Space Shuttle Docking

[Ridenmy65]

I am ashamed to say that I have had space shuttle sitting in my collection for about 5 months now and I have not played it once.

 

I feel like I have betrayed my fellow Atari astronauts!!

 

Angelo

[StanJr]

My pitch is set at 28, just like the manual says, but what is this stuff about this yaw? How do I set that and when?

 

I really want to play this game...

[Nukey Shay]

Yaw is set by moving the stick left or right with the OCR engines on (up/down sets pitch). You should only really need to change Yaw when performing the deorbit burn...it should already be 0 after you are in orbit. You can also use Yaw to correct massive Y-axis differences, but that takes a bit of practice.

 

One question about your pitch...is the sign correct (positive / negative)?

Pitch -028 / Yaw 000 when docking, Pitch -004 / Yaw -128 when doing deorbit burn, Pitch +024 / Yaw 000 for re-entry.

[StanJr]

Ladies and gentlemen, we have found the problem. Coupling what Nukey says with Cupcakus video, I now see my error. I've been following the instructions which tell me to set my pitch to "28" not "-28" I shall try again.

 

thanks everyone!

 

Shuttle Stan

[Nukey Shay]

HORRAY!!!

[Cupcakus]

Ladies and gentlemen, we have found the problem.  Coupling what Nukey says with Cupcakus video, I now see my error.  I've been following the instructions which tell me to set my pitch to "28" not "-28"  I shall try again.

 

thanks everyone!

 

Shuttle Stan

 

Yeah I could have sworn I demonstrated proper pitch settings for docking in that vid :-) Good luck stan!