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Best options for Pac-Man type joystick for PC?
Jimbo:
--- Quote ---Are there any kits that would simply work with the Tornado Terry stick, mounting it easily, without me having to be some kind of craftsman / woodsmith? Also does the Tornado Terry have good reliability, and how much total cost am I looking at? TBH being 16 years older now, I'm really just over putting in a ton of effort for this. Especially since I worked for 3 months restoring the old cabinet. I just wanted to play a little Pac-man.
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I don't think there's an easy way around it. Either get a pac-man joystick like tornado terry's, figure out how to mount it and wire it up.... or just admit defeat and use a wireless gamepad. Depends how bad you want it.
Thenasty:
time to hack a KEYBOARD to play just your PACMAN.
Get a 4-way stick, hack and old keyboard and wire it up.
TurboC--:
"Really wanna play that PS4? Gotta build your own controller"
Phreakwars:
Oh snap, I totally remember what that joystick was called I used back in the day. It was the Hotrod SE https://www.ebay.com/itm/194463418003?hash=item2d46ec4693:g:NtsAAOSwqEJhdcN4 It uses Happ style joysticks and if you don't mind tearing it apart, the Tornado Terry sticks swap right in. Of course, back then, the Hotrod SE ran on I believe serial port or PS2. Loved that stick. I'm a right handed (pac-genre) player as is my son, so I had my Hotrod configured with a Tornado Terry on the right joystick, and the standard happ 8 way on the left. I sold mine off after I bought the new house and had room to make an arcade room with controls the way I like on my cabs. But still, loved that Hotrod SE. I linked to one I found on eBay as you can see (though not the SE version). Like I said though, NOT USB, but honestly, would really not take much to pull out the encoder and swap in an iPac, and do like I said I did on my old one, swap out one of the sticks for a Tornado Terry. Then you get both a dedicated Pacman genre stick, and an 8 way for that genre. I mean, otherwise, building your own control panel really isn't as hard as you might think and honestly is not expensive if you don't mind fabbing your own. Myself I suck at woodwork, can barely assemble IKEA crap, so I had my local cabinet company do the cuts for me and pre drill holes. The rest is simple (to me anyways) electrical hookup and screwing down a couple buttons and joystick.
--- Quote from: Thenasty on January 26, 2022, 06:30:49 pm ---time to hack a KEYBOARD to play just your PACMAN.
Get a 4-way stick, hack and old keyboard and wire it up.
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HEEHEE, reminds me of the good ole' days before Andy came out with the iPac. Great way to brush up on soldering practice.
TurboC--:
--- Quote from: Phreakwars on January 26, 2022, 11:22:00 pm ---Oh snap, I totally remember what that joystick was called I used back in the day. It was the Hotrod SE https://www.ebay.com/itm/194463418003?hash=item2d46ec4693:g:NtsAAOSwqEJhdcN4 It uses Happ style joysticks and if you don't mind tearing it apart, the Tornado Terry sticks swap right in. Of course, back then, the Hotrod SE ran on I believe serial port or PS2. Loved that stick. I'm a right handed (pac-genre) player as is my son, so I had my Hotrod configured with a Tornado Terry on the right joystick, and the standard happ 8 way on the left.
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Thanks for the reply, sorry I come here so infrequently. The ebay link is dead, do you remember roughly what that Hotrod SE cost? PS2/Serial is an annoyance however I can probably come up either with old PCs that have that (early MAME would still be easy for them to run) or I might even have an adapter already.