Marathon Gravis Gamepad

File	marathon-gravis-gamepad.hqx
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Category	Combat/Strategy

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I just bought the Gravis GamePad specifically to play Marathon. Well, needless to say I was a little disappointed. First off, Gravis doesn't incorporate a Marathon setting in their package - but I shouldn't complain, Marathon officially was released quite recently. However, I spent 30 minutes just trying to configure the Gravis GamePad for this excellent adventure. The problem is that the keyboard works very well with Marathon. If you're running, you can turn corners and keep running. Any default-type configuration for the GamePad doesn't work very well because the cursor pad works single-mode. This means you can move forward, OR you can turn. You can't move forward AND turn at the same time. The crazy thing is that the buttons permit multiple keystrokes, but the cursor pad doesn't. Eventually I figured it out. To be able to run and perform other functions at the same time, the move-forward command must be configured from a button, not a cursor control. All other movements are okay, though backing up and turning at the same time doesn't work in this configuration. I decided it was more important to use the remaining buttons for other functions. Besides, I didn't back up and turn often anyway.