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Brogner:

Hello all, I've seen this question asked but not answered.  I have a couple of the spring joysticks used in world series, John Elway quarterback, and other Leland games.  would like to incorporate them into my cp.  I've been trying to hook them up to an optipac but no luck.  ???  Anyone know how to wire these or have any examples to go by.  Havent seen any on BYOAC yet. Would appreciate any help.

Brogner


kspiff:

I believe that the Leland spring joys use potentiometers.  The Opti-Pac is a device for connecting [certain] optics boards (like in a mouse or trackball; the devices that read the little notched discs).  To rig up a joystick with potentiometers, you may be able to use Jude's Star Wars yoke hack as an example (or any article on hacking a pot or analog joystick to connect to a gameport) or perhaps 1UP's Dual Strike USB hack.

You'll probably have to change the potentiometers on the joys either way.

Oh.. and btw.. are these normal analog joysticks with 2 pots or single axis with 1 pot?  Had always been curious, seems like they are single..

Lilwolf:

They are 5k pots (not that I know from experience.  But when I was looking for arcade analog controllers, my ebay search had 5kpots and these would come up all the time).

So the 1up hack will be your best bet.

Brogner:

Thanks for the info guys, will check out 1ups hack.  Kspiff, it does have 2 pots on the joystick. 1 for each axis.  Thats why I was hoping the optipac would work on it because of the X&Y control. So glad  BYOAC is here to the rescue!!  :)  

metzer:

I've had great luck hacking a Logitech Wingman for use with these Leland sticks.  The pots fit perfectly.  This is just the basic Wingman, which you can find on Ebay easily for a buck or so.  Problem is, some of these sticks have threaded pots (which fit nice and securely) and some don't (which fit loosely and would probably require some glue to stay put).  It took me four purchases to get two sticks with the threaded pots.  Sort of a Russian Roulette.  

I like hacking these sticks because they are VERY easy to take apart and just use the existing cable to the game port.  No soldering, etc.  The Leland sticks are also very easy to take apart, pull off the pots, and replace with the new pots from the Wingman.  Just hook up to the game port, calibrate, and away you go.  

I'm in the final stages of securing mine to my attachable/optional control panel that has two of these sticks, another analog stick for Food Fight, two LS-30's for Ikari Warriors, and a homemade Star Wars yoke (not pretty but gets the job done).  btw, I used the handles from these Wingman sticks to act as the handles for my yoke.  They don't look half bad.  Makes the homemade yoke extremely cheap in price.  After picking up a Microsoft Dual Strike cheap on EBay for hacking into the yoke, I'll bet I didn't put but $10-15 extra dollars into it.   I'll slap a picture out here one of these days if I get around to it.

Jim

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