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atomikbohm:

--- Quote from: arzoo on February 26, 2009, 08:55:17 am ---I really liked the feel of the 49-way, but it doesn't work well as an analog stick.

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What sort of issues did you have when using 49-ways as analog sticks? 

atomikbohm:
I just reread the thread and I don't think I'm painted a clear picture of my motivations and Ideal CP.  I was hoping to build a 4 player CP that would be able to play just about every joystick based Mame game.  With that as a starting point I discovered the rotary hack for Happ 49way sticks.  I envisioned p1 & p2 having 49-ways with an optical rotary hack (think MarkOates adaptors with opticals) and p3 & p4 with straight 49-ways (I don't think there are any games that use more than 2 rotaries). 

Now back to reality.  I've been reading in the forums all about U360s and how great they are.  Which begged the question why wasn't I hearing anything about the 49 ways?  If the 49-ways don't have all of the capabilities I'm looking for or the U360s offer so much more I'd rather find out about it now than after I invest the time & money.



--- Quote from: severdhed on February 25, 2009, 01:45:34 pm ---...also, you better have one heck of a PC to put in there if you want to play Blitz in Mame...  i have a p4 3.0ghz, 2gb ram and a radeon 9600xt and i can't play blitz at full speed. if i recall correctly, that requires a core2duo OC'd at around 4ghz to get it to run at full speed.

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The reason I'm finally building a CP and then a Cab is, after 5 years with the same PC (that wasn't cutting edge even then) I've finally decided to get a new computer !!! Bwa ha ha ha  >:D (that and the wife said I could  ;D) I'm going to be getting an Intel i7 920, 6 gigs of ram and a decent PCI-E vid card in a month or 2.  I assume that should be more than enough to run blitz and the more recent Gauntlet games.  Right?
arzoo:

--- Quote from: atomikbohm on February 26, 2009, 03:03:26 pm ---
--- Quote from: arzoo on February 26, 2009, 08:55:17 am ---I really liked the feel of the 49-way, but it doesn't work well as an analog stick.

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What sort of issues did you have when using 49-ways as analog sticks? 

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Here's when I realized the 49way did not work well as an analog stick - I started playing Food Fight with the 49 in raw mode and I was struggling with the game (aiming problems). Still, I managed to get on the high-score board. Now, if you recall how Food Fight lets you enter your initials - the letters in the alphabet are in a circle and you have to throw (aim) food at each letter. With the 49way it's not possible to select each individual letter. Using the u360 - no problem :)
atomikbohm:
I wonder if the soon to be released Gp-Wiz 49 will address this issue ... at least I'm really hoping that it does.  In an e-mail from RandyT the shared that the new version will handle 2 49ways per board (4 player would only require 2 Gp-Wiz 49)  Hopefully the price wan't change  ;D
arzoo:
There's one other thing I'll mention about the GPWiz49 - this is a minor software gripe. The app that Randy wrote to set the GPWiz49 mode cannot be run totally silent - it still seems to get focus while it's active. So when I used it with MaLa for example, the Windows task bar would display each time the GPWiz49 mode changed. Just something to keep in mind.
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