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Regarding Rotary Controllers

CyranoJ

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Just in case people are sitting on the fence over getting one, I would recommend that you source one with at least 72 clicks per spin (ie, Chaos Reigns)

 

The game will allow you to calibrate to whatever you get, but higher is better.

 

As for button/rocker - I can't comment. I don't own one of the rocker type controllers, so it's not been tested with it. It looks like it works ok with tempest, but the controls are significantly different for Rebooteroids. You have to hold a button for thrust - not sure if you could hit the other buttons while doing that, and if fire or hyperspace is the opposite direction on the rocker... well, I don't see how you can push it in both directions at once.

 

Anyway, as previously stated, we're building and testing against Chaos Reigns as the stock standard spinner. I can promise you won't go wrong with one of those.

 

We also have a few more spinner games in the pipeline for future releases, so it should get more use than just Rebooteroids and Tempest - plus I think Impulse! will be using them?

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sh3-rg

I've used Chaos Reins, Tyrant & Jonathan Ascough (hope I spelled that correctly) and all play perfectly once you use the adjustment slider. It can take a minute or two trial and error to get it 100% spot on, but they all play perfectly. I find the CR spinner is the best for tempest as it's nice & twitchy as well as free-spinning, but the other two work well with it... shame there's no calibration there, it could be better. maybe you need to do your 2nd Jaguar ROM patch?

 

Impluse X supports spinners, mice & anything else you dare plug in it seems ;-)

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CyranoJ

If anyone making spinners would like to send us one on a permanent or loan basis, we will of course be happy to test it and see if it is possible to incorporate into the game.

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LinkoVitch

On the calibration slider screen, is there a graphic of the player ship you can spin with your current setting? If not may help with finding the right calibration ?

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CyranoJ

No, but the slider movement updates in "real time" as you adjust it, so it's pretty simple to set it up :)

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