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INFO: How to play Power Drift in FBAlpha
dink:
If you tried the game Power Drift, and noticed something isn't quite right with the steering - try this quick tip and you'll be enjoying a game in no time :)
The game requires a steering preset to properly control your vehicle, here's how to do it:
Load up Power Drift, then go to Input -> Map Game Inputs or just press F5.
Towards the bottom you'll notice 3 pull-down type boxes. Pull down the first one and select "Player 1"
Pull down the middle box and select "Joystick 0", or "Keyboard" depending on what you want to use.
Pull down the 3rd box and select "Auto-Center", then click the "Use Preset" button.
Now, all you have to do is configure the buttons for Accelerate, Gear and Brake, press OK and start a game :)
This method works great using the thumbstick on either a DualShock or Xbox360-type controller.
Arcadez:
Some games just dont transfer very well from Arcade to Emulator inputs wise, Power Drift controls like sh** for me in two Emulators
now and nothing i can do to fix that :( BTW another one you may want to look at to tweak the input settings is Double Axle also
known as Power Wheels.
phozz:
Hi all, I actually registered here specifically to discuss this issue and ask for help. As a long time fan of Power Drift (I miss that rotating cabin!) I have been struggling with the steering problem for a long time.
Historically speaking, the first emulator on which Power Drift was playable was Final Burn, which released in 2000 and (as far as I understand) was the predecessor to Final Burn Alpha. Its emulation was not perfect - the screen didn't tilt when the car turned - but other than that everything worked, and most importantly keyboard controls were responsive and razor sharp. With it I have no problems completing the game, often reaching the Bonus Stage (after a #1 streak). Despite being old the emulator works well on new PCs and it's still the one I use for playing this game.
In late 2002 development on Final Burn stopped, and soon Power Drift became playable on FBA and Mame. Unfortunately though, the controls were quite simply off. No matter what I did with these emulators I felt like a drunk driver, with the virtual wheel either responding too slowly or centering too slowly (or both) to be playable. I tried tweaking many settings while carefully comparing the behavior between FB and FBA/Mame (even using the game's diagnostics), but failed to find a satisfactory setting.
Last night I tried out the current version of FBA, fba64_029742. It actually seemed better, but still not perfect. I looked at the input settings and noticed this configuration line:
input "Steering" slider 0xcb 0xcd speed 0xe00 center 10
I compared it to the setting in Final Burn v0.518:
input "Left/Right" slider 0x25 0x27 speed 0xe00 center 10
I tried to copy the values 0x25 0x27 but then the arrow keys stopped working - so I assume those are codes that determine which keys are used for steering and different values are used by the different emulators. But the speed and center parameters are the same, so.. why doesn't the slider behave the same?
Can someone with more knowledge shed some light and try to help? It's a shame that this game can't be played properly with modern emulators, and at some point Final Burn won't work on new machines any more. All that needs to be done is to compare the code responsible for the keyboard slider between FB 0.518 and the current FBA source, and make FBA behave the same as FB. (Well, at least it sounds simple...)
Gab75:
Hi phozz,
you can try with this setting (obviously combined with an analog joypad/joystick):
input "Steering" joyslider 0 0 speed 0xe00 center 10
I use a compatible dualshock joypad and this setting works fine for me... :) (for this kind of games a device with analog controls is highly recommended)
dink:
Hi phozz,
I'd like to help here, but, could you please be more specific as to what is wrong here - for example, are the arrow keys not reacting fast enough? What do you think is the difference between the slider from then and now the current version?
It might help a lot if you PM me a link to the old version of FB[a] which reacts how you want it and I'll try it and compare. If its not available on the web, upload it to http://www.sendspace.com :)
best regards,
- dink
--- Quote from: phozz on September 03, 2017, 02:53:45 PM ---Last night I tried out the current version of FBA, fba64_029742. It actually seemed better, but still not perfect. I looked at the input settings and noticed this configuration line:
input "Steering" slider 0xcb 0xcd speed 0xe00 center 10
I compared it to the setting in Final Burn v0.518:
input "Left/Right" slider 0x25 0x27 speed 0xe00 center 10
I tried to copy the values 0x25 0x27 but then the arrow keys stopped working - so I assume those are codes that determine which keys are used for steering and different values are used by the different emulators. But the speed and center parameters are the same, so.. why doesn't the slider behave the same?
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