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Can Anyone Review The New U360 8-Way Restrictor?
fjl:
Anyone have it that wants to share their opinions on it? I'm also concerned about how the joystick responds with a restrictor limiting its full movement. Won't it affect it for analog since it will no longer be able to reach and register the farthest points of movement on its matrix?
u_rebelscum:
Don't have a new restrictor, but...
--- Quote from: efjayel on December 02, 2007, 09:28:02 pm ---I'm also concerned about how the joystick responds with a restrictor limiting its full movement. Won't it affect it for analog since it will no longer be able to reach and register the farthest points of movement on its matrix?
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I've used the older restrictors, and as long as you tell ultraMap which restrictor you're using, you'll have full range of 8 bit analog (256 values). (The ultraMap will update the driver and set the correct calibration.) And with the u360's internal 14-bit precision, the 8-bit output will be just as smooth. And the 9x9 grid analog to digital mapping will also be correct.
The difference you do notice will be, of course, that the 256 values are "compressed" into a shorter physical distance, but that's expected.
fjl:
Is the distance difference really noticeable?
Donkey_Kong:
--- Quote from: u_rebelscum on December 03, 2007, 02:34:03 pm ---Don't have a new restrictor, but...
--- Quote from: efjayel on December 02, 2007, 09:28:02 pm ---I'm also concerned about how the joystick responds with a restrictor limiting its full movement. Won't it affect it for analog since it will no longer be able to reach and register the farthest points of movement on its matrix?
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I've used the older restrictors, and as long as you tell ultraMap which restrictor you're using, you'll have full range of 8 bit analog (256 values). (The ultraMap will update the driver and set the correct calibration.) And with the u360's internal 14-bit precision, the 8-bit output will be just as smooth. And the 9x9 grid analog to digital mapping will also be correct.
The difference you do notice will be, of course, that the 256 values are "compressed" into a shorter physical distance, but that's expected.
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Should be called the smart stick :)
Can't wait to get a monitor for my cab and fire up the 360's again.
Zobeid:
There is also an octagonal restrictor available. Since I would be using it as a 2 or 4 or 8-way stick the large majority of the time, it seems like the octagon could work really well. I would like to feel where the directions are.
Without a restrictor (and I imagine this would be true with the circular restrictor too), my hand's orientation to the stick tends to "wander" and it's easy to end up pushing diagonal when I thought I was pushing up, down, left or right. An octagonal restrictor ought to cure that.
I noticed UltiMap lets you configure the stick for no restrictor, a round restrictor, or a square restrictor -- but it doesn't have separate options for whether the square restrictor is turned to 4-way or 8-way position, and there is no option for the octagonal restrictor. I'm guessing if you had the octagon then you would configure it to circular?
Has anybody tried the octagonal restrictor plates and can report how they work and feel?
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