RE: Laptop usb joysticks do they work on 80s games?
June 24, 2024 at 7:15 pm
(This post was last modified: June 24, 2024 at 7:25 pm by Brian37.)
(June 24, 2024 at 5:41 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(June 24, 2024 at 5:13 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Here is the deal. For months I have been Jonesing to play the 80s arcade version of Berzerk and Galaga, but I have been looking into consoles and cartridges and tv compatibility, and if I can get one game I cannot get it with this or that, and with SD cards even that is a pain in the ass to transfer it to a console. Trust me I have been doing my research for almost 3 weeks now. But I could save a shitload of money if I can buy a USB joystick and get it to work with the free online versions.
Admittedly a 90s and not an 80s game, but my Logitech USB stick works fine with Red Baron II 3D on Steam, down to the additional buttons accepting assignable functions. It also worked fine with the original 90s CD-ROM version I had before it (CD, not the joystick) went bad. The Logitech 'stick is good.
IIRC Berserk was a two-stick game, one to aim and shoot, the other to move. Does the conversion software accommodate this?
I want to be clear, I don't need to download anything or play it on a CD rom. The games are at websites and you play them on the website while you are on the websites. But every website only gives you instructions with the keyboard, it doesn't tell you if you can use a usb joystick.
Like here.....
https://www.free80sarcade.com/galaga.php
or
https://www.classicgamesarcade.com/game/...ogger.html
Again, all I want to know is if a USB joystick will bypass their keyboard instructions so I can use the joystick while playing online?
