BigO Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 Does anybody actually play joystick games with joystick emulating trackballs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7800fan Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 I play a few 2600 games like Missile Command and Reactor with Sega Sportspad in joystick mode. Soooo much easier to play that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigO Posted December 28, 2015 Author Share Posted December 28, 2015 Anyone else? It seems like it's not a popular thing to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7800fan Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 Well, trackball feels different and probably takes a bit of getting used to. Plus it just won't work for games like Pitfall and Adventure so they'd have to swap controllers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigO Posted December 29, 2015 Author Share Posted December 29, 2015 Well, trackball feels different and probably takes a bit of getting used to. Plus it just won't work for games like Pitfall and Adventure so they'd have to swap controllers. Excellent point. To even come close to being playable in that sort of game, the trackball would have to "lock" in full active state for a direction with the slightest movement. That would require a relatively long time constant on the monostable which could in turn cause a little bit of overshoot when the motion stops. I may breadboard up a JS emulator one of these days and play around with varying the time constant just to see what happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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