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ServoStik 4 Way / Restrictors
Nephasth:
Adjustments are pretty much always necessary.
PL1:
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Depends on how picky you are, but minor adjustments are often needed to make it feel/respond right for your expectations.
This is especially true if you mod sticks like a trigger stick, Zippyy or Happ Super by installing quieter microswitches.
IIRC, the trigger stick replacement switches needed almost 5 degrees of additional bend to hit diagonals properly. :o
Scott
newoski:
Any video tutorials on disassembling joysticks?
mgb:
The same thing is common with the Sanwa JLW
just remove the 4 screws that hold the restrictor plate and lift it off.
BadMouth:
Of course in an ideal world one direction would disengage the instant a different direction was triggered.
When I did 4/8 way switching, I did some testing to determine if it was better to have a slight overlap where both directions are triggered or a slight gap where neither direction is triggered.
By slight overlap or slight gap, I mean if you concentrate and hold the stick exactly between the two switches could you get it to register both or neither.
I actually got higher scores in the games with a slight overlap. On 4-way games, newer versions of MAME don't allow input from more than one direction anyway. It takes the most recent direction and ignores the last even if the switch is still tripped. MAME was correcting for the overlap and making the transition instant anyway, while a gap was still a gap.
If you have to apply extra pressure to get it to hit the diagonal, then it's fine.
Just my $.02