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Ideas on a homemade 4 way restictor
1UP:
Here's an idea:
How bout a mounting plate like Oscar's underneath the panel, with a slot that this goes into? Then you just hinge up your panel, slide a locking lever back and forth, and there you have it. Maybe it could have 3 shapes in it, one of them square for Qbert? ;D
darkmanx:
thats about the best idea i have seen. i will have to try it out a little later
Lilwolf:
Great idea.
1) but things to think about. You have to make it stable and non-moving while playing.
2) If it's not exactly centered, it will not work (it will allow diagonals).
3) it has to be able to move between the screws holding the joystick up.
You might have to find a good set of rails might make it work. Then I could also see having on the bottom a tab that comes out that would hang out the front of the control panel to allow you to slide it back and forth.
1UP:
I was thinking of a lever that maybe you pull up to unlock it from some slot it locks into, slide it over, and lock it in a different pos. I'm sure if I walk around Home Depot long enought, I'll find something... Like Oscar's, it would need a mounting plate that locates the whole works properly in respect to the joystick. It might also be mounted below the joystick.
erik:
Has anyone tried making a simple circuit?
From Scott's Unicade http://home.austin.rr.com/shumate/unicade/controls.htm:
Wire Joysticks
The middle two joysticks and top-fire buttons are wired the same way as the buttons. The outer two joysticks, P1 left and P2 right, are wired to a circuit I designed to allow me to select between 8-way, 4-way, and diagonal modes. The circuit works via a switch mounted on the control panel. When the switch is in 8-way mode, the signals that come from the joysticks pass through the circuit unaltered. When the switch is in diagonal mode (i.e. Q-bert mode), a logical AND function is applied so that only the diagonals are registered. When the switch is in 4-way mode, P2 right, which is a 4-way joystick, takes over the inputs from the P1 left joystick The inputs normally received from P2 right are disabled