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Flinkly:

randy,

will you be offering the happ 49-way in your store?  it sounds like that would be the best way to go, since happ is so expensive, and if you had them, we could order everything at once.

SirPoonga:


--- Quote from: Arcadiac on February 28, 2005, 12:36:06 pm ---Pardon my ignorance, I have 2 questions.

Do many games use/need a 49-way joystick?

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In mame, only 3 games.
You could use this as a psuedo analog stick for analog games and PC games which is the biggest advantage of this stick.

RandyT:

No-one,

You may find it very interesting that only your 2-ways diagrams and one other are correct. :)

The rest were some of the first iterations that didn't work properly for one reason or another. But you certainly have the right idea.

And you are correct in that the host never gets data that it needs to try to translate into something useful.  The profoundly overlooked difference  is that the hardware now makes ALL the decisions about how things are translated, not the software.  And regardless of what has been said in this thread, anyone with any experience with these sticks knows that there is very little, if any, room for adjustment with these grids.  Either they behave as they should, or they do not.  There are NO, and I stress this, NO in-betweens.  What works well is based entirely on the behaviour of the mechanisms, not a theoretical grid pattern in which you are free to play.

And this is the point I have been trying make here.  What you think should work, doesn't, and what you think shouldn't, does.

If I posted the actual maps, the naysayers would have a field day espousing what they think they know about them.


The only way you can really judge this is to actually use one.   But I already see a few orders, so at least some will be finding out for themselves. :)

RandyT




tetsujin:

Hey,

So on another note - any options with this encoder for letting the PC host software tell the encoder which mapping to use, rather than having the user switch manually?

The choice of the correct mapping seems invariably tied to what software is running - and this is something the PC always knows.  The user generally knows what's running, too - but they shouldn't have to be involved in something that could be so easily automated...

SirPoonga:


--- Quote from: RandyT on February 28, 2005, 12:51:28 pm ---If I posted the actual maps, the naysayers would have a field day espousing what they think they know about them.

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Of course.

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