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| paigeoliver:
I have personally owned or tested essentially every variation on Wico sticks (there are like 20+ variations), and I can confidently say which ones are the absolute best. And yes, technically NONE of the sticks in my top 4 actually use leaf switches, but they are still Wicos and still the best. #1. Wico leaf stick with optical conversion kit installed. All the feel with none of the problems. #2. Perfect 360 (Happs) with the handle exchanged for a wico one (the P360 is a Wico class of joystick, despite being made by happs). I can't remember if I swapped in stronger springs or not, order the stronger spring just in case. #3. The Wico sticks with the rubber grommet and the square actuator (microswitch). #4. (These seem to be rare), the same basic stick as #3 but with a spring instead, swap the spring for a "Happ's heavy spring" from Bob Roberts. You HAVE to swap the spring, without the spring swap they become the WORST instead of the best. #5 The classic (most common) Wico leaf with leaf switches and rubber grommet comes in 5th place. Honorable mention goes to the Wico rotary leaf. You might also want to experiment with the long hangled and short handled sticks as they have different feels as well. |
| namedos:
Paigeoliver, I know you can set up the perfect 360's in 4-way mode but do they work as well as a Galaga reunion leaf? Currently I've got a T-stick plus for my 4-way but was considering moving to the reunion stick. Thanks. |
| JODY:
If you are talking about the Ms. Pacman / Galaga reunion stick it isn't leaf. It is microswitch. |
| mahuti:
On the topic of spinner.. both Oscar and SlikStik are fine. SlikStik touts its rediculous amount of spin time, which I find to be overkill. That being said, that spin time isn't necessarily a boon or a detriment... just a choice. The Oscar has a reasonable spin time, and a good feel. The SlikStik has more than enough spin time and a good feel. I made my choice on cost, and on where I could combine my purchases (I thought about a slikstik spinner, but had no interest in their spinner knobs). If you want to spend more money, go for it, my friend swears by his SlikStik spinner. |
| XtraSmiley:
--- Quote from: mahuti on March 03, 2005, 01:58:01 pm ---On the topic of spinner.. both Oscar and SlikStik are fine. SlikStik touts its rediculous amount of spin time, which I find to be overkill. That being said, that spin time isn't necessarily a boon or a detriment... just a choice. The Oscar has a reasonable spin time, and a good feel. The SlikStik has more than enough spin time and a good feel. I made my choice on cost, and on where I could combine my purchases (I thought about a slikstik spinner, but had no interest in their spinner knobs). If you want to spend more money, go for it, my friend swears by his SlikStik spinner. --- End quote --- Thanks for the info PO. As for the above, I checked into the cost and since the SS comes with a knob and Oscar doesn't, the cost is only a few dollars difference, what do you think now? |
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