Looking for a specific Amiga joystick..

[ikaruga]

Hi,

I'm willing to buy an Amiga joystick much like Competition Pro or Zipstick. I use at the moment a Sega Megadrive/Genesis joyspad but it's weared out and dying.

The problem is that the joystick must has:
- Autofire... for the likes of Xenon 2 Megablast

- Two Buttons... so you don't need to stretch out to punch the spacebar in Turrican II, for example

- Be a joystick, not a joypad.. so you can perform the circle move to launch the bombs in Battlesquadron - it's very tricky to do in my Megadrive joypad

Any model fits these specs?

[ikaruga]

Thanks for the answers!

I wonder what joystick type the Amiga games were written for - I mean, there should be some joystick model that is probably the standard type...

I always tought of something like the Competition Pro, perhaps because it's the more or less like the one that appears in one of the Battle Squadron screens.

All my mates (who naturally are either console players or Windows/PC players) complain about the fact that pratically all sidescrolling Amiga games use 'stick Forward to jump, instead of a button for it (like in any console game). This ruins completely the gameplay for them.

I am more or less used to it because I had an Atari 2600 joystick in the A500 days...

[ikaruga]

Indeed, many Amiga games were ruined by lack of a joystick standard.

Anyone who played Battle Squadron on the Sega Genesis (Megadrive) could tell how handy was the second fire button to release the fire bombs, instead of the hand-stunt you have to do in the Amiga version.

I am not sure, but I thought the Amiga CD32 had 2-buttons in its controller. It's amazing to see that Project-X CD32, a brilliant game IMHO, was also jeopardized by the fact the "shake the 'stick to select weapon" was left there (second button works too, but many times by accident the player ends selecting wrong weapon by shaking the 'stick, swapping a plasma weapon expanded 6 times, by a basic unexpanded gun in the middle of a heavy attack wave)...

Anyway, I think I found the right joystick:
http://www.gamersgraveyard.com/repository/nes/peripherals/controllers.html

Well, there's a couple suitable models there. NES Advantage for instance. I hope they work on the Amiga (probably yes, the conector is the same).

[ikaruga]

brianb: the games I have here that support two buttons are Project-X and Turrican 2. I am not sure but I think Lion King supported it too, making it equal to the SNES in gameplay (and everything else afaik).

hektic: hmm that Cheetah looks ok, I think I may buy it because of its low price.

mdv2000: I think I will pass on the Sega joysticks, some may need a hack to work on the Amiga (afaik the gamepad of the Sega Megadrive I worked on the Amiga straight from the box, the one from Megadrive II or III didn't).

For a large arcade style control like these, I would prefer to get the Quickshot Maverick as Ruud suggested, it is a NES joystick and so it is supposed to be guaranteed to work on Amiga.

Cammy: So is WHDload people actually fixing other flaws in Amiga games rather than them being floppy disk-only ? Whoaa!!  Have to check it closer!