Believe it or not, I've been experimenting with finding the correct analog controls to play Arkanoid for a year now and it's still virtually impossible no matter what I change it to, it just doesn't respond quick enought to catch the ball when it zooms accross the screen. I mean, just look at the scores on MARP?. The only player that is doing something that no one else can figure out is German Krol. I find it hard to believe he can score 700k+ with a mouse unless the sensitivity is perfect. Hell, I even purchased a Twisty Grip spinner and couldn't get the darn thing to work either. Otherwise I would have had scores for all the Arkanoids well over 1.2M by now. I have a record of 1,466,640 in the arcade and plan on beating it this coming Twin Galaxies Masters tournament I'm attending in Weirs Beach. I will be facing my competitor who has claimed 1,582,000 he did just a few weeks ago. We'll see what happens.

Regards, Steve Krogman ~ MAME Arkanoid: Still can't break 200k... :( ~

-- stephen krogman (skrogman@bellsouth.net), May 23, 2000

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I fully agree with you Steve.. I can4t even score higher than 100k in any on the arkanoids... Or breakout games.. I have scored over 1mil on the arcade version but hell it is inpossible to do it on mame :(

I have the same problems with starwars at this very moment.. I could esily double or tripple the marp scores on starwars with a real arcade joy but with a mouse.. hell no..

Is it not possible to buy the arcade controls of arkanoid and in some way conect them to the PC?? If that is possible i will to that cause I can easily get a set of controls to Arkanoid but have no idea if it is possible to conect it to the PC..

Regards

QRS

-- QRS (qrs@telia.com), May 23, 2000.

Hey, Steve, where did you purchase a twisty spinner? i've been looking for a good one of those (i.e. not a steering wheel kind that doesn't keep spinning) but i haven't been able to find one. i'm missing play tron the origonal way way!

-- Chad (churritz@cts.com), May 24, 2000.