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Rotary Joystick games list
Silver:
You can always hack your own rotary joysticks - there are a couple of hacks floating round on the board, 1 adds a mechanical mouse scrollwheel, the other adds some gears to connect top a mouse encoder wheel (think cheap optical rotary). I've also been successful just by using an old rotary encoder I pulled from a broken peice of audio kit. Its small and looks just like a little Pot except it keeps spinning. Mine clicks 24 times in 1 revolution although you can get different ones. Its handy in that it has the clicks like a mechanical rotary but it has outputs identical to an optical encoder (2 channels) that you can wire directly to an optipac...
Hoagie_one:
there is a working heavy barrel cab on ebay right now, local to me. Flirting with the idea of making a decidated rotary mame cab, or just gutting the controls of of it, and selling the rest.
dunno
SeaMonkey:
RE: Hoagie_One
I personally love the rotary games. I say go for it. There is nothing in the world like hitting Ikari Warriors with a partner.
I fly my old high-school chum Jason in once a year for hours of glorious rotational battle.
RE: XYBots
Oh yeah.
RE: Lil Wolf
I have had no problems with Druin's board for my rotary. I have only tested it on Ikari Warriors, though, before I started sanding, puttying, and painting.
yourfatmama:
mameotron... NICE job at the gamelist per controller type action!! I had been inquiring as to how to create such a list (quick like) and then the rotary question came up... I think posts like this rotary question are quite helpful to n00b's and would-be mamecab builders for figuring out their control panel needs.
SaiNRuB- nice posting, url'd gamelist and everything, gotta love KLOV.com!
SeaMonkey:
Looks like some other folks are interested so here are some sources.
The original yellow topped sticks:
http://www.videoconnect.com/pages/joys.htm
For brand new Happs rotary joysticks:
http://www.happcontrols.com/joysticks/rotary&optical_joy.htm
The Happs have smooth control, but are beefier and require about 4" space under the hood. Also, the bear-top is not as satisfying to me as the yellow hex joystick top.