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I need help finding a good 8 way joystick
OSCAR:
A year ago, I would have said that I would have died with a Competition in my hand, that
paigeoliver:
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Even that said, I still think the P360
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Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: OSCAR on May 29, 2003, 07:20:36 pm ---An old time tech that I know told me that the Comp?s are even better if you set them up modified as Midway used to have Happ do them. I tried this, and I agree that this makes the Comp even better! Midway spec'd the heavy duty spring and D41 type microswitches [available through Happ]. The big difference with the D41 switches is that they activate about 0.025" lower than the standard switch Happ uses, and besides the D41?s are higher quality switches. This makes the overall stick favor the 0, 90, 180 and 270 degree positions where most 8-way sticks tend to favor the diagonals. The net result is that they are decent with 8-way games and 4-way stick games, too.
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Got bored and surfed Happ's website at lunch and called them also.
FYI -
The standard Comp joystick is P/N 50-6070-1X (X is handle color code). They are $13.05 from Happ or about $9 from Bob Roberts.
These come with 95-0733-01 switches (4) - $0.89 and a 95-1309-00 Spring -$0.29
The D41 switches are P/N 95-4114-00 - $3.05 and the H/D spring is 95-1309-01 - $0.42
Happ sells a Comp with the H/D spring and D41 switches for $17.70 P/N 50-6071-1X (X is again color code).
I will probably E-mail Bob Roberts sometime later and see if he can get these, but Happ sells them already put together, if anyone's interested.
Tiger-Heli:
Update: I e-mailed Bob Roberts about ordering or offering these and he sent back the following:
"No. I already stock the springs for those who want to change them & I never go near gold contacts... handle too little a current & blacken in a heartbeat, at least here in Louisiana, anyway, and the scope shows up all their miss-fires once blackened."
FWIW
EDIT - Not to contradict Bob, but his background is in genuine arcade cabs, not cabs running MAME on a PC, it's possible the +5V that an encoder uses would cause the switches less wear than an actual arcade cabinet would.
Babu:
Umm why dont you get some of those wico joysticks u can switch between 6 to 4 way and they are dirt cheap.
Allthough the word is that wico joysticks have very low quality but I think is a risk worth taking.