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Spinner with return to center?
Chris:
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on July 03, 2004, 10:20:40 pm ---If you want a "return to center" spinner then do this (or something like it).
Get yourself a cheapo 270 degree PC steering wheel (the cheaper the better).
Tear it up, pull the wheel off (nicely), and add either a stereo knob (easiest method), or a real spinner knob to the existing return to center pot.
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Of course, then it won't spin, so it won't be a spinner anymore...
G@M3FR3@K:
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on July 03, 2004, 10:20:40 pm ---If you want a "return to center" spinner then do this (or something like it).
Get yourself a cheapo 270 degree PC steering wheel (the cheaper the better).
Tear it up, pull the wheel off (nicely), and add either a stereo knob (easiest method), or a real spinner knob to the existing return to center pot.
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Wouldn't that be defeating the purpose, since he wanted to use it as a cheap alternative to a wheel for playing Outrun & others. If he has to go out and buy a wheel, why couldn't he just keep it intact for driving games, I think it will yield much better results than a hacked return to center spinner.
Not knocking your idea Paige, it was a good one, and he did ask how to build one, just think using a steering wheel would work much better for the driving games he's referring to.
On a side note, was there any games that used a return to center paddle?
Gradius:
I also have a cheap analogue joystick for PC. I wonder how I could invent a way to transform the left-right movement of the stick into a circular movement. This would do the trick too.
Chris:
--- Quote from: Gradius on July 04, 2004, 02:41:03 am ---I also have a cheap analogue joystick for PC. I wonder how I could invent a way to transform the left-right movement of the stick into a circular movement. This would do the trick too.
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Take it apart and at it's heart will be a pair of pots. Attach a knob to the X-axis pot and you're in business.
Better yet, buy a 100K linear taper pot with a really long shaft and put it in the place of that pot; the pot in the joystick is liable to have a short shaft. (If it's USB, the pot may not be 100K.)
--Chris
Gradius:
I've just tried my analogue stick with Arkanoid, as a test, and it seems that it doesn't work as analogue. The further the stick is from the center, the faster the paddle on the screen should move. But this does not happens like this, but as being controlled with a digital stick. Is this normal? I've redefined controls in input this game chaning dials to J2 X + and -