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Interest Check: Top Fire Joysticks
ark_ader:
Maybe for a Leisure Suit Larry Bartop. ;D
BadMouth:
Someday I'd like to experiment with designs that place a button or trigger on the bottom front side of the balltop or top of the shaft.
It would be nice to have a design that goes unnoticed when playing normal games, but works well enough to play games like assault.
edekoning:
--- Quote from: BadMouth on February 06, 2014, 09:10:50 am ---Someday I'd like to experiment with designs that place a button or trigger on the bottom front side of the balltop or top of the shaft.
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The problem with that is that a regular joystick shaft is free rotating, meaning the front does not have to stay the front. I believe trigger sticks do stay in the same orientation.
clok:
Started thinking as a person born in the 60's and hitting arcades in my youth. There where not many games with Top fire joysticks. I can barely remember any. Ninja Gaiden, and that was a conversion, i have seen it with a top fire and just an extra button (in this case the top fire worked excellent for the hand grab, but it was a bat stick with a tiny button on top). Games like Battlezone and Red baron.. what am i missing, I know there are many more.. but .. I would be interested in a bat with a button on top.. mY 4 player would be rocking with a 2nd and 4th player with top fires.. battlezone! or basically any tank game. Not a fan of ball tops.. but must admit i cant see the dislike for the one proposed, looks clean and nice to me, even with the button lip. I spose its just like any other "looks" thing we all like different things.
armi0024:
I am happy to help support anyone who really wants to work on any of this. All of these things are not hard to do