Gyruss on paddles or driver contlr

[dwh]

Has this topic ever been brought up?Could it be done?

[Tempest]

Ooooo! Now that would be nice.

 

Tempest

[+Atari_Warlord]

The driving controller would be perfect, just like the arcade spinner.

 

It's great to have more than one game that uses these controllers. Thanks to Thomas, for fixing Sprintmaster.

[davidbrit2]

Actually, I don't think any arcade version of Gyruss was made with a spinner control. Every one I've seen uses a joystick, and MAME doesn't give any hints that a dial can be used for input. Of course, it would still be pretty neat to try it with a spinner, it would just be interesting to see how well it translates.

[Atari-Jess]

KEEP ON ROCKIN IN THE FREE WORLD!!

[King Asmo]

Gyruss did have an 8 way joystick, not a spinner (I have to admit, I looked it up.. I haven't played the arcade version since '86 or so). Check:

 

http://www.klov.com/G/Gyruss.html

 

It would be cool with a spinner. Well, it would probably just make it even more like Tempest than it already is.

 

KA

[Atari-Jess]

i do love gyruss though what a fun game!

[davidbrit2]

With a spinner it would basically be Tempest meets Galaga. . . not that that's a bad thing, mind you.

[NE146]

Gyruss is controlled with a JOYSTICK in the arcade version and never a spinner.

 

However, having said that, playing the 2600 version with a driving controller of course would be an interesting/fun little hack.

[Paul Slocum]

The driving controller isn't a high resolution controller. So the ship's movement resolution would have to be descreased or you'd have to completely rotate the controller 4 times (I think) to get all the way around the circle. Halving the number of possible ship positions might achieve a good balance, though.

 

-Paul

[Tempest]

Gyruss was controlled witih a Joystick that was tilted outward and could move only in a circle. It was a strange design that worked quite well, and no home version has been able to reproduce it.

 

Tempest

[+Atari_Warlord]

Well, apparently my memory is completely wrong about the rotary controller. I'll have to swing by the old Putt Putt arcade to see if they still have the unit I used to play.

[Paul Slocum]

Is it like the joystick for 720?

 

-Paul

[Tempest]

Well I'll be... I looked up Gyruss and I guess it normally came with a standard joystick. I guess the one I saw was someo kind of special conversion or hack since it used a joystick that looked very similar to 720's. Weird! I'm going to have to go back to that arcade and look now.

 

Tempest

[NE146]

Is it like the joystick for 720?

 

No. Gyruss is and always has been controlled by your standard 8 directional joystick. It works great for the game actually and controls really well.

 

Any other configuration spotted at any arcade was probably a hack or some kind of 'locally customized' controls.

[Tempest]

Actually this thing worked really well, I had no trouble turning the corners like I normally do. They should have used it more often.

 

Tempest

[Rob Mitchell]

John Dondzila did a Gyruss clone for the Vectrex ... called Wormhole. It uses the "compass" directional control using the joystick.

 

Now Chris Tumber has come out with a Tempest clone for the Vectrex .. called Tsunami which can use the joystick for L/R control, joystick for "compass" control, or the Driving Controller for spinner control. 3 different ways of control!

 

I mentioned to Thomas about the possibility of hacking Beamrider to use the driving controller.

 

Rob Mitchell, Atlanta, GA

(driving controller user since 1977)

[gozar]

Gyruss was controlled witih a Joystick that was tilted outward and could move only in a circle. It was a strange design that worked quite well, and no home version has been able to reproduce it.

 

Tempest

 

 

Necrobump!

 

The control scheme for Gyruss came up in IRC, where the discussion was about a joystick for Gyruss, but I remember the exact same control scheme that Tempest mentions. Unfortunately, I can't find any information about this. Has anyone else see this control scheme for Gyruss?

[gozar]

Ok, it's called a Monroe joystick.

 

"They have a circular restrictor, and a spherical pivot, so it flows very smoothly in a circle." - Re: Gyruss --- Joystick or Dial?

 

In all these years I assumed it was a spinner of some sort!