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Ram Controls Yoke - The circle is complete!
RobotronNut:
--- Quote from: Paul Olson on February 10, 2010, 01:28:41 pm ---Road Blasters yoke is optical. I wonder how well this yoke will work for that game.
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i looked into this several yrs ago. at that time, RB on a SW yoke worked, but not perfectly. does anyone know if mame handles it better nowadays?
if you go to www.marksarcade.com and click on the "return of the jedi" link, you'll see one way of handling this - take the optical wheel and board from an original RB yoke and add it to your SW yoke. this can be done without disturbing anything inside the SW yoke, so you still have the analog output of the SW yoke, and you have additional wires carrying the digital signal from the RB optical board. i actually bought a trashed RB yoke that had an intact optical system, in anticipation of doing this some day.
Necro:
Ok, we've now accounted for the one in the picture that was posted before.
Once a second person has received one, we know for certain that the prototype wasn't shipped to quiet the complaints :).
Havok:
If you look closely, you'll see that mine is different than the proto picture posted on Dave's blog.
Whomever guesses what the difference is gets an Internet cookie!
Donkey_Kong:
The big scratch on the right side control.
Bender:
I've tried to keep out of this but....
Things we know:
Dave has not made good decisions about pre-orders and time estimates
the most disturbing to me is the latest lack of communication
But we also know
Dave is an asset to the comunity and builds fantastic products
The guy is doing this as a hobby (yes he wants to break even or make a little profit)
He is not a thief (he has been in business for 5 years and I have not herd of one person not eventually getting the product or a refund)
Everyone will eventually get there yoke or there money
having done a couple little thing like this I know I am much more concerned with making the product perfect, and am not so good at the "Business" end of things, So I think I have a little more patience with Dave than most
Having said all that I'm not ordering mine till all the pre-orders are filled ;)