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New Product: Ultimarc UltraStik 360 Analog/Digital Mappable Joystick
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Tiger-Heli:

--- Quote from: Dreamwriter on July 04, 2006, 12:25:51 am ---Ack!  One of my Ultrastik 360's stopped working.

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Does it show up in the Hardware List in Device Manager.  If so, try removing it and then plugging it back in.

(Just guessing, though).
Kangum:

this thread is way to confusing for me. lets say you have the controller mapped 8 way with no restrictor plate. In a 4 way game it wont see the diagnals so you get a dead zone. If your front end switches the mapping from 8 to 4 on the fly and you are not using a restrictor plate how is the situation any better. the dead zone is still there.


joys are getting to complicated :(
1UP:

--- Quote from: Kangum on July 07, 2006, 06:13:30 pm ---
this thread is way to confusing for me. lets say you have the controller mapped 8 way with no restrictor plate. In a 4 way game it wont see the diagnals so you get a dead zone. If your front end switches the mapping from 8 to 4 on the fly and you are not using a restrictor plate how is the situation any better. the dead zone is still there.


joys are getting to complicated :(


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That's one of the great things about this stick, there really is no deadzone if you are using it in 2 way or 4-way, provided it is mapped properly.  It is not the same as using an 8-way microswitch stick and just ignoring diagonals.  Basically you have 4 wedge-shaped areas mapped to be either up, down, left, or right.  When you ar pushing up, then begin moving left, it still registers as up until you are a little bit past the corner, then it switches immediately to left.  Basically, just like the way a 4-way works.  I do think you will want to use this with a 4-way restrictor though, it makes it much easier to snap straight from one direction to another.  I would still proably keep a dedicated 4-way like the J-Stick in addition to using the Ultrastick, which is probably better suited as an 8-way/Analog stick.

If the above is confusing, go back and look at some of RandyT's diagrams and see if that makes more sense.  :)
Kangum:
your explaination is still quit good and i appreciate the fact you took the time to post something. the clicking of my tstick is really getting to me and ive been considering something else. I would have liked to get a wico leafswitch but they are scarce and usually fought after.

any chance this will have switching 4 way to 8 way on the fly like the tstick only without the clicking. that would really rock. maybe a revision down the road. one can only hope.


Tiger-Heli:

--- Quote from: Kangum on July 07, 2006, 08:53:45 pm ---any chance this will have switching 4 way to 8 way on the fly like the tstick only without the clicking. that would really rock. maybe a revision down the road. one can only hope.

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Why?

I mean maybe I misunderstood, but with the T-Stick you have to either lift and turn the stick or you have to flip a lever.

With this you will be able to simply have the stick be in the correct mode without having to do anything (once you set up all the software correctly).
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