Tron and Perfect 360's

[dhansen]

Has anyone tried Happs Perfect 360's (with the appropriate handle hack) with Tron yet?  How were your results?

After a few months off, I'm getting the mame fever again!

Doug

[Hoagie_one]

completely unrelated but i just bought tron the movie and started playin tron 2.0.  talk about spiking your coffee for some old skool video game action

[grafixmonkey]

I imagine they'd work a lot like other 8-way joysticks, just a bit more precise on where the angle divisions are.

Tron 2.0?  please do tell....   what's this?

[Hoagie_one]

http://www.tron20.net/

[dhansen]

Hey! Quit hijacking my thread!!!    

[Hoagie_one]

sorry

[telengard]

Has anyone tried Happs Perfect 360's (with the appropriate handle hack) with Tron yet?  How were your results?

After a few months off, I'm getting the mame fever again!

Doug

I have a perfect 360 joystick and once tried it with tron, it works
OK on every screen except the light cycles.  I've also tried it
with a microswitch trigger joy, and that same joystick with
leaf springs "grafted" onto it.  It seems that Tron used a diamond
shaped hole to allow restricted 8 way.  Some Tron guru can
probably elaborate more.

[CitznFish]

http://www.tron20.net/

I'm a slave for the rat.. i should see if I can get a copy..

[spidermonkey]

They do claim to be both 8 and 4-way. I'm not sure how they switch from one to the other. If its done electronicly then there may be a way to hack a switch into the wiring so that it could be switched quickly from 8 to 4 during game play but honestly I don't really know if thats possible. I'd talk to one of the Happ techs or maybe Oscar or Andy as they might know weather a toggle switch would or wouldn't interfere with the sticks internal electronics. Even if they could be made to switch modes on the fly you still have to contend with working a joystick a spinner and a fire button all at once. Unless you have a dot spinner that is.

[u_rebelscum]

They do claim to be both 8 and 4-way. I'm not sure how they switch from one to the other.

You have to open the joystick, flip the accuator, and put the stick back together to switch for 8 way to 4 way.  Oscars Controls has a review page that talks about this quite well.  Look at the (correct) picture.