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Rice Cube:
Hey everyone, i was wondering if I did this correctly because when i play, my joysticks seem a bit off. I have two Happ competition joysticks. I made a hole the size of a standard pushbutton and then mounted my joystick on the bottom of my control panel that is made from 3/4 plywood. didnt do anything with the joystick, just assembled it and drilled it straight into the plywood. everything looks like it is put in correctly, the joystick sticks out and when i rotate it, it doesnt touch any of the wood, but when i play with it, it just doesnt seem right. like i move the joystick to jump at my appointment but my player just goes straight up. all the controls work, just not exactly how they would on a real arcade cabinet. (i built mine from scratch with 3/4 plywood)

any help or suggestion are greatly appreciated. thanks!

HanoiBoi:
Have you tried several games?  Your example seems to be lacking information as in what game you're playing.  Usually jump is initiated by a button, not a joystick.  When you say your player just 'goes straight up', that kinda sounds correct (without better detail)...

Donkbaca:
Are you sure the joys are mounted square?  It could be that they are not, so when you are pushing what you think is the up diagonal you are only hitting the up microswitch

Rice Cube:
no the jump function is a button. lets use street fighter 3rd strike since that was the last game i played.

hey donkbaca, so the joystick should be positioned like a square and not a rectangle? because the joystick isnt a perfect square.

dfmaverick:
I think Donk was just wondering if up was straight up, etc.; I think that is what he meant by "square".

Doesn't matter which way you mount a rectangle joystick as long as you wire it up correctly.

One thing is to double check that the wires are going to the correct switch and not upside down as if you are looking at the joystick from underneath. (ie. Up could be down and vice versa.)

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