Star Wars Yoke Help

[Itatemyquarter]

Is There Another Way to Hook Up A SW Yoke Other Than A Dual Strike Hack? I Looked Around, And I Didn't Find Much, But How To With Duel Strike Controller.

[bdsjake]

just yesterday wired mine up to Dave's AKI interface, worked very first time.

[unclet]

Any controller which offers a couple of 5K Pots connections and 4 buttons should work.

[Tiger-Heli]

AKI - http://dave.bit2000.com/aki.html
A-PAC - http://www.ultimarc.com/a-pac.html

More info than you want to read: http://www.mameworld.net/tigerheli/encoder/

[bdsjake]

one question for you that have hooked up a star wars yoke, I got mine working, tested it in windows control panel and seems ok.  But, I never hooked the "green" wire to anything, I would assume its a ground, but the "black" wire worked as ground.  What if anything did you hook your green wire to?

[Itatemyquarter]

Just The Answers I Needed, Thanks So Much To All Of Ya. One Day I'll Get My Stuff Up And Going. I'll Probably Try The A-pac. Thanks Very Much

[Minwah]

one question for you that have hooked up a star wars yoke, I got mine working, tested it in windows control panel and seems ok.  But, I never hooked the "green" wire to anything, I would assume its a ground, but the "black" wire worked as ground.  What if anything did you hook your green wire to?

The green wire is an earth wire.  Many arcade controls (analog sticks, trackballs etc), and I believe it is there to prevent a static build up from damaging any electronics.

I don't bother wiring it to anything, but if you are concerned you just need to wire it to an earth point.

[Tiger-Heli]

For those without a British-to-English Dictionary, earth is ground in US-speak.

[2600]

For those without a British-to-English Dictionary, earth is ground in US-speak.

Be careful how you generically label grounds.  We could get into a whole grounding theory, but grounds are not always equal.  Also, earth is commonly used for a type of GND in the US. 



As for using the Earth GNDs, for where I live, there is a lot of static in the winter.  I tie all my GND all metal compnents to earth. ie.spinner, Trackball, etc.  If not one, one touch and the PC will reboot and could potentially cause damage to it.

[Minwah]

For those without a British-to-English Dictionary, earth is ground in US-speak.

Yeah, I used 'earth' as opposed to 'ground' to avoid confusion with the common ground in the controller...'Earth' makes more sense in that context IMO.

[bjk7382]

Just The Answers I Needed, Thanks So Much To All Of Ya. One Day I'll Get My Stuff Up And Going. I'll Probably Try The A-pac. Thanks Very Much

[Itatemyquarter]

Just a friendly off topic question.

How did you get in the habit of capitalizing every word of every sentence? Just curious, it seems like it would be more difficult and slow to type.

I am really not sure why I capped every word. I normally don't do that. I just wanted to make sure I asked this question the right way. Make any sense, probably not.
I just love playing my games.

I am not sure how to quote. Ill get the hang of it , don't laugh.