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Joystick guides for both 4 and 8 way directions
RandyT:
--- Quote from: MJ on October 27, 2010, 10:10:43 pm ---I'm not aware of any "alternative" restrictors for Happ.
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How about now? ;D
Dartful Dodger:
--- Quote from: RandyT on October 28, 2010, 12:44:09 am ---
--- Quote from: MJ on October 27, 2010, 10:10:43 pm ---I'm not aware of any "alternative" restrictors for Happ.
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How about now? ;D
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Cool, can you post a direct link?
I went to your website and could only find the SUPER 4-way™ Precision True Restrictor.
RandyT:
--- Quote from: Dartful Dodger on October 28, 2010, 12:19:45 pm ---Cool, can you post a direct link?
I went to your website and could only find the SUPER 4-way™ Precision True Restrictor.
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At the moment, they are a "by request" item. I have some on the shelf and they are the same price as the 4-way restrictor.
RandyT
ragnar:
--- Quote from: BadMouth on October 27, 2010, 12:31:27 pm ---That would probably work pretty good for pacman and qbert,
but it might be a hinderance on fighting games where you have to roll the joystick.
I'm using octagon restrictors. I'm actually finding them good for 4 way games.
Push the joystick in the general direction and the wedge guides it to the center of that direction.
I didn't know how much I liked them until I went back to the regular 8-way restrictors.
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What is your impression from playing 8 way games? q-bert?
BadMouth:
--- Quote from: ragnar on October 28, 2010, 04:10:26 pm ---What is your impression from playing 8 way games? q-bert?
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Eh, it's weird. First off, the action on the Sanwa JLF's is so light, that it doesn't feel like an arcade stick to me anyway (at least not from my day).
The 8-way gate makes it feel even less like an arcade stick, but it does make you extremely conscious of exactly where the stick is.
When I do a quarter roll in a fighting game, I know that I'm doing it properly because I can feel it it go into the right notch, slide easy to the diagonal, then I can feel resistance when it hits the diagonal point and changed direction.
It feels like training wheels...but I need me some training wheels. :P Some day I'd like to have enough control where I can move the joystick just far enough to do the moves without having it pushed up against it's limits. Then I could take the training wheels off. Not sure I'll ever get there.
I hadn't played Qbert with it until this evening. I did a LOT better than usual.
I did move the joystick up and down instead of on the diagonals a few times,
but for the times I was in the right general direction, the gate guided me in.
On a side note, a while back I hooked up a Sanwa JLW with the restrictor set to 4-way.
I wanted to see if it was worthwhile to add a separate 4-way to my control panel.
It really didn't do anything for me. I didn't do any better at the games and it didn't feel any more authentic to me.
I think I'd need an old Wico for it to feel authentic to me.
Everyone has their own tastes though. Your results may vary.
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