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Post by KnightWarrior on May 30, 2012 21:03:24 GMT
I'm talking about Mick & Mack as the Global Gladiators and other games that has reverse controls..I know
Disney's The Jungle Book
Battlemaniacs
But they both have Control Config, So you could set Fire 1 Jump 2
But on Mick & Mack as the Global Gladiators only Jump 1 Fire 2
Why did Virgin program the game like that??
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Post by playgeneration on May 30, 2012 22:06:39 GMT
Since these games were worked on by small teams of a few people, unlike today's games where there's hundreds of people involved, its probably just because the guy coding the game liked the buttons set that way. Also the jump/fire standard button layout wasn't always a standard, it may seem like the obvious set up now, but it may not have even occurred to be the preferred option at the time, platforming games were still a fairly new thing.
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Post by gallos_11 on May 31, 2012 8:25:53 GMT
I think a reversing adaptor on the controller port can be "easily" created and have the buttons you want...
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Post by cooljerk on Jun 1, 2012 18:20:15 GMT
indeed it can. I have made several adapters for a variety of reasons. What I do, is I buy a spare db-9 extension cable from ebay, and just snip wires internally to swap them around.
I have an Amiga 1200, and I like to use SMS controllers on it. Some games support 2 buttons, but quite a few only support 1, and thus map jump to the up button. Since I have a spare button sitting on my controller unused, I swapped the wire for the pin from button 2 to the wire for the pin for up on one of the extension cables. That way, if I plug the SMS controller into the extender, and I can map up to button 2.
I also have an MSX, which supports 2 buttons, but button 2 is on a different pin compared to the classic Sega/Amiga/Atari setup (it's on the same pin that the ground is on in the sega setup). So I have 2 extension cables with the pin for ground and button 2 swapped, so I can use SMS controllers on my MSX.
Making an extension cable to swap buttons 1 and 2 would be a snap. You just open up the actual cable portion of the extender, snip the 2 button wires, and swap them. Easy and simple, with no soldering necessary (although I do).
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