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I Created a pretty realistic 720 Controller

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fischb:
I watched this video and it gave me an idea. 

I took a spinner from my panel that has a 5 inch steering wheel attachment.  I found some old arcade joystick parts and drilled an angled hole in which to insert the joystick and now I have a reproduction of the 720 controller.  I wonder what other games can use this type of controller.

Note: I free-handed the drill hole but it came out pretty close to the real one.  This is for the arcade game 720 played in MAME

Nephasth:
Nailed it!

pixel:
Not bad Fischb.


 From looking at the original assembly... it appears that the Top of the Ball,  would travel in about a  3" to 4"  Diameter circle.

 Your adaptation appears to be more like 7 to 8 inches in diameter.

 As a result... this will make it very difficult to pull off quick 360 degree movements, as your hand would have
to travel much much further,  to get the same result.

processedmeat:
Did you have issues with the spinner not lining up with the direction of the skater after a while like the guy did in his video?  If so how did you solve it?  Thanks

pbj:
Hm.  There's some potential here.

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