Query With Williams Defender

[Chorlton]

Ive had a go on defender today (been trying to get Mikie to work but think this may be due to a bad rom issue)

Anyway with defender I thought you could turn your ship around? I'm pretty sure on the old computer versions (even going back to the Electron) this was possible.

A button maps to fire
B button maps to thrust
select maps to bomb

Up and down do exactly as they say but left/right nothing.

Is this just a limitation due to number of keys available? I dont know how you turned round on the original cabinet (Im not that old)

Cheers for any help.

 

[KickinWing]

left and right should turn the ship around, it's always been that way, but have not tried this on the GP32 though.

 

[alyinsanfran]

You may prefer to run "Williams Arcades Greatest Hits" on Genesis thru DrMD. Defender runs with 4-way steering, works quite well.
For some reason though, after you start a game it gives you 5 or so extra men for no reason.
So it's not the purist's choice, but it's worth looking into. Also has Joust which runs great.

 

[ralp99]

in the arcade version of defender, there was a button to change the direction your ship was facing. left and right would only push it left or right through space.

 

[alyinsanfran]

There was a reverse button and an up/down joystick or up/down buttons. Thrust button caused forward motion in the direction the ship was pointing. Reverse would do a 180 turn.
On the GP I find it easier to use 4-way joystick in the Genesis port, as otherwise there's just too many buttons for it to be workeable.

 

[Chorlton]

Sounds like the GP is one button too short to properly play this.

Never mind, Joust runs great though through mame

 

[Franxis]

Sounds like the GP is one button too short to properly play this.

Never mind, Joust runs great though through mame

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Yes it was a problem with Defender.... The button was R (the same to change screen orientation). I have changed to START button... It will run ok for the MAME GP32 1.3 release (to be released tomorrow).