Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: cbmeeks on December 15, 2004, 04:39:49 pm
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OK, this has been asked a trillion times but everyone seems to have different opinions...imagine that!! lol
Anyway, I am going to order a couple of joysticks...I want 4-way action and am ONLY going to play classics (Dig Dug, QBert, etc)
What should I buy?
I don't like clickyness but aren't leaf switches hard to find?
Where/who should I get them from?
Thanks!
cb
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all the Wico leaf sticks ive got were used. Dont know if you can get em NOS anywhere.
Try ebay .
If you decide to use clicky sticks, i like the T-Stick plus. Its a short throw but switchable from 4 to 8 way very easily.
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several people have bought nos wicos from nicade on ebay but i don't know if he has 4 ways.
if you end up going with microswitches, i'd go with the ms pac man reunion stick.
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Leaf switches aren't THAT hard to find...
http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=13717&item=6138895628&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW ;D
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several people have bought nos wicos from nicade on ebay but i don't know if he has 4 ways.
He does, I bought one from him a couple days ago.
edit: oh and to answer your question, a Wico four way leaf is almost certainly what you'll want for this application IMO.
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I have 2 wico 4way leafs (got new from www.videoconnect.com (http://www.videoconnect.com) years ago when they where cheap (14 bucks each). They are now $29.
But I still think that the mspacman revo joysticks are better. I like the smaller throw myself. And they are cheaper (for new)... but requires a mounting plate. www.therealbobroberts.com (http://www.therealbobroberts.com) has them for 20 bucks + 10 bucks for the mounting plate... (btw, get the normal mounting plate... its flat... don't understand the pacman one)
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I have 2 wico 4way leafs (got new from www.videoconnect.com (http://www.videoconnect.com) years ago when they where cheap (14 bucks each).