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Top Fire Joystick - seeing if anyone interested....
RayB:
--- Quote from: RobotronNut on March 21, 2006, 09:07:44 pm ---i've never used a top-fire, but they just seem cumbersome to me. they don't seem like they'd be very good for trigger games, because your thumb is not as agile as your trigger finger. and you can't grip the ball top when you're pushing the button, so you have to grip the thin metal shaft.
they also don't seem like they'd be very good for non-trigger games, because you have the button sticking into your palm.
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The buttons I put on mine are pretty low profile. They are rounded and stick up only 3/16th". Causes no problem at all. I've been playing alot of Robotron with em, and I don't even notice them there.
As trigger sticks, they aren't ideal, but it's a great compromise for a small control panel. There is no other way to play Tron for example (one hand on the stick, one on the spinner... there'd be no other way to fire, unless you had a foot pedal!)
RobotronNut:
--- Quote from: RayB on March 22, 2006, 02:11:40 pm ---The buttons I put on mine are pretty low profile. They are rounded and stick up only 3/16th". Causes no problem at all. I've been playing alot of Robotron with em, and I don't even notice them there.
As trigger sticks, they aren't ideal, but it's a great compromise for a small control panel. There is no other way to play Tron for example (one hand on the stick, one on the spinner... there'd be no other way to fire, unless you had a foot pedal!)
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i can see that they'd be a good compromise for saving space (and money).
it still seems to me that the tron cocktail stick would make that compromise even better, because it would be better as trigger stick and still just as good as a plain joystick.
it may not be possible to make one as inexpensively as a top-fire, though, because it would have to be restricted from rotating somehow.
i hope you won't be offended by my musings here. i haven't used any of the sticks in question, except the trigger stick. i'm just on an on-going quest for wisdom, knowledge, and the truth...
RayB:
--- Quote from: RobotronNut on March 22, 2006, 03:05:43 pm ---it still seems to me that the tron cocktail stick would make that compromise even better, because it would be better as trigger stick and still just as good as a plain joystick.
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Yes, you are right. It would be the ideal.