Main > Main Forum

Rotary Joystick feel?

Pages: (1/2) > >>

goofy:

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but from what I remember of the rotary joystick games (like Ikari Warrior, Guerilla Wars, etc.), the rotary stick clicked at each increment of a turn and probably had about 49 points around the diameter. Is this correct?

I guess what I'm wondering is, if I take a standard joystick and hookup a mouse hack (somewhere here had cool looking directions to do this) to it to make a rotary joystick, will the feel and operation work well or will it just spin too loosely for these games?

Thanks for the thoughts and opinions.

Darkstalker:

Well, you could do what I did and buy some Happs optical rotary supers.  It takes some MAME hacking from what I've been reading, but it gets rid of the "click" feel from the LS30s.

paigeoliver:

I believe the clicky rotary sticks have 12 points around the dial. I have a Wico one around here but it is missing a tiny piece of metal that renders it useless.

Apollo:

Yeah I'm pretty sure it's 12 clicks.

KevSteele:

I can confirm it's just 12 clicks on the Happs rotary.

Kevin

Pages: (1/2) > >>

Go to full version