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Xiaou2:
You would never want to play Arkanoid, or pretty much any spinner game with a Rotary.

 There isnt enough resolution, let alone it being comfortable to twist extensively.

mytymaus007:

--- Quote from: gamuhar on June 04, 2012, 01:48:12 am ---
--- Quote from: mytymaus007 on June 03, 2012, 08:40:06 am ---Does anyone use these (useless) Happ (Optical) rotary sticks for anything!

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You should be able to play all those games that use mechanical rotary with it, but not the other way around as you'd loose precision, plus all the spinner games like Arkanoid and Tempest. Is your comment just about the handle itself, not comfortable enough, slippery, or something like that?

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its about the grip and how and if anybody uses the optical sticks and how they work with the rotary games! I have the mechanical ones now but would liketo have a different grip on them
gamuhar:

--- Quote from: mytymaus007 on June 04, 2012, 08:10:35 am ---its about the grip and how and if anybody uses the optical sticks and how they work with the rotary games! I have the mechanical ones now but would liketo have a different grip on them

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I have home-made one, but any optical rotary should work just fine for 12-position mechanical rotary games. You can see that yourself, more or less, by trying it with your mouse. You would have the same speed and precision in the player movement, so you should be able to score the same. The rest is about personal preferences, so I'm afraid you will never truly know unless you actually try it out yourself.
Xiaou2:

--- Quote ---optical rotary should work just fine for 12-position mechanical rotary games
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 Again, work and play well... are very different.   The bump-stops on the mechanical rotary will match the actual players
on-screen character exactly.  Without that stop, it makes it a little more difficult to both know where your player is
facing... and more critical:  to accidentally shoot past the intended direction you wished to stop at.

gamuhar:

--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on June 04, 2012, 10:49:12 am --- Again, work and play well... are very different.   The bump-stops on the mechanical rotary will match the actual players
on-screen character exactly.  Without that stop, it makes it a little more difficult to both know where your player is
facing... and more critical:  to accidentally shoot past the intended direction you wished to stop at.

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I don't think bum-stops will help you be more precise or score more, it seems like a minor thing human adaptive system can compensate and learn to do without in probably less than 5 minutes.

No one should go and replace their mechanical rotary with optical, but if you can put only one joystick on a cabinet then optical rotary will make the most of the games playable, that's all I am saying. Sure there are compromises and trade offs, but that's about personal preferences and for everyone to figure out for themselves.
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