OK, sometimes you get great deals, sometimes bad ones and other times, the deal makes you it's ---smurf--- and keeps ---smurfing--- you.
Awhile ago, I over paid for a pair of SNK LS-30 joysticks, a druin board and an Ipac.
My goal has been to put one joystick, the druin and the ipac into this:
http://www.arcadecab.com/Store/Single_Base_Details.htmAnd play a little Ikari Warriors when the mood hit me right. If all went well, then maybe add a second one for a friend (having the LS-30, I'd have to buy another druin and ipac).
Well, first the store stopped selling these right as I was about to order, then, months later when he's back I realize that the damn joystick is a metal mount only.
Even routing the damn thing to 1/5 of MDF would leave me with a very short stick. That's OK I think, I'm still doing it. I NEED this joystick.
I email Mike and tell him, do it man, I don't care if the joystick is short, I HAVE to have this.
Well, now it's 5 am and as I'm putting my stick back together again (after spending over an hour trying to figure out how to make the stick longer) I realize that the freakin' Druin board needs +5 of power. Hmm I think, funny I didn't notice that before...
Guess what, the GD Ipac doesn't have a +5 volt out on it!!!!!!! Freakin-frak.
Any idea's? Should I buy another encoder? Is there one out there that will allow me to get the power I need?
Damn, this is turning out to be the impossible joystick to get. I think I may end up selling it here and calling it a loss. Anyone have an idea to help me out?