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Title: New Product: Versa-Micro™ User-Adjustable Arcade Switches - GroovyGameGear
Post by: RandyT on July 11, 2009, 12:51:44 pm: (http://www.groovygamegear.com/Store_Images/VMSplash600.jpg) (http://groovygamegear.com/webstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=71&products_id=328)

Have you ever wished you could turn down the volume of the "clicking" sounds made by regular microswitches? Did you ever wish you could increase the sensitivity and get that "hair-trigger" performance of leaf switches from the old days?

GroovyGameGear.com has answered your wishes with it's latest arcade control innovation, the Versa-Micro™ User-Adjustable Arcade Switch. The only standard footprint microswitch to allow users to tune performance specifically to their gaming style and preference. The Versa-Micro can be set from standard microswitch performance, to dead silent leaf-switch like performance, and everything in-between!

More info is available from the product description at the site. Click on the image to go there.

These are now options, with reduced cost, for standard HAPP buttons. They are also an option for the NovaGem buttons, and will soon be an option in the Electric ICE pushbuttons.

Thanks for reading and thanks once again to those who support GGG with their arcade controls dollars, which help to keep innovations like this one coming.

RandyT
Title: Re: New Product: Versa-Micro™ User-Adjustable Arcade Switches - GroovyGameGear
Post by: mrclean on July 11, 2009, 01:30:09 pm: sounds good.. send me 12x to test them :-)

Are these .187 or .250 ?
Title: Re: New Product: Versa-Micro™ User-Adjustable Arcade Switches - GroovyGameGear
Post by: Franco B on July 11, 2009, 01:36:27 pm: Nice Randy, nice!

So, if i'm reading your description right on your home page, the shorter the actuation = the lower the click volume?
Title: Re: New Product: Versa-Micro™ User-Adjustable Arcade Switches - GroovyGameGear
Post by: Bender on July 11, 2009, 01:37:22 pm: Quote from: mrclean on July 11, 2009, 01:30:09 pm
sounds good.. send me 12x to test them :-)

Are these .187 or .250 ?
from the picture looks like .187

Randy, what would you say the difference would be if you set these to have the same feel as the Micro Leaf's? (besides the footprint)
Title: Re: New Product: Versa-Micro™ User-Adjustable Arcade Switches - GroovyGameGear
Post by: RandyT on July 11, 2009, 02:09:18 pm: Quote from: mrclean on July 11, 2009, 01:30:09 pm
Are these .187 or .250 ?

.187". Thanks for the head's up. :) I've updated the description.

Quote from: Franco B on July 11, 2009, 01:36:27 pm
So, if i'm reading your description right on your home page, the shorter the actuation = the lower the click volume?

The "feel" (resistance) of the switch gets more linear and the reset distance shrinks as the switch becomes quieter. The actuation point moves somewhat higher in the stroke, but there is never any truncation in the action.

Quote from: Bender on July 11, 2009, 01:37:22 pm
Randy, what would you say the difference would be if you set these to have the same feel as the Micro Leaf's? (besides the footprint)

The Micro-Leaf virtually disappears beneath a pushbutton as "feel" is concerned. This allows for a much lighter pushbutton actuation than can be achieved with any other switch. The entire functional dynamic is different as a result.

RandyT
Title: Re: New Product: Versa-Micro™ User-Adjustable Arcade Switches - GroovyGameGear
Post by: Bender on July 11, 2009, 04:31:33 pm: you mean..... can't be achieved with any other switch?
Title: Re: New Product: Versa-Micro™ User-Adjustable Arcade Switches - GroovyGameGear
Post by: RandyT on July 11, 2009, 04:40:48 pm: Quote from: Bender on July 11, 2009, 04:31:33 pm
you mean..... can't be achieved with any other switch?

Read it again ;)
Title: Re: New Product: Versa-Micro™ User-Adjustable Arcade Switches - GroovyGameGear
Post by: jasonbar on July 11, 2009, 04:44:52 pm: Any price breaks for nuts possibly buying 76 or so of these...? ;D

http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff97/infernolab/Arcade%20Game/24controlpanelviewer.jpg

Thanks,
-Jason
Title: Re: New Product: Versa-Micro™ User-Adjustable Arcade Switches - GroovyGameGear
Post by: RandyT on July 11, 2009, 05:07:44 pm: Quote from: jasonbar on July 11, 2009, 04:44:52 pm
Any price breaks for nuts possibly buying 76 or so of these...?

Heh. I'll see if I can come up with some kind of quantity pricing for those who want to re-do a full panel with these.

RandyT
Title: Re: New Product: Versa-Micro™ User-Adjustable Arcade Switches - GroovyGameGear
Post by: Bender on July 12, 2009, 12:10:08 am: Quote from: RandyT on July 11, 2009, 04:40:48 pm
Quote from: Bender on July 11, 2009, 04:31:33 pm
you mean..... can't be achieved with any other switch?

Read it again ;)

would help if I could read eh? :laugh:

I'd be interested in the quantity pricing too ;D