Varan Posted May 12, 2002 Share Posted May 12, 2002 How do you drop bombs? I can't even get passed first level without the second attack. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted May 12, 2002 Share Posted May 12, 2002 According to the manual, Press either top side Joystick button to drop strontium bombs. Press either bottom side Joystick button to fire laser bolts.. If you'd like to read the original manual, we have a scan of it here. Enjoy! ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inky Posted May 12, 2002 Share Posted May 12, 2002 quote: Originally posted by Albert: According to the manual, Press either top side Joystick button to drop strontium bombs. Press either bottom side Joystick button to fire laser bolts. . If you'd like to read the original manual, we have a scan of it here. Enjoy! ..Al I think he's meaning in emulation. One emulator doesn't display the grafix properly, and the other onew (800win, I believe) doesn't emulate both 5200 buttons. I'd play ito n a real 52 if I had one again, but alas, I do not. Stupidly gave it away years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Varan Posted May 12, 2002 Author Share Posted May 12, 2002 I'm using MESS and it says keyboard emulation is not 100% for the 5200 and recommends Joystick. Mine's broken. Bah! I just ordered a USB adapter that allows me to use my PS2 controller on my PC. I'll see how that works. My friend already got his and says it works great in MAME. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Varan Posted May 17, 2002 Author Share Posted May 17, 2002 Just updated to latest version of MESS. No updates to 5200 were included so still can't drop bombs. I'm hoping my USB PSX Controller adapter will be in my mailbox when I get home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inky Posted May 18, 2002 Share Posted May 18, 2002 quote: Originally posted by Varan: Just updated to latest version of MESS. No updates to 5200 were included so still can't drop bombs. I'm hoping my USB PSX Controller adapter will be in my mailbox when I get home. That stinks as Dreadnaught is probably one of the best games on the 5200, and it also makes good use of the bad controllers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+-^CrossBow^- Posted May 20, 2002 Share Posted May 20, 2002 Wasn't there a new release of the Atari800win Plus emu not long ago? I know that one of the new features it supports is the second fire button on the 5200 controller mapping. I haven't downloaded or checked it out for myself yet...but I do know that is one of the items it now has. As that was the one thing I complained about that emu..hehe.. Check the archives here and I am sure you will find it somewhere mentioned. I want to say that was at the beginning of last month or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Varan Posted May 20, 2002 Author Share Posted May 20, 2002 Well, I got my USB adapter to use my PSX controller and it works great with MAME! But it doesn't work with the 5200 emulation in MESS. SUXORS! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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