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OPINION: Best 4/8 way stick?
TOK:
I got T-Stick +'s which were great for ease of switching, but I wasn't crazy about the short stiff throws, and neither was anyone that tried them. I ended up taking them out and installing Happ's Competitions. I preferred learning to play 4 way games in 8 way mode with them to using the T-Sticks.
The newbies that tried playing stuff with the T-Sticks hated them. Gamers adapted quickly, but still didn't like the feel.
Not sure if that info will be helpful or not, but there it is. :)
Edit to add... If I was to do it again, I would just add a single dedicated 4 way and wire it to stick 1. Don't think there are enough games that use multiple 4 ways to worry about more than that. Since you're doing a new build from scratch and sticks are cheap, that's the route I'd go.
ChadTower:
Not a bad idea... I'm trying to do it without altering the steel CP much, but maybe drilling one hole is doable.
TOK:
My buddy added an extra stick to a steel panel and we used one of these to make a perfect hole. You drill a small pilot hole, put one side of this on each side of the panel and tighten it down. It cuts a perfectly circular hole. The one we had used a standard 9/16" socket not an allen key, but this gives you a pic to get the idea.
It's just called a sheetmetal hole punch.
ChadTower:
Awesome.
Lilwolf:
So nobodys going to mention a happs 49 way + GP49 encoder?
I hear they are the best all around joystick once they are broken in. Not the best for fighters, but still very good.
I have different control panels for each. So I would vote for a happs super, and a happs pacman reunion stick...