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What specialty controller should be reproduced next?
u_rebelscum:
--- Quote from: Magnet_Eye on August 21, 2006, 04:44:30 am ---I always wish i could find a good way to play 720. Its rare to find those joysticks.
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Yes, but you'll have to hack mame to get one to work.
Mame switched to simulate the original controller with an analog joystick quite a while ago. Which works pretty well BTW, although the feel is not the same :-\.
Have you tried an analog stick since mame 0.85u1?
ahofle:
How about some way to get a tank or flight stick handle with 2-3 buttons (trigger + thumb buttons) attached to either a 49-way stick/GGG interface or Ultimarc's new analog stick? That's what I'm personally waiting for. Two of those sticks with a spinner in the middle would work for SO many games that I can't really play with my current setup: 2 way mode for battlezone/vindicators/etc, 4-way for tank games like assault, and a 'sort of 8 way' mode for tron, not to mention being able to use it for all the analog games like afterburner of course.
mark shaker:
RandyT: I hope that you found some inspiration in this thread! :-)
Just kidding! (Sort of.)
I think there have been a lot of good ideas. I would be all for a general purpose yoke or Trigger Grips with 8/4/2 way functionality, as well as most everything mentioned.
Of course the problem with all these is the engineering and tooling costs, not to mention the cost of doing anything is small quantities...
Still, if anyone is inspired: I wouldn't mind helping to defer the costs by pre-ordering.
- Mark
P.S. In case anyone is thinking: "Put-Up-Or-Shut-Up". I have. I make and sell Vectrex carts at cost, and at any one time I have between $3K and $5K tied up in inventory.
Glaine:
What about those joys like Akari Warriors and some football game had where the stick also has a rotating axis when you turn the stick in its socket?
Or a root-beer tapper handle? That might be easy to just build over a pushbutton so that when the handle is pulled the button is pushed.
These would be pretty low on my list to buy, but if you're going for original ideas I haven't heard anything on those. I agree with those above, after joys & pushbuttons - there is very little that I would call a commonly bought item for control panels.
JoyMonkey:
A good Wico leaf joystick replacement would be awesome. What is it that the cheap Chinese knock-off are doing wrong? Would adding a rubber centering grommet make them any better/more authentic?
I could machine Oscar style restrictor plates, but they would more than likely be pretty pricey and I don't have the original restrictors to use as a base. And I'm not sure if Oscar would be too happy about people selling knock-offs of his stuff anyway. And I'm incredibly lazy.