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Joystick advice: shortest throw, natively/moddable into top fire
CpCaveman:
I agree 4 switches and a lever, its not rocket science, also it felt dirty typing/reading that, and not in a good way :-\ need to feel cleaner wish there was porn on this internet thing, you`d think someone would at least have thought of it..... oh wait....oh god noo... DAMN YOU GOOGLE!! DAMN YOU TO HELL!!! great my eyesights the next thing to go... :censored:
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--- Quote from: CpCaveman on March 28, 2013, 04:12:44 pm ---I agree 4 switches and a lever, its not rocket science
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True, yet we're still relying on flawed, archaic designs and 99% of the commercial-grade joysticks out there are sloppy and lackluster (albeit cheap and most likely easy to fix in the event of hardware failure). Any 5 $ keyboard beats the crap out of even the most expensive joystick in terms of sheer performances (they're just harder to get accustomed to because, depending on the genre, you might've grown up as a gamer playing with joysticks in the arcades).
Anyway, I took the leaf microwitches off of my JLJ (cause they're noisy and just add unnecessary past-activation travel) and I'm modding it in order to allow the actuator (big metal metal disk at the bottom) to close a circuit upon touching a bunch of adjustable metal plates placed around it, that way the engage and the throw distance will collimate and I'll have a joystick that is quicker than anything else on the market right now.
I might post some pics whenever I get around completing it if you guys are interested.
Jumpman64:
Just want to say that the Tac2 reference is great -- that was my GO TO joystick in my C64 gaming era. You could pull off such quick jumping maneuvers in Jumpman with that thing. Just a really great joystick.
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This is what I've come up with; it's cheap, adjustable, took me just a few hours of fiddling around and works wonders:
Before (click here to see the pic)
After:
screw microswitches (literally haha) ;)
Drnick:
Now that is quite literally Build Your Own Arcade Control :applaud: :applaud: :applaud: :applaud: :applaud:
And yep those Tac2's are hard to beat. I almost feel sad about getting rid of most of my retro stuff. Were you not able to find one you could mod or at least tear down to see why it worked so well?
Ahh, damn, just watched the video and that is what you have done anyway I always wondered why those sticks didn't break like the Clicky versions. :laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2: