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Title: UltraStik 360 is acting weird, is this a hardware or software issue?
Post by: upper2bits on August 17, 2011, 11:27:12 am
Brand new, one works great one wont go fully to the right.  :censored:  Is this normal, is there something wrong with it?

U360 Arcade controller (http://vimeo.com/27818587)
Title: Re: UltraStik 360 is acting weird, is this a hardware or software issue?
Post by: Crono22 on August 17, 2011, 05:13:04 pm
Ya seems normal, I have the same problem with one of my ultrastiks. Its the magnet itself hitting the metal bracket. I dont use analog I have all the ultrastiks setup for 8way 4way etc. So a slight movement to UPR registers. Try moving the joystick very slowly and see if it will reach all the way.
Title: Re: UltraStik 360 is acting weird, is this a hardware or software issue?
Post by: upper2bits on August 17, 2011, 05:53:23 pm
Ya seems normal, I have the same problem with one of my ultrastiks. Its the magnet itself hitting the metal bracket. I dont use analog I have all the ultrastiks setup for 8way 4way etc. So a slight movement to UPR registers. Try moving the joystick very slowly and see if it will reach all the way.

I have mine set to 8way too and that's what I started looking into it. I was trying to play fighter games and I couldn't go diagonal so I started looking into it and switched my joysticks and the other one works fine.
Title: Re: UltraStik 360 is acting weird, is this a hardware or software issue?
Post by: DashRendar on August 18, 2011, 09:56:38 am
There was a known issue with the little ring that goes around the stick.  Some people were getting little shavings coming off that which was causing the symptom you're describing.

I think Andy changed the materials to address that.  There's a number of threads on BYOAC about this.

Anyway, that might be what you're running into.
Title: Re: UltraStik 360 is acting weird, is this a hardware or software issue?
Post by: syph007 on August 18, 2011, 12:08:15 pm
None of the four I've owned do that.  I'd ask Andy, he's pretty quick to respond to emails.
Title: Re: UltraStik 360 is acting weird, is this a hardware or software issue?
Post by: Gray_Area on August 23, 2011, 10:17:38 pm
This is an analog mode issue relative to the tracking of the magnet underneath, and where the shaft centers.