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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: ddoyle1996 on March 27, 2003, 03:56:35 pm
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Can anybody with a J-stik tell me what the diameter of the shaft is? I'm thinking about using one of those to make a removable flight stick (using the standard Raider pro hack), and I need to know if I can use it with the Raider pro stick.
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ANDEEEEEEEEEEEE! :p
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I also would like to know if I can do a standard Raider Pro hack with a J-Stick or T-Stick as I would like to make my Tron stick change from 8-way for Discs of Tron to 4-way for Tron.
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This is what I'm planning. Hobby Lobby sells aluminum tubes up to 9/32" diameters. The tubes are soft and can easily bend, but the 1/4" tube fits inside the 9/32" tube very tightly. This gives me a pretty strong tube. It may be strong enough, but just to be safe I also plan on putting at least one more tube (a 7/32" tube) inside the 1/4" tube. Two tubes placed inside a third should be plenty strong.
The reason I am doing this is because no one else around here sells aluminum tubes. I like the 9/32" tube because the small plastic piece that comes out the bottom of the Raider Pro flight stick looks like it has a 9/32" hole in it. This means I can simply epoxy the tube into that hole. I also like the fact that the tube is hollow so you can run wires through it.
The only downside is the remaining parts of the e-stik that normally go on the shaft have bigger holes in them than the 9/32" shaft. I'm sure this could be fixed by placing tape around the 9/32" tube where those parts normally would be.
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j-stick shaft diam. approx 0.9cm (or just under 3/8 of an inch)
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I will definately be trying the raider pro hack with an E-stick.
8-way Discs of Tron, 4-way Tron, way to go!
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The Tron stick has been talked about before. Isn't it an 8 way stick? I seem to remember one of the big dogs on this board taking apart his Tron stick to explain how it was build.
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Perhaps that might be right but I thought you needed a 4-way joystick for Tron especially during the light-cycles. Can anyone else shed some light on this?
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I think it was an 8-way trigger stick with a diamond shaped actuator.. that way the primary directions are defined and the corners are available but less reliable and with a smaller 'sweet spot.'
I would just use the J-stick anyways.. short of buying real Tron sticks you'll find yourself out of luck, otherwise (and, hey, why not set up dual Js in 4-way for some Assault action? ;D).
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You most certainly love your Assualt kspiff, I played it the other day for the first time, not a bad game at all, but I need to try it with 2 x 4-ways.
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Yes, Assault is one of my favs.. Namco just has a way with their games (I would say they can do no wrong, except for that whole Hometek division :P).
I'm making some Raider Pro dual sticks, myself.. too bad I'll likely need to waste a set of Competitions to do it..
I remember when I first got my HotRod and was so excited to try my hand at some arcade authentic Assault..
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I'll just give you a minute for that to sink in.. ::)
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Let's just say my keyboard smells like feet now.
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Perhaps that might be right but I thought you needed a 4-way joystick for Tron especially during the light-cycles. Can anyone else shed some light on this?
See this thread: http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=44;start=0
I took apart a Tron joystick and measured the bottom actuator & restrictor. In a later thread, someone else posted that there is an upper restrictor, too, but on the joystick I had the upper one was so beat up the joystick didn't even contact it.
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It's done. I used 4 aluminum tubes (3/16", 7/32", 1/4", 9/32") and put them one inside the other. I used 4 because I have kids and knew it'd get beat up. I tried bending this myself and couldn't do it. I'm pretty sure the flight stick would break before the shaft bends.
The tutorial at mamecheats.fateback.com/tutorial.htm (http://mamecheats.fateback.com/tutorial.htm) shows how to cut the plastic piece coming out the bottom of the Raider Pro so you can insert a new shaft into it, but I did not do that. The 9/32" tube fit perfectly in the part of the plastic piece that this tutorial shows you cutting off. Instead, I just used some epoxy to cement the tube in that piece. I used the dremel to cut the tube to length.
The mamecheats tutorial uses a plastic stopper to control how high the flight stick sits on the control panel. I used a rubber grommet instead. The rubber grommet works just as well, and it actually does a pretty good job at keeping the joystick from rotating. I used the epoxy to cement it at the right position on the tube.
After that, I used the dremel to create a grove in the tube where the e-clip needed to be. I put the remaining pieces of the e-stik (spring and 2 plastic pieces) on the shaft and clipped the e-clip on and OH YEAH! I've got a Raider Pro flight stick on an e-stik base. I can switch from 4-way to 8-way easily, and the wires for the flight stick come out the bottom of the tube since it's hollow. Now I just have to finish the rest of my cab so I can use it.
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Thanks Oscar, super helpful as always.
Good work ddoyle1996 you will have to let us know what your joystick plays like once you have finished your cab.