Joystick cannot (easily) do diagonals

[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