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New Tanslucent Ball Type Joystick with Translucent Buttons
Grasshopper:
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--- Quote from: Grasshopper on May 13, 2005, 02:27:25 pm ---Is the joystick still usable if the plastic sleeve below the balltop is removed?
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I asked if it could be changed black, because frankly, yellow looks horrible on a clear/red/blue joystick! Ponyboy informed me already that the next run will be black.
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Black would be OK but I'd prefer bare metal.
ponyboy:
Grasshopper, I just checked it out. Bare metal not a problem. You can remove the sleeve and the stick operates with no problem.
Ponyboy
oldsage:
I've just finished testing my unit, but I'm lazy so I'll just quote some of the things i wrote to ponyboy:
--- Quote from: oldsage ---Okay, so now after testing the stick for real, i can say it works great, much more than you'd expect by the price or look. The one thing i didn't like was the cheap microswitchs, and the hard-to-figure-out restrictor plate (is that how you call it?). Other than that, i can pretty surely say I'll be ordering two of those for my next project (still in design...).
A few notes: I've used ipac to test the joy; The harness is annoying for people with insulated disconnects; The shaft color feels cheap and i didn't get how to remove it; The 4-way mode feels very unique (for the better); Throw could be a little longer, although still pretty nice; I only tested in 8-way, and 4-way games are less then ok in that mode; 8-way games work great in it; Why no red?; I mounted from above, and i do not recommend it; I should have recessed...
Thanks again, the joystick work great!
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So, yeah... Cool sticks... They feel real nice... I don't know how to describe it, but it kind of feels like you would think it should... I'll punch myself later for saying this, but i liked it better than my T-Stiks, E-Stiks, and all happs joys I've played with (note that i didn't get to fiddle with a P360 for more than a few seconds), it's a real close competition between it and the E-Stik for me, but all that might just be because i expected less, dunno...
BTW - @ponyboy, how about a name? You can't stay with "New Translucent Ball Type Joystick" forever (NTBTJ? Nah...) - Maybe you should change it to "Translucent Ball Type Joystick" (At least TBTJ sounds better)?
ponyboy:
I will have pic's for all colors tonight.
Ponyboy
ponyboy:
All Colors Posted.
Ponyboy