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Inspired by a recent post from Jim Blimey, I had a look at Battlezone on the ZX Spectrum. The original, 1980, arcade Atari cabinet had a viewfinder and classic tank controls - two joysticks controlling independent tyre tracks. The ZX Spectrum benefits from its relatively fast CPU and wireframe resolution and plays well. The OP wondered how the ZA Spectrum version would play with twin sticks rather than a clunky keyboard layout, so I thought I'd try it.

Firing up the MISTer, I booted the game. My MISTer Speccy is setup fairly default and requires little tweaking from game to game. I had a go with the keyboard to make sure everything was working, then selected "Button/Key Remap for Game" from the System menu and mapped each stick's vertical axis (Up/Down) on my twin-stick PS2 controller to the four direction keys on the keyboard. Make sure you have Kempston joystick selected and it's off to the races!

And it's great! The keyboard layout is effective but a twin stick controller makes more sense to my brain and makes the game more fun as you maneuver nimbly around the battlefield.

It's not something that would have been possible on original hardware but is a nice quality of life benefit of emulation.
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