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| Jubbs:
So I am helping my uncle build a control panel for a mame cab. We wired it up and I spent a day learning Hyperspin. I had done a bunch of classic games like pacman and tempest and everything worked fine. I recently decided to put contra in the cab and noticed I couldn't shoot diagonally. I opened up the config to make sure I had set that up but I noticed that the joysticks couldn't hit both gates...at least not easily. My uncle got the stuff from a pack off ebay, I think it is all simple happ stuff. Without having to buy a new joystick is there any simple way to get the joystick to hit both gates? I read somewhere that I can bend the gates a bit but I was afraid of doing that and wanted to ask first. |
| JDFan:
What size hole did you drill in the CP ? -- Sounds like they might be smaller than needed - Sometimes if it is a bit small the handle will hit the side of the CP instead of being able to hit both activators enough to do the diagonals well - so if you made the joystick holes fairly small you might check and see if it is hitting the CP side and if so maybe cut the hole a bit larger. Also depends on the Joystick whether it can be adjusted (ie. the leaf type can be adjusted fairly easily while some others are harder to adjust.) |
| DeLuSioNal29:
Do you have any pics of the joystick? (Especially from underneath.) If it's a Happ Super joystick, try disassembling it and flipping the actuator over, so that the smaller side is touching the switches. If it's a Zippy or Sanwa, the restrictor plate is set to 4-way instead of 8-way. Just keep in mind that if you set it to 8-way, any 4-way games (especially Pacman) will probably not work as well. DeLuSioNaL29 |
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