Repeatedly hitting the jump button while hammering stuff

[dollopuss]

Y tho? 

[Weehawk]

Y tho? 

It reduces capacitance between the contacts in the button mechanism by dissipating any static charge that would otherwise build up during the inactivity. This reduces the latency in the charge flow when the button is depressed for the first time after the hammer is expired, allowing the player to make his first jump afterwards with no lag.

[VON]

Players do it to preempt the scenario where the hammer expires just prior to smashing the barrel directly in front of Jump Man.

It is, in my opinion, a bad habit.

[YesAffinity]

Potentially, more inputs being triggered means more things the cpu has to process, and less RNG craziness.  It would probably be necessary to press the button at >4mhz to even potentially have an influence, but still an interesting theory and reason for doing it.

I personally start mashing right before the hammer expires, if there's a possibility of colliding with a barrel, but see that others do it religiously from the moment the hammer starts, and was also curious, aside from my half-baked theory above.

[QAOP Spaceman]

  I fink the ONG gives less free hundreds on the blues

[gstrain]

Potentially, more inputs being triggered means more things the cpu has to process, and less RNG craziness.  It would probably be necessary to press the button at >4mhz to even potentially have an influence, but still an interesting theory and reason for doing it.

Maybe it causes Arcade PCBs to draw partial frames like MAME?  We should probably test with every different mashing frequency to find out.

-KGTM

[TheSunshineFund]

We should probably test with every different mashing frequency to find out.

From Hector down to  frequency

[YesAffinity]

Potentially, more inputs being triggered means more things the cpu has to process, and less RNG craziness.  It would probably be necessary to press the button at >4mhz to even potentially have an influence, but still an interesting theory and reason for doing it.

Maybe it causes Arcade PCBs to draw partial frames like MAME?  We should probably test with every different mashing frequency to find out.

-KGTM