[HN Gopher] My quest to re-create Street Fighter's long-lost pne...
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       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)
        
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 (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'.
        
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