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darthpaul:
I'm keeping all the old software running on Windows XP, everything was working so no need to change.

DaOld Man:
Sorry about the old thread bump, but Ive been working with servos to mechanically switch the  joysticks between 4 and 8 way, based on game (or emulator) selected.
I use control choose  (Mala plugin) to set the servos.
Might post some pics later.

darthpaul:
Any update on this?

DaOld Man:
Sorry for the late update, but yes, Darthpaul. I am finished with the joystick servo project.
Its working very good.
Here is a pic of Player 1 servo, (I have a servo on both P1 and P2 Joysticks).


Here is another shot of the same servo:



And here is the servo controller I used:



The controller can control up to 6 servos, of course I'm only using 2.
The controller needs 5 volts Dc for power, and it talks to the computer via USB.
I am using Control Choose plugin for Mala to tell controller to switch between 4 way and 8 way.
Control Choose calls bat files that send servo positions to the controller.
Control Choose sends 4 way or 8 way commands based on Mame game usage, and also for each emulator used. (Example NES uses 4 way).

DaOld Man:
Here are the bat files that controlchoose calls.
They send a message to the maestro controller (app for the servo controller board), to switch joysticks to 4 way or 8 way.
I had to change extension to txt for this site to let me upload them.
These are batch files and have extension ".bat" in the real world.

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