back onto the shelf it goes until my next MAME bender. Oh well. [/QUOTE]
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