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Wiring Leland spring joysticks
botez:
Question on this old topic - which Wingman are you hacking -- there are tons of different gamepads and joysticks that now go by that name.
If anyone has a writeup on how to do this hack or any advice to offer- I'd love to see it as I'm pretty terrible at these kind of things.
Thanks
Troy
jerryjanis:
I wired up 2 Leland spring analog joysticks using 1-Up's hack, using the MS SideWinder Dual Strike. It was very easy, and it meant that I could use the original pots from the arcade joystick.
Here's a picture of the setup:
Using 1-Up's instructions, the hack was almost too easy. It was very straightforward, so I won't try to complicate it by explaining it myself. If you run into any questions, though let me know and I can help you out.
I ended up getting several of the Sidewinder Dual Strikes for around $12 shipped apiece I think (ebay).
JayTea:
This is an old topic...new question -
I have succesfully hacked a dual strike to a leland stick (ala john elway QB).
When I use the Dual strike test program, everything works and reacts as it should.
Problem is I can't seem to get Mame to work with the stick correctly (sometimes the stick moves, sometimes it doesn't, when I release the ball isn't thrown...etc) ...anyone else had any toubles with this? I just wanna play John Elway QB....!!!
Thanks in advance.
JT
Brogner:
Wish I could provide some usefull input to this since I started it 3 years ago! If I'm not mistaken, you can change the x y settings in mame. You may be able to adjust the sensitivity of the stick by doing this. If your using mame32 you can do this by hitting tab and selecting analog joysticks or something like that. I've been able to get a trackball to work somewhat decently with Kickman doing this. I kind of forgot about doing this because I bought a world series and gave up on the mameing of the sticks.
jerryjanis:
Hmm... It's been a while since I have used the Leland sticks. I never tried them with the football game, only the baseball games (wseries is one of them). You might try it with wseries and see if you can get it to work in that game. In order for wseries to work, I had to remap the directions in Mame (that was many many Mame versions ago). If it works in wseries, but not in the football games, then maybe the driver isn't correct and would need to be updated.
Jake
BTW here's a mention of the Leland stick from the Mametesters site:
--- Quote ---I rigged up the controls for these games to my computer in my Mame cab. With a little bit of control mapping the controls work perfectly. It will always be a bug if you are trying to use a regular joystick. The "batting" control is an analog joystick placed on it's side so if you used an ordinary PC joystick you would move "left/right" to aim "up/down" and "forward/back" to swing the bat. The other problem is that the joysticks are spring-loaded so that the resting position is forward instead of being centered like a PC joystick.
So, I mean, you can play it with a PC joystick, but it's going to feel like the driver was written by a clown when in fact, it works like the original arcade machine. The only issue if you are using the original controls is that the directions need to be remapped.
- jerryjanis
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