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Game supporting multiple buttons
« on: May 09, 2013, 12:26:37 AM »
I'm in the process of rewiring a Sega Mega Drive controller to use with my Amiga. As it is now, I can use button B and C on the controller (Button 1 and Button 2 on the Amiga) without further modifications. I'm thinking of rewiring so C is Up. Good for games with jumping. I prefer to have the jump button on the right side of the fire button (I'm an old NES player!). This would be easiest but I would loose one button.

That's the background, now for the question. Most game as far as I can remember only supported one joystick button and Up was commonly used for jumping in platform games. Did any game support multiple buttons, and if so, which games?
 

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Re: Game supporting multiple buttons
« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2013, 12:13:17 AM »
thanks for the help! That was a fair number of games supporting two buttons. I did rewire the  controller yesterday so A=Up, B=Buttion 1 and C=Button 2 and tried to  play Turrican 2. It's really hard jumping on the 'wrong' button so I  started using up instead. Still hard. I guess the quality of the  controller didn't help the experience (very cheap stuff).

I have bought two original Mega Drive controller but I will leave them  unmodified. But I will make an adapted using an AVR (ATtiny2313 seems ok  for the task) and then I can read all the buttons and map it however I  want. And maybe add a switch or two to select modes. Hopefully this solution will be much better for the playing experience.