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Re: <News> - Tron Joystick Handles!

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MaximRecoil:

--- Quote from: brandon on November 15, 2007, 09:12:37 am ---yeah.. it is pretty funny!  what's also funny is that several "purist" restoring Donkey Kong cabinets went with Sanwa sticks instead...that should tell you something..  well, at least those are made in Japan ;)

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That's a contradiction of terms. In other words, if you use 3rd party parts when "restoring" a machine, particularly when OEM parts are readily available, you are not a "purist" by default. And technically this is not "restoring", it is "refurbishing".

I think the joystick with the best feel is a Happ Competition like I have on my SFII machine, but I wouldn't put one on a Nintendo machine, even if they were available in a restricted 4-way version.

I don't care for rubber grommet-based leaf spring joysticks like the Wico, but if I had a machine that originally came with them, that is what I would use.

The all-black joysticks that came on Karate Champ machines were downright awful, but a Karate Champ isn't right IMO without them.

But then, this isn't a restoration oriented site anyway. It is a "BYO" site...

The argument was never about "feel" anyway (except to people who were confused about what the argument was about). It was about how the word "broken" is actually used. People were claiming that a joystick with a broken microswitch was a "broken joystick", which is like claiming that a guitar with a broken string is a "broken guitar".

There is really nothing, aside from the microswitches and the spring, on a Nintendo joystick that can break from gameplay usage. The steel shaft obviously is not going to snap in two. The steel base obviously is not going to crumple. The 3/8" steel bearing is not going to erode away to nothing, or be torn loose from its integrated-into-the-base socket/race.

And the component that started the argument in the first place—the relatively thick steel restrictor plate—is not going to wear out...ever (unlike the restrictor on a 4-way Wico which can/will round out, creating an intermittent 8-way in the process).

ChadTower:

It's like a little boy saying that he broke his wookie after falling down - really, all he did was bend it.

shardian:
MEDIC!!! WE NEED A THREAD MEDIC OVER HERE!!!!

ChadTower:

Just toss the whole diorama into the fireplace.

bfauska:

--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on November 14, 2007, 03:53:22 pm ---
--- Quote from: ChadTower on November 14, 2007, 03:00:38 pm ---If you can locate a used stick it will be much cheaper than that.  These sticks are ---smurfing--- tanks so you're not going to find a broken one.  They aren't made by Nintendo.

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 ;)

* CheffoJeffo  waits for MaximRecoil to notice CT's comment ... pops some popcorn and pours a draft from the tap
My Tron stick cost me about $25 and the handle cost me about $55 (and included a CP and two-way stick). It takes some time, but the stuff is out there.

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I don't know why I'm contributing to the derail of this thread, but... WOW Cheffo, over the past several months since the "debate"  I've seen many jabs about the joysticks, and the only time I see somebody joke that it's going to flair back up is now, and you were right.  Any ideas about some up coming lotto numbers you'd be willing to share?

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