Does anyone make an 8-way leaf joystick with a top fire?

[benarcade]

GGG has this:  Night Mission™ Arcade Mini-Flightstick  but it's microswitch.

[lamprey]

I don't know of anyone that sells one. However, you could always buy two and combine them. for example the Suzo Happ top-fire uses that relatively standard base. If you also, bought a GGG Super-Pro Leaf (or Pac Pro), then you could swap the leafs from the Super-pro to the top-fire or the top-fire shaft to the super-pro, which ever makes sense. You might also, ping GGG/Randy to see if he will sell the joystick leafs separate to save some cash.

[benarcade]

Combining the two is a great idea - thanks! It also reminded me of GGG Micro-Leaf switches -

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,71675.0.html

because it got me thinking about buying a standard 8way top fire with microswitches and installing the micro-leafs in it. But according to the forum - link - the micro-leaf doesn't work with joysticks.

Either way, it looks like I'll have to fashion one myself. It would be nice if one of you vendors took the reins - there is demand.

[RandyT]

I don't know of anyone that sells one. However, you could always buy two and combine them. for example the Suzo Happ top-fire uses that relatively standard base. If you also, bought a GGG Super-Pro Leaf (or Pac Pro), then you could swap the leafs from the Super-pro to the top-fire or the top-fire shaft to the super-pro, which ever makes sense. You might also, ping GGG/Randy to see if he will sell the joystick leafs separate to save some cash.

Probably a bit more complicated than that.  Each joystick has it's own geometry, and if designed specifically for micros, requires some design workarounds for leaf switches.  That being said, I believe I could do this for the Night Mission sticks, with some caveats.  The first is that the restrictor is over the switches, so any adjustment would have to take place with it off, and second of course is a fairly significant extra cost.