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Got a Wingman Warrior that I want to hack only for the spinner
bobotech:
Any suggestions? All I want to use is the spinner. I got the stick for 2 bux at goodwill and the spinner has a nice feel to it, spins well even after you let go, has a flywheel I suppose.
The optical board is just a board with traces leading to a 5 pin plug so it will be easy enough to hopefully mod a ball usb mouse to, has anyone done that before?
And is it possible to remove the spinner from the joystick? I have no idea how to remove it otherwise I will just cut off as much as plastic as possible and somehow just mount it to a board so I can play tempest. It isn't really for cab, just for me to play a few games like tempest on my laptop.
bobotech:
This is the joystick:
bkenobi:
If you can get the joystick to recognize in MAME, you could just use it as is.
Necro:
Does that thing freespin? (meaning, can you keep spinning it around over and over and over)?
bobotech:
--- Quote from: Necro on May 07, 2011, 07:12:07 pm ---Does that thing freespin? (meaning, can you keep spinning it around over and over and over)?
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Yes. This is an old crappy gameport/serial port game controller. I assume the serial port is for the optical encoder on the spinner and the gameport is obviously for the joystick side.
I don't really care about the joystick, I just want to make use of the spinner for mame games. I am needing a ball mouse that is USB, i don't want to deal with PS2 or serial on a modern computer.