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trying to make an arcade stick with a 2mm throw
Turnarcades:
The Mag-stiks do have a very short throw, but for lightning-moves with a very solid feeltry the Suzo 500's. Regarded as a 'budget' stick and hated by many, it was found on most generic cabs when I was growing up and enables much easier move pulling on fighting games and when I went back to long-throw springy sticks I wondered what the hell happened to my game. It was particularly annoying on my favourite fighter KI as every dedicated cab had sloppy sticks and they were usually very worn. Never happened with the Suzos and when I built my first cab with these and played KI I found I was 10 times better than I ever was in the arcades.
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--- Quote from: Turnarcades on March 12, 2009, 10:28:25 pm ---The Mag-stiks do have a very short throw, but for lightning-moves with a very solid feeltry the Suzo 500's. Regarded as a 'budget' stick and hated by many, it was found on most generic cabs when I was growing up and enables much easier move pulling on fighting games and when I went back to long-throw springy sticks I wondered what the hell happened to my game. It was particularly annoying on my favourite fighter KI as every dedicated cab had sloppy sticks and they were usually very worn. Never happened with the Suzos and when I built my first cab with these and played KI I found I was 10 times better than I ever was in the arcades.
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yeah, i'm modding an old suzo stick. the type with the rubber centering grommit. i own about 20 suzo 500's, but i dont like the clunky feel of it, and suprisingly, the throw isnt small enough for me, but it without a doubt has the smallese throw i've seen. i also dont like the square restrictor.
i think the suzo 500 is 5mm, i want at least 2mm.
Turnarcades:
Unless the centre-ing mechanism is spot-on with little chance of returning off-centre, I doubt you'll get a throw that small without 'false movements' being detected if you fart too hard. Especially if you don't like the 'clunkiness' of the Suzos, you're not going to be able to do it with a soft-sprung stick as inevitably the centre-ing mechanism won't be as strong. Your only possible hope of doing something half close to this is to take a U360 (which feels loose but centres well), creating a custom restrictor plate and programming the actuation distance very low for each direction. Even then I imagine it won't be very long before wear makes false movements appear.
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--- Quote from: Turnarcades on March 13, 2009, 10:23:47 am ---Unless the centre-ing mechanism is spot-on with little chance of returning off-centre, I doubt you'll get a throw that small without 'false movements' being detected if you fart too hard. Especially if you don't like the 'clunkiness' of the Suzos, you're not going to be able to do it with a soft-sprung stick as inevitably the centre-ing mechanism won't be as strong. Your only possible hope of doing something half close to this is to take a U360 (which feels loose but centres well), creating a custom restrictor plate and programming the actuation distance very low for each direction. Even then I imagine it won't be very long before wear makes false movements appear.
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dont get me wrong the suzo 500 is my favourite stick. so the complaint i have about the 500 are minor compared to other sticks. the cluckiness feel is the square restrictor which i despise, not the spring, i prefer stiffer springs, infact the suzo 500 spring isnt stiff enough for my liking, i prefer the happ p360 spring.
my old style suzo doesnt use a sprng, it uses a rubber pad to center the stick which is far quicker and thus more reliable than a spring. it returns to the center instantly without bouncing.