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Looking for analogue joystick for my cabinet?
LeedsFan:
I want to add an analogue joystick to my cabinet to play games like Star Wars, Roadrunner, Paper Boy etc.
shadowdrak:
No, the happs P360 is an 8-way. It just uses optical sensors instead of switches. From what I have seen, arcade style analog sticks are pretty expensive. Happ makes trigger stick analogs like the flight stick type you mentioned; they also make one with the "super" handle.
http://www.happcontrols.com/joysticks/50287600.htm
Anyway, you have to make some sort of gameport hack to interface it to your computer. I will see if I can dig up the link. You could also hack up a USB gamepad/stick for this purpose as long as it is a true analog (not hall effect). Which sticks are hall effect and which use pots? I don't really know. I have a couple USB pads and both of em are hall effect.
rotary joysticks are the kind that can tell if you are spinning the handle.
Doc-:
You might want to take a look at this one - it is off the shelf, but it can be integrated almost seamlessly into your cabinet by carefully mounting it on a wood panel. The USB interface is also quite nice. I'm pretty happy with mine:
http://www.beersmith.com/mame/panels.htm#analog
Cheers!
Doc-
NoOne=NBA=:
You can pick up Happ analog sticks pretty cheap on ebay, if you keep an eye out.
I think I paid like $20 for mine.
It's the same stick currently going in the Star Wars Trilogy machines.
Another just like it sold for $51 recently.
That said, you probably aren't going to be too happy playing Road Runner with this huge trigger stick coming up out of the panel.
I am planning to use a 49-way for most of the games like that.
The 49-way is basically a low-res analog stick.
It has 3 settings in each direction, as opposed to the 255 that are used by a REAL analog stick.
For games like Road Runner, this gives you slow/med/fast in each direction.
The 49-way won't work for games like Star Wars however.
They need the higher resolution, or you end up with a really jumpy aiming system.
markb:
As one of the previous posts I am going to use a Saitek ST90, I took the whole thing apart and sprayed the buttons blue to match my cab.
It's a USB joystick so therefore it interfaces well with a PC and although it's a flight joystick it has buttons instead of a dial to control speed etc.
It can be picked up in the UK for about