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options for 49 way joysticks?
RandyT:
--- Quote from: negative1 on September 10, 2022, 01:28:08 pm ---here's a closer look and speculation about the arcade 1up 49 way sticks:
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Honestly not sure what's left to speculate about, now that they are playing with one. It looks like a low-cost, spring centered joystick of Chinese origin with a magnetic analog sensor added on, which converts the analog data to 49 positions and sends that information via a proprietary serial protocol. Pretty much what folks here said. The only new info seems to be that a stiff spring was used to make it a little more controllable, but with that design it also equates to a more "locky" center position, and possibly premature socket wear. Time will tell on the latter.
I think the only speculation left is whether someone eventually makes a USB interface for use with a PC and whether it was worth bothering with. :)
game_nerd:
sooo I'm resurrecting this thread.. I see that the build quality seems to be much worse on the 1up sticks than the originals, but the original ones are soo expensive.
do you guys think there's any way to shoehorn these 1up 49 way sticks into a old cabinet running 97 or 99 blitz?
I know these use an encoder and the older one just plugs directly into the jamma, so that would be a challenge..