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49-ways, the new 8-ways?
Tailgunner:
Maybe a must have to the people who like the 49 way games, but I don't see them replacing an 8 way sticks on most people's panels.
How hard is it to scrounge up a working Wico 49 way these days?
paigeoliver:
No, 49-way would be a poor 4-way.
Well, you can still buy NEW 49-way sticks. I also remember (granted 4 years ago) when I went into my local distributor they had a huge box of them in the room where you pickup your parts labeled at $12 each.
jerryjanis:
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on May 01, 2004, 08:44:05 pm ---No, 49-way would be a poor 4-way.
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How come?
paigeoliver:
Long throw, lack of diamond shaped movement pattern and the fact that they VERY MUCH have diagonals.
jerryjanis:
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on May 01, 2004, 08:49:28 pm ---the fact that they VERY MUCH have diagonals.
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Yes but with 49 different directions, it would be trivial to translate all of the diagonals into corresponding up/down/left/right directions. In fact, a similar translation would need to be done for the 49-way joystick to operate as an 8-way. The reason that a regular 8-way joystick doesn't translate into 4-way directions very well is that each diagonal lies EXACTLY in between the x/y axes so there's no way to determine if an up/left diagonal direction is more "up" or more "left". That wouldn't be a problem with the 49-way.