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| Nailz:
Hmmm, looked a few posts back and didn't find anything, also went back to the groovygamegear website and found no mention of it either..... |
| Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: patrickl on March 23, 2004, 11:00:17 am ---Apparently the Omnistick is available in ballhandle as well. See the link that Tiger-Heli looked up for me a few messages back (thanks for that btw). --- End quote --- Hey, Patrickl, I have an OT question about pedals in Menaces Yoke thread that you can probably answer. I saw in Stingray's thread you have the same pedals - http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=16636;start=80 |
| RandyT:
--- Quote from: Nailz on March 23, 2004, 10:55:00 am ---I certainly haven't tested either of them Randy, the only thing I can say for myself, is that the OMNI-Stik has a handle design I have never seen or used in any arcades, being that I grew up playing the classics in the 80's. The fact that the T-Stick has the bat handle or that you can use the ball-top brings back that familiarity to me. Obviously nothing personal, but for me, it's the appearance that has swayed me towards the T-stick.I would imagine I'm not the only one thinking this way. --- End quote --- I'm a little behind in the project, but much of that will be remedied shortly. Also, there is the "retro" version of the Prodigy that has been available for a couple of months now and was modeled after a "galapac" style stick. Go to the site and hit the shopping cart button, then hit controls. It's the first item on the list. It's a little pricey, but when you compare alternatives with the same options, it's right in the same "ball-park." RandyT |
| Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: Nailz on March 23, 2004, 11:04:58 am ---Hmmm, looked a few posts back and didn't find anything, also went back to the groovygamegear website and found no mention of it either..... --- End quote --- See Reply #9 in THIS CURRENT thread. |
| Brad Lee:
Used a piece of 1/8" threaded rod. Found a drawer knob(?) threaded inside with 1/8". The little square is a cube of wood, attached to the cp, and with a tiny eye-hook screwed in also- the rod slides through the eye, serves as the pivot point. On the Tstick's white knob(the 4/8 switch) I used another eyehook with tiny nuts on either side to keep the other end of the rod in place & attached to the tstick. The eye-hook holes are the same height off of the CP so that when the rod goes through both, it's perfectly parallel to the plane of the CP Also I had to file some of the tstick away- in the groove that the original white knob slides through, from 4way to 8way. Unmodified you need to give slight pressure to lift the knob before you can slide it to switch. I smoothed it out so that only the one motion is needed Turns out this caused some problems. If you move the stick in circles, it causes the white actuator ring(inside the tstick, its the round disc with square cutout) to move a bit. This causes the white switch to move a little, if you keep going i nthe same driection it keeps moving, if you start circling the other way it moves the other way. Some games would get a little too vigorous and Id start missing moves- with the restricter turned only partway it misses some diagonals and acts weird in general I ended up filing some more out of that groove, at each end this time. Now theres a nice gentle curve there, enough to keep it from moving once it's at the far end |
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