Until i get it, i will have no idea if i can use it or not lol.
My thought was to add it to my custom built panel, but i wasn't sure what you even need to hook up an analog stick. Nows as good as time as any to learn i suppose lol. Wish i had an idea what game might have used this, just out of curiosity. Kinda looked like one of the sticks i saw on happs quite a while back.
groovY~!
I saw a similar stick on E-bay from a Space Lords game, but this could have been from any number of games.
As far as what to use it for, Afterburner and Afterburner II come immediately to mind. There were also many other flight games that used analog sticks, also, if you're not a stickler for accuracy, it will be a good choice for Star Wars or 270-degree driving games. It will work as a trigger stick for Tron or Zaxxon, but you're relying on MAME's analog-to-digital software conversion, which works fairly well for these games.
As far as interfacing it, it will have 2 pots on it (I hope) similar to a Star Wars yoke, so I can think of three options -
to the gameport - (might need to swap the pots from 5K to 100K), see
http://www.gunpowder.freeserve.co.uk/wheels/wiring.htmUSB - see
http://1uparcade.com/projects-dualstrike.htmlor
USB - daveb (BYOAC member) is building an analog controls encoder, but I don't think it's out yet. There was a thread on it within the last month.