Old games made for machines with 4-way joysticks (PAC-MAN, Frogger, Burger Time) just do not work well with 8-way joysticks. For example, if you're going diagonal up and to the right, the game doesn't know if you mean up or right. This is actually a physical problem. Maybe someone has figured out a software patch to guess based on the first position you hit on an 8-way joystick, but I haven't seen it.
I realized I was missing out on these great old games by not having 4-ways so I managed to squeeze them onto the case after the original build. I simply added two inexpensive 4 ways (the red and blue knobs) wired up to the same controls as the P1 and P2 8 way joysticks. PAC-MAN hasn't played this good since the original!
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