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Ooops, forgto to ask my question in the prevous post. I'll just repost here.
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It looks like I'm going to have a controller problem with centipede. I tried playing it last night at home and there is not enough room on my mouse pad to get good control, I end up pausing every 3 seconds to get my mouse back near the center of the pad. I tried it at work (win32 version as I have NT)where I have a much bigger desk, when I move quickly to the left, it moves to the right instead, wierd. It looks like I may have better control with the keyboard.

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Will it be acceptable to submit a keybord recording of centipede (if its in the tournie) instead of a mouse/trackball played recording?

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info@kaupp.cx

I would consider ALL recordings to be done on keyboard for the
tourney. At least, you prevent autofire (which is available on
certain joysticks/gamepads), and not everyone has a
joystick/trackball to use. If I had to use my mouse for Centipede, I
wouldn't even be able to beat 700pts. (I AM NOT KIDDING, MY MOUSE IS
THAT BAD!)

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cparsley1@hotmail.com

Well, I stink bad at Centipede with any controller, but with my
mouse, it's really really bad. I use the keyboard too.

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How did Martin and John Rhodes play Centipede???

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A tracball with certain sensitivity settings?

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cubeman@iname.com

Mark, all I used was a Microsoft 2-button mouse on a very mundane,
regular small mousepad. My sensitivity settings are usually in the
neighborhood of 25-30%. Seems to work fine for me. The higher, more
frantic stages of the game will require greater movement accuracy
than a keyboard can give you. An example of this is my Millipede
recording where there seemed to be countless close encounters and
subtle manuevering...something that I don't think could have ever
been done with a keyboard. Hope you guys can resolve this in time for
T2 (the second MARP tourney!) in case it becomes one of the picks.

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JoustGod...errr...John Rhodes

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pinballwiz1@msn.com

I have also played a little bit with the mouse sensitivity to gain the
best control. It is still a fact that the trackball emulation is not
perfect in Mame, causing the pointer not to move or to move in the
wrong direction when you are moving the mouse too fast. When centipede
is in the tournament I recommend using version 35 beta 13, because
ever since 35 rc 1 the trackball emulation has become worse.

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cypr135@knoware.nl

Hell yes you should be able to use trackball or joystick.
If a game is originally played with trackball, of course you play it
with mouse or trackball. Isn't it allmost cheating when someone uses
keaboard in trackball game? -(answering myself) In my opinion
"original" controls seem to have best effect, so use anything you
want except autofire(you are welcome try to beat my Marble Madness
score with any controlling method you like...). I bought a trackball
for Marble and haven't regretted it a single moment-It really isn't
so expensive and I use it as a spinner also...furthermore Marble is
ten times more fun with a trackball.

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Emulation for trackball is perfect, problem is to find right analog-
settings. If sensitivity is TOO HIGH marble seems to stop or go
wrong direction, when rolling fast. You should experiment with analog
settings, changing sensitivity and that other prosentage value
(something like delta x prosentage). Normally I use final-versions
for recording, and trackball works just fine. I've noticed that later
versions analog settings look different compared to older ones, but
they work just the same. It's my lazyness,that makes me still use
M35b2 for marble-since I found right settings with that version and
don't want to experiment for few ours with later versions.

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Tommi 170 540(arcade)

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