Saturn 2 emu cab friendly?

[kcoops]

I see two controllers for the Saturn:

one with an analogue stick

one without

Does anyone know if the majority of saturn roms use analogue or digital?

I use an 8-way Sanwa stick and 6 happ buttons and so I'm wondering how many saturn games will work on my cab.

Thanks guys.

[Brian Hoffman]

I see two controllers for the Saturn:

one with an analogue stick

one without

Does anyone know if the majority of saturn roms use analogue or digital?

I use an 8-way Sanwa stick and 6 happ buttons and so I'm wondering how many saturn games will work on my cab.

Thanks guys.

Im sure its about half and half.

possable soultions are use a gamepad with analog support or get one of those fancy arcade joysticks.

Personally I dont have too much an issue using my digital controls... Its just not as persise

[kcoops]

Im sure its about half and half.

possable soultions are use a gamepad with analog support or get one of those fancy arcade joysticks.

Personally I dont have too much an issue using my digital controls... Its just not as persise

Brian,

So you can actually use an 8-way digital stick in place of an analogue?

[Brian Hoffman]

Brian,

So you can actually use an 8-way digital stick in place of an analogue?

Most emus will let you define keys for analog.

Eg.. I can play mario kart using my IPAC

[Stu1983]

Im sure its about half and half.

possable soultions are use a gamepad with analog support or get one of those fancy arcade joysticks.

Personally I dont have too much an issue using my digital controls... Its just not as persise

It's probably more like 99% use digital, I can only think of 1 game that used the analog controller and that was Nights and it works ok with digital controls

I feel you're getting too hung up on this analog/digital stuff, the majority of games that state they need analog still work with digital just not quite as good... like you might have trouble running across a small ledge in Mario64 or something but other than that it's completely playable

Stu

[Brian Hoffman]

It's probably more like 99% use digital, I can only think of 1 game that used the analog controler and that was Nights and it works ok with digital controls

Stu

I dont have space on my HD for my Saturn games

Well Im a little bummed about my SSF fullscreen issue.

[Stu1983]

Well Im a little bummed about my SSF fullscreen issue.

What SSF issue is this, I must've missed it? I have mine going rather nicely now on my new PC?

Stu

[kcoops]

OK this is great. I think the next issue is:

DUAL ANALOGUE

With only 1 stick per player this is impossible. How has everyone got around this? I'm assuming games that require dual analogue are unplayable on a cab with arcade sticks?

[Stu1983]

OK this is great. I think the next issue is:

DUAL ANALOGUE

With only 1 stick per player this is impossible. How has everyone got around this? I'm assuming games that require dual analogue are unplayable on a cab with arcade sticks?

Not everything that needs dual analog really needs it, some games only need the second analog stick to control the camera and generally I can live without it, some games like a FPS might use it for aiming though, so you would need it but you'll never manage to aim properly with a digital stick anyway... I was trying GoldenEye the other night... not pretty

Stu

[kcoops]

Not everything that needs dual analog really needs it, some games only need the second analog stick to control the camera and generally I can live without it, some games like a FPS might use it for aiming though, so you would need it but you'll never manage to aim properly with a digital stick anyway... I was trying GoldenEye the other night... not pretty

Stu

So would you say N64 games would be perfectly playable on a cab with one 8-way stick and 6 buttons?

[Brian Hoffman]

So would you say N64 games would be perfectly playable on a cab with one 8-way stick and 6 buttons?

Perfectly is a though thing to say. Most emulation is 100 percent perfect..

I will say it is enjoyable.

Happy gaming

[Stu1983]

So would you say N64 games would be perfectly playable on a cab with one 8-way stick and 6 buttons?

I wouldn't say it's perfect but it certainly works well with with a digital stick, the biggest problem is the number of buttons as the n64 had 8 commonly used ingame buttons plus the start button I opted to ditch the CUP and CRight buttons

Stu

[bkenobi]

I tried Golden Eye a few weeks back and remember how cool it was on the real thing...I was disapointed by the difficulty aiming though

[kcoops]

Yeah I just checked the standard N64 controller and there are definately some buttons that can be left out.

Just FYI, here is a c+v of what I found:

"On the left is a directional digital control pad (M) like that used in side scrolling games and in the middle section is a small analog joystick (J) used for 3D games (although itâ??s still only a 2D joystick). There are buttons galore - a "Start" button (S) in the middle for starting games; two action buttons (A & slightly to the right of the Start button for controlling game action; four camera control buttons © in a diamond array which allow you to move the viewing position in 3D games; special toggle buttons (D) on the front of the controller (top in diagram below), and a trigger button (Z - not shown) on the bottom. "

[Stu1983]

The definite buttons that nearly every game uses are START,A,B,R,Z I only remember a couple of games that used the DPad and L button, most games use the 4 C buttons for something but quite often it's just for controlling the camera so it's not important but sometimes it cyles through your inventory or something, generally it you keep 1 from each axis you'll be fine, so keep either C DOWN and C LEFT or C UP and C RIGHT

Stu