Forum Overview :: Gamerasutra :: Gyruss and Time Pilot modded to use a spinner in MAME

[quote name="Ice Cream Jonsey"][youtube id=10fPGXbAjRM] [quote name="Wikipedia"]According to his account, Yoshiki Okamoto's proposal for Time Pilot was initially rejected by his boss at Konami, who assigned Okamoto to work on a driving game instead. Okamoto secretly gave instructions to his programmer to work on his idea, while pretending to be working on a driving game in front of his boss. When Time Pilot was a success, Okamoto's boss claimed credit for Okamoto's idea.[/quote] Okamoto is cool and all (PSH!) but it was pretty unforgivable that Gyruss wasn't designed with a spinner. The video has things at a pretty crazy speed, as the spinner position is mapped directly into RAM, but it's definitely an improvement over the joystick for both games. There is a thread about the mod <a href="http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=81745.0">here</a>. In related news, are the developers of MAME still a pack of unloved, greasy, screechy nerds with absolutely no social skill that ruin retro gaming? [quote]I'm compiling mame 118 and adding this diff and hiscore diff.[/quote] You have to ADD hiscore to MAME these days? The answer is yes for the MAME devs: still losers, all. the dark and gritty...Ice Cream Jonsey![/quote]