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ROTARY T-STIK PLUS (PLUS) - Willy Wonka Edition
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Sorry for not getting the pics up sooner, as you'll see I couldn't get a good picture. But here's what I did for my P360:
1. I used the same pulley, belt, and mouse hack.
2. I drilled a hole in the bottom of the joystick shaft. Normal drill with a 3/32 bit. Drilling went pretty easy and drilled down about 1/3"
3. Bought the RC car shaft for the pulley's and sliced it so that I had both ends of the shaft with a dremel. I used this shaft so that I could use the pin and e-clip to keep the pulley in place.
4. Sanded/grinded the end I had cut to fit into the hole I drilled in the joystick with a dremel. I did this to make it a bit more stable.
5. I used JB weld to fuse the two shaft together.
6. Then attached the belt and mouse just like mr.Curmudgeon. BTW, it took me for every to find a thin piece of aluminum to attach the mouse to give it some flex. The aluminum the mouse is attached to is Plumber's tape and was in a roll in the plumbing section.
7. The only other thing I did was the pulley wouldn't fit on the y-axis of the mouse for player 2. So I put it on the x-axis and the cut the lead of the ic for the x-axis input. I then soldered a wire from that trace to the y-axis input.
Here's the pics:
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Another pic without the flash, to see the JB Weld. Looks better than the pic suggests.
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Last pic with Pulley attached:
mr.Curmudgeon:
AWESOME!!
Sorry I hadn't seen this until now...How's it working for you so far?
mrC
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It works great. Can't even feel the pulley attached. I've been doing some other things, but I still need to adjust my settings in Ikari. Maybe I need to adjust the difficulty dipswitch while I'm at it, because I got killed last time I played and didn't recall having that many people killing me.
By accident I used it in Discs of Tron and beat my Hi score on the first try with out losing a life.
Thanks again for your idea.