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pointdablame:
didn't someone here use the contacts on the Jakks to install a regular 4 way joystick, and then chop the ball off of the Jakk joystick and mount a spinner top on it?  That would seem to be the easiest way.  4 way for everythign but pole position, and the "spinner" for Pole Position.
MameMe:
I have yet to take apart my mspacman jakks joy so I don't know what the 'ball' you are referring to looks like.  I do not want to break my kids toy apart until I can figure out a way to connect it to a single happs joystick.

By the sounds of what Peale said it cannot be done unless I also use a spinner.  I'm hoping someone can prove him wrong.

No offense Peale. :)
tmasman:

--- Quote from: pointdablame on May 04, 2005, 09:24:01 am ---didn't someone here use the contacts on the Jakks to install a regular 4 way joystick, and then chop the ball off of the Jakk joystick and mount a spinner top on it?  That would seem to be the easiest way.  4 way for everythign but pole position, and the "spinner" for Pole Position.

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The PCB inside is very well labled. If you're not afraid of soldering (or even just crimping wires...) you can hack this toy.

Wire up a regular joystick (Happs or whatever), cut the ball-top off of the joystick that's on the toy, find a toy steeling wheel that you can mod to fit on the toy's joystick shaft.

Your joystick functions are now separate from the steering wheel. (You'd mount the original joystick shaft w/ wheel rigid so it would only twist & no longer be a joystick).

Do it!  I'm hacking my Pacman one into a larger enclosure with a sturdier 4-Way (& attaching a 4" LCD screen to it for mobile fun).
NoOne=NBA=:

--- Quote from: MameMe on May 04, 2005, 09:29:57 am ---I do not want to break my kids toy apart until I can figure out a way to connect it to a single happs joystick.
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No Guts, No Glory.

I'll bet at least 80 percent of the people here learned alot of what they know by trying to figure out how to put stuff back together.



--- Quote ---I don't know what the 'ball' you are referring to looks like....By the sounds of what Peale said it cannot be done unless I also use a spinner.  I'm hoping someone can prove him wrong.
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The ball he's referring to is the top of the original joystick.
If you want Pole Position to work, you will have to either mount the original stick as well, or replace the pot with a new one.
MinerAl:
More a "paddle" than a "spinner."  The bottom of the joystick is connected to a potentiometer (like a paddle, or an analog joystick, or a 270 degree steering wheel).  You could probably rig up a way to connect the bottom of your Happs 8 way to a pot, or you could separate out the function of the steering to a dedicated turning thinggy.

I did it by taking the leads for the joystick over to a T-Stick plus, and using the stock Ms. Pac-TV stick as a dedicated mini steering wheel on my Mini-Namco2 cab.
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