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MaximRecoil:


--- Quote ---One last thing; in a game like T&F, where accurate alternation is as important as speed, isn't being able to know for sure that you have made the press, through the tactile feedback and/or "click" of the microswitch, a good  thing?
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I'm no T&F player. We had it down to the laundromat around '84 but after 1 or 2 tries I didn't care for it and much preferred Karate Champ and Punch-Out. But anyway, I have a feeling that people developed a certain technique if they played the same machine long enough and probably any change to the buttons, incuding a new set of leaf springs, or even a readjustment of the existing ones would have thrown them off. So maybe for the people who couldn't do well on T&F when going from leafs to microswitches; the problem wasn't so much the microswitches in and of themselves, but simply the change to something different.

I always hated when anything was changed on a machine that I was already used to. I never cared for any games where rate of fire/button pressing was important so button changes never affected my gameplay much but it certainly irritated me.

thebrownshow:


--- Quote from: RandyT on December 23, 2005, 08:27:01 am ---So the solution is to simply remove the spring from the button and let the internal spring of the microswitch do the work.  This also decreases the throw of the button, at least in the case of the HAPP and IL designs, as it eliminates the .030" space between the actuators of the button and microswitch.

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Has anyone else actually done this?  Sounds like an interesting theory.

erictrumpet:

I must admit when I first got into mame and bought my first controls, I was in love with the microswitches. Yes the clicked, but to me the reliability was worth it. The click doesn't really bother me anyway, since I am wailing on the buttons so hard and screaming at the game so loudly that a little extra clicky sound is not even heard. :) Anyway, my favorite game back in the day (and still today) is Galaga, and I used to know which machines in town had "a good fire button" or a "bad" one. Well, microswitches changes all that. All the buttons on my CP feel exactly the same, no adjustment necessary, and they will never change or wear out. I kinda feel the same way about my monitor; I use a PC monitor, and I apply scanlines and vector flicker and stuff like that to give it the old look, but overall I prefer the modern, cleaner look. So maybe microswitches are okay. Not all modern advancements are bad. I mean, do any of you guys still use rotary phones for the tactile satisfaction of turning the dial to call your mother? :)

Eric.


Jabba:

Yeah, I'm not exactly which spring to remove. Do you open up the Micro Switch?

Jabba:


--- Quote from: erictrumpet on December 23, 2005, 10:47:31 am ---I mean, do any of you guys still use rotary phones for the tactile satisfaction of turning the dial to call your mother? :)

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Uhhhh, yeah! Do you have a problem with that ?  ;)

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