RAM Controls

[1500points]

I had one of those yoke interfaces that I got for $75 from a KLOV member via PM years back.
Got a cab all set up with a real yoke....and MAME was a huge let down in how it played.  Really squirrely.
Sold it all on ebay.  which left me with the impression that Star Wars requires the real deal to be enjoyable.

[ChadTower]

All that said, I understand why people are still so tempted to fall for these scams.  I have quite a few of those parts and they are really, really good parts.  I don't buy for one minute that the guy actually manufactured them.  He had to have found a cache of NOS parts somewhere.  The Major Havoc roller, for instance, is awesome.  As long as people want those Atari vector era parts these scams are going to keep coming back.

[Mr. Peabody]

I had one of those yoke interfaces that I got for $75 from a KLOV member via PM years back.
Got a cab all set up with a real yoke....and MAME was a huge let down in how it played.  Really squirrely.
Sold it all on ebay.  which left me with the impression that Star Wars requires the real deal to be enjoyable.

It requires calibrating. http://www.aaarpinball.com/ASW/ASW.htm Probably every game you use a yoke for needs it.

[1500points]

I had one of those yoke interfaces that I got for $75 from a KLOV member via PM years back.
Got a cab all set up with a real yoke....and MAME was a huge let down in how it played.  Really squirrely.
Sold it all on ebay.  which left me with the impression that Star Wars requires the real deal to be enjoyable.

It requires calibrating. http://www.aaarpinball.com/ASW/ASW.htm Probably every game you use a yoke for needs it.

Yah i went thru that from the manual when I refurbed the yoke and installed new pots and gears.

Doesn't fix the crappy gameplay emulation of MAME though.

UPDATE Oct-  The Ultimarc A-Pac will work as an alternative.  The Star Wars yoke pots are recognized by the A-Pac as the Joystick X and Y Axis.  You'll need to build a proper connector to plug n play with the yoke.

[FrizzleFried]

FWIW this piece of work has re-surfaced on KLOV as "Level99" ... selling harnesses and other various RAM parts.  Based out of Rancho Cucamonga.  KLOV has all the details.

[bobbyb13]

FWIW this piece of work has re-surfaced on KLOV as "Level99" ... selling harnesses and other various RAM parts.  Based out of Rancho Cucamonga.  KLOV has all the details.

This thread deserves to live in the forefront for noobs for all eternity...

And also on Etsy and ebay apparently too.

I spent 4 years trying to assemble parts to build a real Paperboy yoke while avoiding getting parts from this guy, who took a lotmof money from people and never shipped what they paid for.

I finally got almost all of the parts (all from other places) but I learned to be wary of the names...

AlexAlexanderLucas
Myepicgaragesale
arcadegametech

The last claims he just bought this stuff from Travis unwittingly and is reselling it, but that has been a standard ploy with that guy all along, and either way it is largely other people's parts then anyway, so hard to believe at this point.

Just keeping the hate alive!
 

[bobbyb13]

I REALLY do hope that everyone who has been scammed by this piece of trash sees this.
Please spread the word because maybe he will finally collect his karma.

https://www.madisoncountysheriffal.org/roster_view.php?booking_num=24JI02774

Anyone who has been wronged really should contact the DA there.
He may finally have moved to the wrong state for his shenanigans.

[HaRuMaN]

^ link doesn't work.

[BadMouth]

Eh, looks like it's not there anymore.  A google search shows he was booked under Adam David Judd.
Mug shot still shows in search, but the page it was on is gone.

[bobbyb13]

This article is still up at least.

https://www.waff.com/2024/08/29/madison-co-man-accused-scamming-minnesota-company-out-40000/?outputType=amp

[PL1]

In case that link goes down too, the article is on archive.org.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240830021008/https://www.waff.com/2024/08/29/madison-co-man-accused-scamming-minnesota-company-out-40000/?outputType=amp

The video embedded in the article on archive.org doesn't work so here's the video and a link to that video's YouTube page on archive.org. (Just added it so it may take a few days before playback works there.)

https://web.archive.org/web/20240903113840/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nBzvNtPSO0




Scott