[HN Gopher] My quest to re-create Street Fighter's long-lost pne... ___________________________________________________________________ My quest to re-create Street Fighter's long-lost pneumatic controls Author : zdw Score : 90 points Date : 2023-03-30 18:13 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (arstechnica.com) (TXT) w3m dump (arstechnica.com) | Alan_Dillman wrote: | It sounds like the author is part of a wonderful community. | mewse-hn wrote: | Excellent. I have an original mortal kombat cabinet I'm | restoring, I can't imagine delving into an esoteric project like | this. | slowhadoken wrote: | The game SNK vs. Capcom: The Match of the Millennium used a | similar system because the Neo Geo Pocket only had two buttons. | butz wrote: | You should add "kick" sensors to the bottom of the cabinet for | full immersion. | throwaway049 wrote: | Viz magazine had a fictitious game where kicking was the main | input | https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c9/4e/71/c94e71498c3a57569531... | leoc wrote: | The much discussed "motion inputs" | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WhbSNP_zF4 which came from SF1-- | the stick movements for special moves, like the fireball's | quarter-circle-forward, the Dragon Punch's Z and so on--were | surely meant to be of a piece with the pneumatic buttons, all | part of an input scheme to make the player feel that (s)he's | making or at least mimicking the physical efforts of his/her | character. (Making the special moves so hard to get right in SF1 | probably tended to defeat that purpose, but oh well.) | dfxm12 wrote: | There's so much documentation about specific games thanks to the | work of the MAME developers and manuals uploaded to KLOV. There's | also tons of hackers making reproduction parts or even new | products to help keep your home arcade in good shape. I wouldn't | have any doubts that where there's a will to get some old arcade | hardware working, there's most certainly a way. | snarfy wrote: | I remember playing this version in the arcade at Golf & Stuff aka | Castles & Coasters in Phoenix AZ. | | The arcade attendants would yell at you for 'hitting the game'. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-03-31 23:00 UTC)