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Re: RAM Controls
« Reply #240 on: May 19, 2017, 01:25:04 pm »
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.

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Re: RAM Controls
« Reply #241 on: May 25, 2017, 10:37:28 am »



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.

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Re: RAM Controls
« Reply #242 on: June 04, 2017, 04:39:17 am »
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.
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Re: RAM Controls
« Reply #243 on: June 04, 2017, 09:33:51 am »
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.
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Re: RAM Controls
« Reply #244 on: April 20, 2018, 09:43:08 am »
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.
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Re: RAM Controls
« Reply #245 on: February 04, 2022, 12:23:28 am »
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
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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!
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