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Solved an issue with some diagonals not working on my arcade joystick

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Zebidee:
Very good, and thank you for posting your solution   :cheers:

Crtified:
Many thanks good sir  :cheers:

ZephyrResto:

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--- Quote from: Crtified on April 10, 2022, 03:14:04 am ---It's a Sanwa joystick. Which makes my issue unusual, because the pinouts should have matched. My machine is not made for working on, so it's a real pain to get in there and figure out exactly why they didn't - I won't, today.

Anyway, just thought I'd post it. Because while Googling for a solution to issues with diagonals, I came across a number of forum posts describing very similar issues - namely, 2 of the 4 diagonals not working - and very few of them figured out the reason why. After my experiences today, I strongly suspect some of them would have been unknowingly encountering the issue I did.

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I suspected you were talking about Sanwa's. They are less common of these forums US-based forums, and have the integrated connector.

I am building a cab with Sanwa joys ATM, but still early stages so haven't encountered the interface issue yet.

I am wondering if this is due to joystick X-Y orientation? Also, can it be resolved by physically moving connector pins?

Interested in what you find.

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You're quite right, it's probably related to orientation of installation - I have it in the (I think non-default) horizontal alignment.

I have resolved it by taking the 5-wire cable connecting the joystick to the controller board, and swapping two of the wires over (by cutting and resoldering in-situ, which happened to be the easiest method in the moment).  That grouped the directions back into the adjacent pairs LR/UD, from the controller's point of view, and everything is happy again...

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Thank you for this post. Here I am 3 years later with the same problem. I had to mount my ServoStik's orientated 180 degrees from normal to fit into my CP. Can you share which two pins on the cable you switched?

Thank you!
Brett

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