How do I hook up a World Series Baseball Controls?

[GGKoul]

Hello

I just acquired a World Series Control Panel.  And I'm wondering if anyone has hooked up the Pitching & Batting controls to their panel?  If so, how does one do it?  As I'm not sure how I go about adding these 2 joysticks.  

As it appears the 2 joysticks go through a Interface board under the panel and then plug in directly to PCB.  So even a wiring diagram would be a good start.  

Thanks!
-GGKoul

[jerryjanis]

I have them hooked up to my panel.  Each spring-loaded joystick consists of 2 5k pots.  I simply used 1UP's Microsoft Dual Strike hack to wire them up, and they worked great in Mame.

http://www.1uparcade.com/projects-dualstrike.html

I worked with the wires that come out of the joysticks themselves, so the PCB on the control panel is not involved.

Either hack 2 Sidewinder's, or buy the new analog joystick interface card:

http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=17230;start=msg136541#msg136541

If you need some more detailed information, ask and I will whip something up.  It was a piece of cake, it was inexpensive, and it's really cool.  Have fun!

[jerryjanis]

Here's a picture I found:

[GGKoul]

Hey

Thanks for the reply.  I actually have some Sidewinders that I could use.  I assume you had to use 2 sidewinders, one for the batting and one for the pitching?

Could you provide a wiring diagram?

Thanks!!
-GGKoul

[jerryjanis]

I did exactly like in 1UP's diagram.  Each controller has one "up/down" pot and one "left/right" pot, so you only need to wire up the 2 red, 2 white, and 2 black wires (those are the colors in the diagram, not on the actual controller) from the Dual Strike circuit board to the pots on the baseball joysticks:

http://www.1uparcade.com/images/DS_Board_02.jpg

[GGKoul]

The attachment didnt show up.  Can you reattached or email to ggkoul@cogeco.ca ?

Thanks!
-GGKoul

[SirPeale]

Wasn't an attachment.  Was a hotlink'd image.  Server doesn't like that.  Fixed with a URL instead of an image tag.  Click away!

[jerryjanis]

Ahhhhh.  My browser must have cached it.  It looked fine to me!

[Chunce DeLeone]

Gotten pretty close to hooking up the leland joys to my pc via dual stirke hack, some thing wierd is happening, when i aim to pitch the joy works fine, then when go to pitch its reversed.  it pitches on the way back instead of when the joy naturally snaps back.  How could this be? 

[scotthh]

UncleT has some Dual Strike Hack photos. (Found courtesy of the Wiki.)

[jerryjanis]

Have you tried going into the Mame settings and remapping the joystick directions?  I seem to remember that the controls were not correct by default.

[Chunce DeLeone]

yeah i remapped them in mame, thats the wierd part, it works while pitching but is reversed when aiming within the game.  Like up down side to side is correct when i actually pitch but up is down and left is right when i aim.  Also in that picture of the Leland stick you can't see what wires are butted together, can you tell me what wires are butted and what they are connected to?   

[Chunce DeLeone]

r u saying that the y axis should be the x axis , or that the directions should be reversed?

[jerryjanis]

Sorry for the delayed response.  I'm not sure how they need to be configured off-hand, besides trying a bunch of different things.  I remember that the whole process was a little wacky.  I tried hooking up my old controllers, but it has been years since I have tried them, and I didn't have time to get them working.  I will try to figure out how to do it, but it may need to wait until the weekend.

It's possible that if all the different combinations of controller settings doesn't work, that there may be something that needs to be tweaked in the source code, but I'm not sure.  I'll have to test it out.

[Chunce DeLeone]

Cool no worries,  its a cool joystick, but yes very whaky!!!!  lots of fun, ill keep tinkering

[Chunce DeLeone]

I found the same problem with a standard mouse, so I think there may be something wrong with the driver, going to start a new thread asking for someone who owns the actual machine, thanks for the help,