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| chopperthedog:
Back in the day I was never consciously aware of the difference between a leaf (that came stock with a cab) or a micro-switch (that an operator installed later on). Over the last 6 months I've struggled to find a good specimen of a cab in the wild that may still have had leaf buttons. Through an ad on klov I scored a bag of some old leaf switches and various colored buttons for 15 bucks shipped. My first experiment was adding a leaf to my DK cab that recently got the arcadeSD board and a sanyo ezv20 back in it. After a couple games a galaga and tweaking of the leaf that it became clear. I finally get it.... I finally get what the "flutter" of the button is. Ever since getting my other horizontal cab up and running I found that I really didn't power on the computer anymore in my jrok defender cabaret and have been de-mame'ing it. In the process of removing the ipac and adding 2 9pin molex connectors inline with the jamma harness to the control panel, I also decided to add leafs and old buttons. Compared to the standard button profile the older buttons clearly have a higher plunger and when the leaf switches are tuned just right things really start to not click :P . But this got me thinkin', over the last 14 months of paying attention to this site and other peoples builds I haven't seen anyone go old school with leaf buttons. I've even scrolled through numerous pages of the control panel database thread and did not see one leaf switch. All the folk with the fancy military spec wiring and pretty 3 color led's loaded with micro-switches have no idea what you're missing. The ultimarc goldleafs that were in my panel before can't even come close to the awesomeness of the old leaf switches and buttons. good day. |
| yotsuya:
I've used Rollie Leaf Switches as well as RandyT's Leafs and have been happy with the feel from both. But I know what you mean. Real leafs are the best, especially with the twitch-shooting type games.. |
| ark_ader:
If anyone can find NOS leaf switches that doesn't break the bank, please let me know. |
| tron84:
I try to use leaf switches when I can. There is nothing like them, like yotsuya said the old ones are the best for the twitch shooters. They are just fast & smooth. But I used some for my pac man rehab of the joystick. I tried the rehab the original leafs but they were so shot. But it is just a mobile og pac man joystick/ 4way games controller I made. I just love leaf switches. |
| 404:
Same thing when i got my ms pac cabaret. I started just banging on the player buttons and started to realize, without even playing a game, this was really how those old games were intended to feel. It's really night and day. solid deal on the buttons bundle too. |
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