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RAM Controls - Star Wars Yoke
Ummon:
--- Quote from: Timstuff on July 09, 2008, 02:43:37 am ---He's charging for both the box he built, and the "effort cost" of finding the yoke. If he was just selling the NOS yokes, they'd already be gone, UNLESS he was selling them for $600. ;)
It's simple really: if demand outweighs supplies, then find a way to bring down demand. In this case, he accomplishes that through charging an arm and a leg and requiring you to buy an extra that you may not necessarily want.
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That sounds ---smurfin--- ridiculous. Why offer a product at all then? Anyways, what demand? Given no yokes have gone for more than $200 in the last six months or more, that (strange) explanation is out the window. I think the dude's just appearing pretentious.
SOL: well, good. I'm curious, was it a PM exchange?
S0L:
Didn't do it via PM, I emailed direct via the RAM Controls sales address. I've had a few PM chats with Dave, though I don't think he's logged into BYOAC for a while.
I actually got a reply pretty much straight away - though to my works email address. I didn't see it till the following day since I'd gone home after sending it!
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wbassett:
Just out of curiosity, has anyone build a SW yoke based on these plans?
http://arcadecontrols.com/hosted/yoke/
I'd probably opt for the Happ handles like Timstuff mentioned over what this guy used, but mainly I think the interest would be how does this work and feel?
My 6 year old grandson and I just fired up Star Wars and played it with a Saitek ST290Pro and the game is definitely functional, but obviously doesn't have the same feel as I remember and have such fond memories of.
I'm kinda split on this in a sense...
If I was building a totally dedicated Star Wars cab, then yes I would want it to look exactly like the arcade. I'm going the modular panel approach, but it would still be nice to have the same look as well as the exact same feel the original yoke had, but functionality is also more important to me.
In a strange way I kinda like this one-
It strikes me that if the Xwing was real, this is more like what the flight yoke would look like, a bit thrown together and utilitarian over looks, I mean after all, the rebels had to use whatever they could get their hands on right? Kinda like us ;)
One thing about using an analog stick, at least the Siatek ST290 is it seems to be a bit 'too' responsive, so it's way too easy to whip past your target.
West Controls looks really nice, but honestly, I'm not paying that kind of money. I may actually make a yoke from the plans at the link I put at the beginning until David gets his finished and I know what his final price is going to be. Even though David is going to have a top quality product when he's finished, I hope it's not too expensive. I tried going to his website and it seems to be down. Did he change the url?
Anyone know what his estimated selling price will be when he's done?
Paul Olson:
I lucked out and got a gamecab yoke a while back for about $100 bucks on ebay. Still don't have it mounted yet, but I am going to try to get it done before next weekend (My niece and nephew will be visiting for a week, so I actually need to get this stuff finished :) ). It looks like it should function pretty close to the original. Until David has his available, I would keep looking on ebay. The prices were crazy for a while, but the last few I have seen went for around $150. I have heard that David has parts for them available now, so even a beat up one may be worth it if the price is right.
Off topic: If anyone here has a gamecab yoke, I am looking for a wiring diagram for it. I would like to avoid taking it completely apart to find out which wires go where. So if you have one, can you post it for me please? I also have the gameport cable for it and I won't be using it, so if anyone needs it let me know.
Thanks,
Paul
Ummon:
--- Quote from: pcolson on July 13, 2008, 01:25:53 am ---I lucked out and got a gamecab yoke a while back for about $100 bucks on ebay. Still don't have it mounted yet, but I am going to try to get it done before next weekend (My niece and nephew will be visiting for a week, so I actually need to get this stuff finished :) ). It looks like it should function pretty close to the original. Until David has his available, I would keep looking on ebay. The prices were crazy for a while, but the last few I have seen went for around $150. I have heard that David has parts for them available now, so even a beat up one may be worth it if the price is right.
Off topic: If anyone here has a gamecab yoke, I am looking for a wiring diagram for it. I would like to avoid taking it completely apart to find out which wires go where. So if you have one, can you post it for me please? I also have the gameport cable for it and I won't be using it, so if anyone needs it let me know.
Thanks,
Paul
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Wire it to what?