Main > Main Forum

Black Joysticks?

Pages: << < (3/6) > >>

divemaster127:

I have the comps on my mame cab & my cocktail


protokatie:

I am lazy and pathetic, so my first sticks are Esticks that I got off of ultimarc. Cheap as hell, but seem more than worth it. Nothing like a stick you can install in a standard hole for a button... (I plan on upgrading sometime in the future, with a 4 player panel, and will use the Esticks as P3 and P4 with better sticks for P1 and P2)..

Something odd I noticed: Esticks are advertised as having medium resistance and travel, but it seems like they have hard resistance to me...(medium travel tho, so good for the range of games I intend on playing)

protokatie:


--- Quote --- I know it's a microswitch stick, so does that mean that a direction is either off or on?  No gradual or slow movement?

--- End quote ---

Yep, switch based joys are digital (ala NES controller or the hat button on a moedern controller). If you are looking for an analogue stick, switch based ones arent your thing. Then again, what games are you playing? Very few arcade games used analogue sticks, almost all were digital...

Vash:


--- Quote from: protokatie on April 27, 2008, 06:54:47 pm ---
--- Quote --- I know it's a microswitch stick, so does that mean that a direction is either off or on?  No gradual or slow movement?

--- End quote ---

Yep, switch based joys are digital (ala NES controller or the hat button on a moedern controller). If you are looking for an analogue stick, switch based ones arent your thing. Then again, what games are you playing? Very few arcade games used analogue sticks, almost all were digital...

--- End quote ---

Well, I knew most weren't digital, I just don't remember (what I now picture as) rabid clicking when I was playing them.  Is it just something specific to the comps. or is it prevalent in other MS joysticks?

protokatie:


--- Quote ---Well, I knew most weren't digital, I just don't remember (what I now picture as) rabid clicking when I was playing them.  Is it just something specific to the comps. or is it prevalent in other MS joysticks?

--- End quote ---

I presume you mean that you knew most arcade joys WERE digital...(IE with switches)

Regardless, the switches are on the otherside of the wood used to make the CP, and on top of that, how many arcades have you ever been to that were quiet enough to hear yourself think?

There are other switches out there that are quiet, there is a poster here who has in his tag line something about them. I never considered the clicking to be a problem. (Dont think I notice it with the audio from the game blasting away)

Pages: << < (3/6) > >>

Go to full version