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Flinkly:

i know i turned you down when you offered me one, but with this full length explanation, it's starting to sound better and better.  i would love to hear how the williams does when testing...since this is the 49 way i have.  so keep up the good work and get the tests done as soon as possible.

DarkKobold:

Congratulations on getting this working Randy! Good job, stellar effort!

SirPoonga:

Actually, I for one would use all the modes :).

ACtually, it wouldn't be an iput.  The best method would to have another IC control the LEDs that light up.  This could be hacked to power relays which would implement my LEDs around the joystick idea.

The other thing I could see a user wanting to do which would be completely possible with your current setup via hardware, is have the setup change automatically based on controls.dat or mame's info.  Just hook up a relay circuit to the parallel port.  Custom program FE to select the appropiate button based on controls.dat when game is selected :)
See people, another reason to donate time to controls.dat!

Now what might be cool to hack into this is atari volcanos to select mode and indicate which mode is seleted (can be done in hardware with relays and such pretty easily) so it looks like atari Xs and 0s.

ok, this product is giving me way too many ideas...

Xiaou2:

 While nice for standard 49 way...

   I personally see the additional features as purely a novelty.

  If playing a 2way game of  galaga... and you accidentally press down+diagnol left...
then your move will not register.  This will mean you will have made a costly pause.. and may have died as a result of the non action.

  As for the way a 49 way responds..   its not quite as smooth and fast as a simple
wico leaf joystick.   Its resistence is higher with the rubber x... or in the case if the new
style 49ways... there is a center zone that is hard to get out of (same as an analog stick).

  I suppose this would be ok for a bartop if you wanted to play sinistar that bad.. and yet needed the other control ability without having the room to add the other controls... but other than that.. its not as good as the real mechanical solutions.

 I didnt remember seeing if that supported more than one joy...  and to me, that would be more important a feature than the other stuff.    Having to buy 2 encoders to have a dual 49 way joystick setup kinda stinks.



 

Flinkly:

no one is forcing you to buy it, but for those who don't have the money to spend on 6 different kinds of joysticks might enjoy this.  and at that price, buying two isn't that bad, mostly if you know how to solder, which i would choose just due to the ease of it, but on top of that, it's cheaper.  and for a question to whomever gets the first one, how does it compare to what the sjc already does?  do they do the basic 49 way stuff the same?  is one better?  i might just get one of these because they are cheaper, but is there a reason to consider the sjc?  any input would be appreciated.

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