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Can anyone ID this joystick for me?
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u_rebelscum:

--- Quote from: Daviea on March 05, 2007, 04:26:00 pm ---A company back east hired me to reproduce 500 of these little joysticks in December.  I just finished the job and discovered that the company is no longer in business.  I was paid, so I didn't eat it on the deal.  Anyhow, nobody ever told me what the joystick was for and I don't personally recognize the part.  I only took a single NOS part and reproduced it.  I took a picture showing the NOS part on the left and the REPRO part on the right.  A quarter is also pictured for size reference.  Can anyone ID this part for me? 
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My guesses:

Could it be one of those snapsticks in World Series and the like?  IIRC the spring(s) was(were) mounted external to the case.  There were two competing models of the the snapsticks: a closed box with the POTs on the inside of a black box case, and ones sort of like yours.

Another guess is a (newer) repro of the "gamepad sticks" on the Quasimoto Control panel.


--- Quote ---Incidentally, it uses 150K pots.  Tell me this isn't a dead-on reproduction!  :-)

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IIRC, the snapsticks used 50K POTS.  Maybe the quasimotos?
Kremmit:
Those aren't the Leland snapsticks, and I think the Quasimodo is self-centering.  I've never seen an arcade stick that looked like that, and the Leland sticks are the only ones I can think of that were even close to that size.  (they're bigger)

I also think that there's a (admittedly small) market for self-centering sticks like the ones on the Quasimodo.  As more modern console emulation comes onboard, like PS2 and Xbox, some cab builders are going to want to try thumbsticks on their control panels.  Quasimodo won't sell theirs, the dirty dogs.  Won't sell their analog buttons, either.
horseboy:
It looks a lort like the joystick discussed in this thread.



I bought one with the intentions of seeing if I could get it to self center and interface it with a ps2 controller. The place I bought it from sold electronic music equipment, I think, so this joystick may have something to do with that. If you could get that thing to autocenter and some smart fellow could figure out how to get it to work with a ps2 controller, then you might have something that quite a few people around here might want. I would probably take a few if that were the case.
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