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SlikStik Tornado Spinner versus Oscar Spinners
dhansen:
What we all are trying to do here is to recreate the arcade experience. Oscar spinners do this and do it well...they are more like a tempest/tron spinner than any other one on the market. The Happs trackwheel is made more for games like Arkanoid.
It's not about precision...it's about reality. If I wasn't so lazy, I'd rip out my hard drive spinner and buy an Oscar Pro right now...but alas... I AM lazy...
Doug :P
RetroBorg:
Thanks everyone for their input, it's nice to see people like Oscar still have ethics, at this stage I am still leaning towards an Oscar spinner, everyone seems so happy with his spinners, his spinners are a reasonable price and he seems to be a man of high integrity. I am not too bothered by the footprint of the spinner or how deep the spinner is, as I should have plenty of room in my planned control panel.
No one has commented of the up/down Discs of Tron style spinner, it would seem no one intends making one of these at this stage, which spinner would be easier in converting to such a spinner?
Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: RetroBorg on March 20, 2003, 04:33:30 am ---No one has commented of the up/down Discs of Tron style spinner, it would seem no one intends making one of these at this stage, which spinner would be easier in converting to such a spinner?
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1Up did a conversion with an OSCAR Model 1 - http://www.1uparcade.com/projects-oscarupdown.html
squizz:
Oscar.
are you looking into doing a strength design to add another bearing at the bottom of your model 3 spinner ?
as i think yours are great, but lack the strength like the tornado spinner has.
otherwise can you explain as to how your spinner will not have movement up and down while spinning left and right ?
( as i can only see the 1 connector to the spinner rod ) ?
Thanks
KevSteele:
--- Quote from: dhansen on March 20, 2003, 01:06:41 am ---What we all are trying to do here is to recreate the arcade experience. Oscar spinners do this and do it well...they are more like a tempest/tron spinner than any other one on the market. The Happs trackwheel is made more for games like Arkanoid.
It's not about precision...it's about reality.
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I'll agree that the Oscar spinners recreate the arcade experience, but I've got to put in some good words for the Tornado -- I've played with both types of spinners in my cab, and I found I like the Tornado better (Like I mentioned, this is compared to the Oscar model 1 -- the model 3 is fairly similar, so the feel is probably the same).
The Tornado is smooth and precise -- and yes, to some degree it is about precision. I had "backspin" with my Oscar model 1 that could not be "tweaked" away with settings. (I don't think the later models have this problem) The Tornado is amazingly accurate in tracking.
Personally I think you can't go wrong with either, but I've got to give the edge to the Tornado. It's a great design and "smooth as buttah" when spinning.
Whichever spinner you choose, make sure to get the solid aluminum knob - it makes a world of difference. Trust me on this one. ;-)
Kevin