Is there a better way to play Tempest on MAME?

Post by **UBERTRON777** » Sat Aug 22, 2009 1:38 pm

I really want to play Tempest because I never have before and it looks like my kind of game, yet I do not own an arcade machine and I'm finding it very difficult to play in MAME. Obviously, my keyboard does not have analog control so whenever I move my ship it skips tracks. I can't really map the control onto my mouse either. Is there a way to play this more accurately without having to go to the arcade?

Post by **Hatta** » Sat Aug 22, 2009 2:11 pm

You need a spinner. If you're handy, you can hack one together from a VCR and an old mouse. Or you can buy one, but they're pretty pricey these days.

Post by **Anapan** » Sat Aug 22, 2009 6:08 pm

I've been planning to buy this one for a while now, but like Hatta said, pretty expensive for what I'd be using it for.
http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/powermate/

Post by **Erik_Twice** » Sun Aug 23, 2009 5:54 pm

Build yourself a spinner, it's easy and commercial spinners are so expensive they are not worth it.

I play in making 4 for Warlords and such but one for Tempest is a must.

Post by **Breetai** » Sun Aug 23, 2009 8:36 pm

There's a version of Tempest 2000 on the PC. It's a port of the Jaguar game as far as I know, and it's a hell of a lot of fun. Works fine with a keyboard. I played the demo to death in 1996, but I never did get the full version.

Website · Post by **Hobie-wan** » Sun Aug 23, 2009 9:07 pm

Breetai wrote:There's a version of Tempest 2000 on the PC. It's a port of the Jaguar game as far as I know, and it's a hell of a lot of fun. Works fine with a keyboard. I played the demo to death in 1996, but I never did get the full version.

Also for Saturn as Tempest 2000 and Tempest X3 for Playstation which apparently supports the NegCon which would probably be pretty cool.

Post by **noiseredux** » Thu Jul 15, 2010 11:05 am

does anyone know if there is/was a Spinner available for NES, SNES, PS1, PS2 or GCN?

Post by **Limewater** » Thu Jul 15, 2010 11:27 am

You could also try tracking down the original Microsoft Arcade.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Arcade

It has a pretty decent Tempest port that plays a lot like the original and works great with the mouse.

Post by **dsheinem** » Thu Jul 15, 2010 11:33 am

This reminds me that I wanted to hack together or buy a Jag and/or PS1 rotary controller before the Tempest TR in December. Anyone have one for sale?

Post by **noiseredux** » Thu Jul 15, 2010 11:36 am

noiseredux wrote:does anyone know if there is/was a Spinner available for NES, SNES, PS1, PS2 or GCN?

dsheinem wrote:This reminds me that I wanted to hack together or buy a Jag and/or PS1 rotary controller before the Tempest TR in December. Anyone have one for sale?

so I guess you're saying there's a PS1 Spinner then?

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