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Title: Flight Stick
Post by: HaRuMaN on January 05, 2004, 03:41:26 pm

Has seen one of these?  I am thinking of modifying it for use with MAME for games like Afterburner and Star Wars.

It has a male type socket connector, anyone know what the pins are?

Title: Re:Flight Stick
Post by: HaRuMaN on January 05, 2004, 03:43:16 pm

Ok lost the pics somehow, here is the stick:

Title: Re:Flight Stick
Post by: HaRuMaN on January 05, 2004, 03:45:33 pm

and here is the connector:

Title: Re:Flight Stick
Post by: menace on January 05, 2004, 03:53:43 pm

maybe see here--you could always hook up a meter to it and see what reads what.

http://wired.hard.ru/data/pin_GameportPC.shtml

Title: Re:Flight Stick
Post by: GamingGreg on January 06, 2004, 03:29:46 pm

I've seen these and I believe it's a standard analog PC joystick.  The adjustment dials for the X and Y axis, would suggest this as well.

Title: Re:Flight Stick
Post by: PacManFan on January 06, 2004, 05:03:27 pm

I've got 2 of those sticks, That large wheel on the left on the base is the throttle control, it's a 3 axis stick interfacing to a standard pc gameport.

-PMF

Title: Re:Flight Stick
Post by: HaRuMaN on January 06, 2004, 09:42:03 pm

cool... I paid 2 bucks for it, figured it may be useful... :-p

Title: Re:Flight Stick
Post by: Tailgunner on January 07, 2004, 09:05:29 pm

Quote from: HarumaN on January 06, 2004, 09:42:03 pm

cool... I paid 2 bucks for it, figured it may be useful... :-p

Ya did good, those were $50 new. To give CH credit I've got three of them and and unlike my Thrustmaster stuff I haven't ever managed to wear one out. Only gripe is the skinny trigger button, you'll end up with a sore finger from it.

I did manage to wear out one of the pots, but seeing as how they added a spare (the throttle pot) you can swap it out with an axis pot in short order.

Title: Re:Flight Stick
Post by: StephenH on January 08, 2004, 12:27:33 am

Just plug it into the gameport.  MAME supports gameport in.

If you need to extend the cable, you may be able to get by with a monitor cable for an older mac, that routs all 15 pins through.