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New Product: Micro-Leaf™ Arcade Pushbutton Switches - GroovyGameGear
mccoy178:
Here is the best explanation I could find on google. The following words are not my own:
--- Quote from: Senator on September 24, 2007, 10:32:35 pm ---Can someone please explain to a noob the appeal of these over the cherries that everyone seems to have.
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"If you have to ask you wouldn't understand" - It's the sort of thing you either "get", or you don't. If you get it, you've got it, and if you don't it can't be explained to you. It's like breathing or football.
The most common thing I've heard this in reference to is Jazz with second runner up being religion. Sometimes it's used as a cop out to get out of what might be a tediously boring discourse, but most of the time it's inherently true: you have to come to the meaning yourself, or else there is no meaning to be had.
Senator:
So, you're suggesting I should buy some ??? :-\
Donkey_Kong:
--- Quote from: Senator on September 24, 2007, 11:17:21 pm ---So, you're suggesting I should buy some ??? :-\
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Senator,
Just read the product description again.
--- Quote ---Features:
* Fast actuation and provides excellent button sensitivity.
* Extremely short "reset travel" for rapid fire capability
* Specially engineered to allow advanced functionality with virtually all conventional microswitch-based arcade pushbuttons
including RGB-Drive™ outfitted Pushbuttons, NovaGem™ and other bottom lit Pushbuttons
* No more problems related to loud clicking, excessive resistance, long actuation/reset travel, dirty or mis-aligned contact points.
* Smaller control panel footprint. Contacts are vertical and will accept standard .187 Female QD's
* Switch is manufacturer rated at 1,000,000 mechanical cycles
* Tough Acrylic and Polyester Construction. Adapter Plate can be re-used.
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Organic Jerk:
--- Quote from: RandyT on September 24, 2007, 07:40:07 pm ---However, a joystick version is already planned.
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YESSSSSSSSSSS........
YESSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!
Kremmit:
Senator:
They're quiet, they're fast, they don't require much finger pressure. All the same as old-school leafswitches, the buttons for which are no longer being produced. But they don't need to be cleaned or adjusted like leafswitches, and they fit readily available microswitch buttons.
*disclaimer*
At least, that's the idea. Obviously nobody but the manufacturer has tried them out yet. But I'm willing to accept Randy's claims unless somebody with the actual product in hand has a contradiction.