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Cool classic joystick on sale
crashwg:
Good thing I read to the bottom of this thread... Thanks for the warning Rampy, I was just about to order a couple!
missioncontrol:
--- Quote from: rampy on December 11, 2004, 09:01:06 pm ---I've ordered two of these joysticks previously... and they suck big donkey ballz.
Besides having the button mapping be weird (it has ONE button and it's recognized as BUTTON 2 -- which is pretty useless, and no software config to change it)
They are junk.
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JoyMonkey:
I've got a couple of them too. One fell apart after my wife played BurgerTime with it for about 10 minutes. They're pretty, but they feel bad and like to fall apart.
Kremmit:
It's too bad the quality stinks, I'd love a pair of these if they worked.
Which parts fail on them; has anybody tried swapping the parts that failed with some from an original 2600 stick? They look pretty similar inside, but without one to check out, I can't tell if they match up. Mabye it's possible to transport the USB PCB into an Atari shell, or replace just the part that fails from an original.
JB:
--- Quote from: Kremmit on December 10, 2004, 10:54:46 pm ---"Wonder Ring" inside, you bet! Lots of info on these, and internal pictures:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,23203.0.html
(a little) more:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,23390.0.html
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*chuckles*
Looking at the pics, it looks like they were basing it more off of Gemini's Gemsticks than the original 2600 sticks(of course, Gemsticks were almost identical to the 2600 sticks aside from the new actuator and fire button).
Oversized, convex fire button is the big giveaway.
Though the stick shaft looks like the Gemini design too, which seems to hold up a little better than Atari's original design, given the shape of the sticks in my collection. Though that doesn't say much given precisely how bad the design is on the Atari sticks.