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harveybirdman:
You can Lechuck. That's what I did for Qbert on my setup.

mgb:
  Mental,
      The j-stik is discontinued but I didn't think the Sanwa Jlw was.

  Gkarnik,
    I'm not sure why you'd want an analog for Qbert its the diagonals you want for that game. Though I suppose analog would work. I think where a u360 helps with that is the mapping.

LeChuck,
   The way I set my panel up is with 2 controllers, the left one being a JLW with a round restrictor so its just for 8-ways and then my right controller has the 4-way, 8-way square restrictor and I basically keep it in 4-way mode. When I need to use it for Robotron or for a 2nd player for a fighter or something, I just switch it to 8-way then.
  I compared the JLW and Omni2 only because I originall had a JLW for the right controller and I wanted an easier way to switch modes but I didn't want pay for a U360 so I got an Omni2. Altogether I'd say its close to the JLW but I took mine apart and the JLW definitley is a little better build quality. When I mounted the Omni2, it was binding up a bit, but this might have been my fault. I took the modified parts from the Omni2 and put them on my JLW and reinstalled it along with the soft switches from the Omni2 and its been great (super quiet too).

I'm probably gonna add a switch and leds to indicate which mode the right stick is in.

Mental:

--- Quote from: mgb on September 21, 2012, 05:55:26 pm ---      The j-stik is discontinued but I didn't think the Sanwa Jlw was.

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J-Stik is still available on the Ultimarc site. I don't think Andy has plans of discontinuing any time soon. Especially since his Servo-Stik and Ultra-360 are both based on it.

The JLW-TM-8 (thin shaft w/ balltop) was discontinued almost three years ago. There are, however, many Chinese knockoffs. The JLW-UM-8 with bat stick, or large balltop are still available.

Anyway, IMO, it's the best stick to mod for servo-switching. Or just go with the Servo-stik from Ultimarc and save yourself the hassle.

mgb:
Oh, I thought Andy just had the mag stick now.
I truthfully wasn't aware that the JLW was discontinued. I guess there was a lot of them out there.

AndyWarne:

--- Quote from: Mental on September 21, 2012, 06:14:37 pm ---J-Stik is still available on the Ultimarc site. I don't think Andy has plans of discontinuing any time soon. Especially since his Servo-Stik and Ultra-360 are both based on it.

The JLW-TM-8 (thin shaft w/ balltop) was discontinued almost three years ago. There are, however, many Chinese knockoffs. The JLW-UM-8 with bat stick, or large balltop are still available.

Anyway, IMO, it's the best stick to mod for servo-switching. Or just go with the Servo-stik from Ultimarc and save yourself the hassle.

--- End quote ---

Yes the J-Stik is very much still available and no plans to discontinue it. Also the Sanwa JLW-TM-8 (real not copy) is not discontinued. We have just ordered a large number of them. The situation might be that they will only supply in bulk though.

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