Button Selection - Upgrading from Ultimarc gold leaf?

[wcndave]

I was watching a crazy fast track and field technique on YT, when I thought, as a piano player, I should be able to do the same movement.  I don't want to get as fast as that, but none of my friends or I have ever passed the second round of the 100m, or can lift more than the very lightest weight in hyper olympics, so it would be nice to be able to.

I tried with just two fingers, going slowly, and it doesn't work, because the button doesn't come back up by the time the next finger is down.
Then I thought about the fact that none of us ever made it close to the second round 100m, or close to the records, and I think perhaps it's the buttons... does that sound plausible?

I have the Ultimarc gold leaf pushbuttons, which have all kinds of listed benefits, one of which is "no plunger spring".  So there's low force required, but does it come back up much slower?

One of my buttons is broken anyway, so I need to replace at least one, and I figured perhaps there's a better button out there I should consider instead.
The machine is used for the full range of games, from platform to shooter, to fight versus to track and field, but possibly that's the only genre that needs something a little more specific?

Any ideas out there about what would be a good replacement / upgrade?

Many thanks!

Dave

[wcndave]

Beuller?

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[Drnick]

Probably best played with real leaf switches,  I've used the gold leafs quite happily for most games but my brother complained that his old technique for T&F when used on the goldleafs wouldn't work properly for him.

Search for Rollie Leaf switches, see following video for a quick overview of them

[wcndave]

Thanks for that, interesting.

The gold leaf don't appear to match either of the two types he showed, I'll have to take one apart and have a look at what's going on there.

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[wcndave]

I checked my box of parts, I already took one apart ;-)

Once taken apart, they don't seem to want to go together again, so I stopped there.  Must have been years ago!

It looks like the Rollie buttons are US only, and I don't want clicky buttons, in fact I think they'd be slower, so I guess I'll stick with the gold leaf Ultimarc ones for now.

Thanks again!

[mahuti]

https://groovygamegear.com/webstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=73&products_id=361

I use The true-leaf pros switches and I dig them. Scroll down to see em. Randy ships internationally. Those do not add to existing buttons... you have to use the whole button assembly from GGG.

[Drnick]

If you are UK then you can try these guys

https://www.jbgaming.co.uk/parts/leaf-buttons-switches/

Pinball also uses leaf switches for the flippers so can look there

https://pinparts.co.uk/  (They have a long shaft flipper button that may work well in a wooden panel).  May have to contact them to make sure you got the right switches and stuff to go with

Hope this has been of some help