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Got a Wingman Warrior that I want to hack only for the spinner

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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)?

--- End quote ---

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.

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