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Super Ultra-Mega Massive 49-way Review online at Retroblast!
RandyT:
--- Quote from: Tiger-Heli on June 30, 2005, 03:31:01 pm ---I'm sure KevSteele will respond to this, but I think we're splitting hairs here. The GP-Wiz49 could be used standalone with a standard joystick, but no one would buy it over the GP-Wiz or Eco unless they were going to use it with the 49-way stick.
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I think a quote is in order:
--- Quote from: Kevin Steele ---Normally I'd put out three separate reviews, but the three products are so intertwined and co-dependent that it seemed better to review them as a gestalt whole, so to speak. -KS
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The three products (which three? I count four if you actually include the stick) are not "intertwined" nor "co-dependent", they just happen to be able to be combined for a heck of a lot of functionality and were reviewed in that configuration.
--- Quote from: KevSteele on June 30, 2005, 03:44:33 pm ---Editor: "Ah, but you do need a 49-way joystick, don'tcha? ;)"
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Yes, of course. But not only that one. Please look up those words you used and you will see why your statement is incorrect.
--- Quote ---I guess it wouldn't be a review of a GGG product without some nit to be picked by Randy, though...
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Nor would it be a Retroblast review if Kevin didn't inject innaccuracies even into the work of others.
Anyway......horse=dead
RandyT
Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: KevSteele on June 30, 2005, 03:44:33 pm ---Editor: "Ah, but you do need a 49-way joystick, don'tcha? ;)"
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Actually, no - read my earlier post - you have 23-inputs so you could hook up a Happ Super and 19 buttons, it would just be an expensive way to do it. (But if you eventually wanted the 49-way stick but wanted to get something workable on a budget . . .)
--- Quote ---Like I said, I would have broken the products out into separate reviews but Ian felt that they worked best as a "system" - granted, you can always split the GP-Wiz/Happs 49 combo out from the rotary attachment, but I think everyone realizes that.
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I agree with reviewing all the products together.
--- Quote ---I guess it wouldn't be a review of a GGG product without some nit to be picked by Randy, though...
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Okay, I basically thought it was a cheap shot by Randy that Kev would respond to, but now I see Randy's point. You guys go back to your corners and play nice before Saint has to kill another otherwise useful thread. :police:
KevSteele:
--- Quote from: RandyT on June 30, 2005, 03:52:00 pm ---
--- Quote from: KevSteele on June 30, 2005, 03:44:33 pm ---I guess it wouldn't be a review of a GGG product without some nit to be picked by Randy, though...
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Nor would it be a Retroblast review if Kevin didn't inject innaccuracies even into the work of others.
Anyway......horse=dead
RandyT
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Glad I could be of service, and I'm amazed that I could, with one small sentence, destroy another review of your products. Makes me feel warm and tingly all over...
RandyT:
--- Quote from: KevSteele on June 30, 2005, 04:01:49 pm ---Glad I could be of service, and I'm amazed that I could, with one small sentence, destroy another review of your products. Makes me feel warm and tingly all over... ::)
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No, it was a good review. Not even you could sully that part. ;)
RE: Hole size
In a metal panel, you could use a much smaller hole. The size is going to change based on thickness. In a few days when the ball-tops become available, the sizes will change for the better as the shafts will be narrower.
As a side note, the new shafts should offer a tighter fit and better precision than the originals, but might take a small amount of tweaking by the end user. More details on this will follow....
RandyT
Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: KevSteele on June 30, 2005, 04:01:49 pm ---Glad I could be of service, and I'm amazed that I could, with one small sentence, destroy another review of your products. Makes me feel warm and tingly all over... ::)
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It was more than a small sentence, at least an average sized one. And RandyT didn't have any problems with the first sentence:
This is a bit of an unusual review, as it includes three products from three different manufacturers.
although now that I read it again, it's three vendors and four manufacturers, as Happ makes both the 49-way joysticks and the switches for the rotary adapters, but why be difficult.
so at least with RandyT, Kev got it half-right. That's better than RandyT would usually give him.
* Tiger-Heli asks where all the popcorn went?
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