1972 Mod

[Forrest]

It's somewhat of a pain to have to push the joystick up and down to enter 1972 for the two hidden games on the FB2. Has anyone devised a simple hack to enable these games to appear with just a button press. Say a programmed PIC, SX or PICAXE processor that will emulate the joystick up/down movement to enable these two games.

Edited November 19, 2006 by Forrest

[supercat]

It's somewhat of a pain to have to push the joystick up and down to enter 1972 for the two hidden games on the FB2. Has anyone devised a simple hack to enable these games to appear with just a button press. Say a programmed PIC, SX or PICAXE processor that will emulate the joystick up/down movement to enable these two games.

 

Actually, even a Y connector would be very helpful, to allow a joystick and paddles to be installed simultaneously.

 

Or, as an even easier approach, simply show the paddle games menu if paddles are detected on startup; the menu would have to itself be operable with paddles, but that shouldn't be too hard. If nothing else, allow use of SELECT/RESET.

[Clint Thompson]

Wow, and to think I haven't even tried this yet. What were the games again?

[jpfalcon2003]

let us know. i have a fb2 and never tried this either

[Forrest]

The extra games are Warlords and Super Breakout - they both require paddles. See the second message here for more info FB2 FAQ