Flightstick Options

[versapak]

Originally Posted by Desode

Ah I didn't realize that he meant just flight games. If you search around on the web there is actually a list some where that shows which games added in support for the stick. When I say supported I mean that the buttons and controls are on the stick the way they should be, I don't mean using some insane button on the stick to do something that makes it impossible to play.

You can tell a game has support if the buttons that work on a controller are different on the stick. Example : If you playing a game with a 360 controller and the right trigger is fire, then you plug in your ace edge and the A button is fire then that game has support for the stick put into it.

If you plug in your ace edge and the fire button is still on the right trigger then your just using the stick to try and play the game with a controller layout and there wasn't support added to the game for the stick.

Thats all I'm saying. You can tell when they made a seperate layout so you can use the stick and you can tell when you just get lucky and can use it.


DESODE

I'd love to see this list. I'm a bit curious what other games have added support for it.

It'd seem a bit weird to me to play anything but a flight game with it though.

[Desode]

Well I used to use flightsticks to do all my gaming back when I was young and the Commodore C64 was the best 8bit gaming out there ! LOL Damn I'm old ! I still perfere it for any kind of scrolling shooter.
Desode

[versapak]

Originally Posted by Desode

Well I used to use flightsticks to do all my gaming back when I was young and the Commodore C64 was the best 8bit gaming out there ! LOL Damn I'm old ! I still perfere it for any kind of scrolling shooter.
Desode

You used flight sticks or joysticks? They aren't necessarily the same thing.

I definitely prefer to use joysticks for games like Raiden Fighters, and many other games from back in the day, as well as with newer ones like N+ and Splosion Man.

The arcade sticks you now find pretty exclusively marketed for fighters on consoles are what were used most back in the day. Raiden Fighters specifically used that exact thing.

[Desode]

Originally Posted by versapak

You used flight sticks or joysticks? They aren't necessarily the same thing.

I definitely prefer to use joysticks for games like Raiden Fighters, and many other games from back in the day, as well as with newer ones like N+ and Splosion Man.

The arcade sticks you now find pretty exclusively marketed for fighters on consoles are what were used most back in the day. Raiden Fighters specifically used that exact thing.

I had a couple small flightsticks that I used. I would say a flightstick because the stick was molded so your whole hand could use it and the fire button was on top for your thumb. Its different then a arcade stick.

http://atariace.com/nintendo/joysticks.php

The second one down (Quickshot) is the closest, to what I'm talking about.
I had a different model of that. It was actually called Quickshot II Flight stick.
I had a world record score on Gradius with it and I even had NES magazine post my score in there.

DESODE

[versapak]

Originally Posted by Desode

I had a couple small flightsticks that I used. I would say a flightstick because the stick was molded so your whole hand could use it and the fire button was on top for your thumb. Its different then a arcade stick.

http://atariace.com/nintendo/joysticks.php

The second one down (Quickshot) is the closest, to what I'm talking about.
I had a different model of that. It was actually called Quickshot II Flight stick.
I had a world record score on Gradius with it and I even had NES magazine post my score in there.

DESODE

Yeah, that is definitely a flight stick.

Never had one for my Commodore 64. I had a ton of Atari 2600 controllers that I also used on my C64, which were definitely more akin to an arcade stick.

Especially with those simple control games of old though, there are so many options that work equally fine, and I suppose it most comes down to what you first learned on and became comfortable with.


I played most of those games like Gradius first in the arcades, and where I guess my affinity for arcade sticks with those types of games comes from my initial experiences with them, I have friends who first got those experiences on the NES that definitely prefer a d-pad.




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[Desode]

Originally Posted by versapak

Yeah, that is definitely a flight stick.

Never had one for my Commodore 64. I a ton of Atari 2600 controllers that I also used on my C64, which were definitely more akin to an arcade stick.

Especially with those simple control games of old though, there are so many options that work equally fine, and I suppose it all comes down to what you most learned on and became comfortable with.


I played most of those games like Gradius first in the arcades, and where I guess my affinity for arcade sticks and those types of games comes from my initial experiences with them, I have friends definitely prefer a d-pad.

Hey Versapak , I have been trying to get one of these
http://www.legacyengineer.com/store.html

Its a Atari usb for pc. They are just always sold out but they keep making new batches. I want one to use with some emulators. It would be great if you could use one on the 360 or the ps3 for arcade games.
DESODE

[versapak]

Originally Posted by Desode

Hey Versapak , I have been trying to get one of these
http://www.legacyengineer.com/store.html

Its a Atari usb for pc. They are just always sold out but they keep making new batches. I want one to use with some emulators. It would be great if you could use one on the 360 or the ps3 for arcade games.
DESODE

That's cool.

I wish I still had any of my old Atari stuff.

I lost it all in a cross country move waaaaay back.


I bet it wouldn't be all that hard to strip the pcb from a cheap usb pad and stick it into the internals of an atari stick.

[Zensuji]

Originally Posted by Desode

Well I used to use flightsticks to do all my gaming back when I was young and the Commodore C64 was the best 8bit gaming out there ! LOL Damn I'm old ! I still perfere it for any kind of scrolling shooter.
Desode

Me too.....Well I had a spectrum +2 and a quickshot turbo!!!! woot

like this bad boy

http://www.cbmhardware.de/misc/joystick/39.jpg