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Raccoon Lad
12-06-2003, 01:19 AM
Ok, the WTF was just to get some attention, but I've got some Q's about the Sports Pad anyway.
1) The DP guide lists an alternate name for the Sports Pad as "The Power Ball", I've never seen it refered to as this anywhere. Has anyone ever seen it called "the Power Ball" anywhere??

2) is it just my Sports pad failing, or does it seem like no matter how fast you roll the ball in sports pad games, you still go slower than the CPU team?
digitalpress
12-06-2003, 09:27 AM
Ok, the WTF was just to get some attention, but I've got some Q's about the Sports Pad anyway.
1) The DP guide lists an alternate name for the Sports Pad as "The Power Ball", I've never seen it refered to as this anywhere. Has anyone ever seen it called "the Power Ball" anywhere??

It's referred to as "Power Ball Sports Pad" just about EVERYWHERE...

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22sega+master%22+%22power+ball%22

... but I can't honestly say that I've SEEN it listed that way on the Sega product itself. Maybe it's a non-US thing.


2) is it just my Sports pad failing, or does it seem like no matter how fast you roll the ball in sports pad games, you still go slower than the CPU team?

"Jiggle" the ball forward. Spinning it like a madman as you would in Golden Tee or Atari Football doesn't really help, there seems to be a maximum speed that a roll can create - but if you continually set it off in a single direction you'll see your on-screen character pick up speed. Try it!