lemme get this straight (rotary)

[muttonchop]

i have a new love for these rotary stick games.  lets say i get a hold of a pair, what EXACTLY will i need?

1. sticks
2??

had a little trouble with searching, then again, im retarded, so dont be too mad if this is a crazy known answer.

[biocrack]

1 - Joystick

2 - and interface between the joysticks and the encoder (ipac, keywiz,etc), i recomend druin's interface

3 - have fun !

i hope this helps you

[muttonchop]

hmmm what encoder?

[Timoe]

Get a Keywiz encoder for for our joysticks and buttons from

www.groovygamegear.com

Or an IPAC2 keyboard encoder from www.ultimarc.com

Then get Druin's Rotary Interface from http://connect.to/rotary

You can also get a tutorial or instructions from druins website

[Nannuu]

I assume you are talking about mechanical rotaries (ie Ikari Warriors, Heavy Barrel).

[Nannuu]

I think you still need an encoder with the 49-way route.  Druins will take up a lot of inputs so you'll probably need a second encoder just for buttons. 

[Timoe]

Druins board should only take up 4 inputs.

Player 1 clockwise
Player 1 counterclockwise
Player 2 clockwise
Player 2 counterclockwise

[muttonchop]

ugh, so the druins board is for the twisty part...is it possible to wire these suckers to an optipac?  already have one of those,,,

[Timoe]

Fine then, just use a spinner and a joystick.   

[Timoe]

The mechanical rotary will not work with an opti-PAC.  The OPTICAL Rotary Sticks might though but I dont know if that will allow you to play Ikari or not.

[muttonchop]

that sucks a big one


http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,20018.0.html

yep, looks like im sticking with that.

although there are 2 snk sticks on ebay for cheap with no bids.....

=///


still like 75 dollars i dont want to spend, then i need to make a new control panel, than i have to redo some wires to make it swappable.....


/wah

[Nannuu]

If you get optical rotaries you can play Ikari with those.  It just doesn't have the same feel as the clicky mechanical.  You can also use them as a spinner.  So you'd have a dual spinner setup.  Granted the spinner joystick is not the greatest spinner in the world either.

[muttonchop]

ive been researching and i am going to get opticals soon.  ill also try to get a nasty spinner.


what feels better, a nasty (that sounds so bad =( ), or an easyarcadesolutions?

[gmorse]

I caught this link a couple days ago and as luck would have it had a pair of T-Stick Plus arrived on Friday.   Spent $12 on parts and the better part of this afternoon putting together the rotary mouse hack  and what do you know, it works like a charm.  Took a little tweaking and a bit of frustration, but in the end it was well worth the time.  I was able to get further in Heavy Barrel than I had ever gotten before; scored 75000 in Discs of Tron (which was about what I scored on average in the arcade); tempest was very playable; pretty much every decent rotary/spinner/driving game was playable from APB to Ikari.

Now if I can only get a trackball hack to work, I'll be in business.