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Are there any new joysticks to check out from the past few years?

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rCadeGaming:

--- Quote from: BadMouth on December 13, 2012, 09:36:15 am ---What arcade game originally had joysticks that you think feel like an arcade joystick should?
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I don't think you should limit yourself to onlty what you already know now.  It's easily possible that the joystick you'll like the best is not something you've tried yet.  This was certainly true for me when I started looking.

BadMouth:

--- Quote from: rCadeGaming on December 13, 2012, 09:42:38 am ---
--- Quote from: BadMouth on December 13, 2012, 09:36:15 am ---What arcade game originally had joysticks that you think feel like an arcade joystick should?
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I don't think you should limit yourself to onlty what you already know now.  It's easily possible that the joystick you'll like the best is not something you've tried yet.  This was certainly true for me when I started looking.

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It was only a starting point.

I hated JLFs at first.  I described them as "dainty" due to the super soft spring and undersized bat-tops.
After spending a ton of money on various joysticks and mods, I ended up with JLFs with Hand Candy balltops, stiffer springs, circular restrictors and optical sensors.
They resemble nothing I ever used as a kid, but they feel right....except the throw is too long for hardcore shmupping....for now.

I've tried Happ Comps, IL Eurostick, X-Arcade, Sanwa JLW, Sanwa JLF, Seimitsu LS-56 and have Happ analogs on the way.
I'd really like to try out GGG's Leaf Pro for 4-way, but I just have no use for it right now.  ::)

rCadeGaming:

--- Quote from: BadMouth on December 13, 2012, 10:23:21 am ---It was only a starting point.
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Sorry to jump the gun.

Anyhow, JLF's are my favorite, hands down.  I like them totally stock, except a little bit stiffer spring, for fighters. 

For shmups, you're right that the throw is too long.  Have you seen my JLF mod for reduced throw and engage?

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=120301.0

http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=41451

I like this better for shmups, and most other genres other than fighting games.

IceAge:

--- Quote from: rCadeGaming on December 13, 2012, 09:17:54 am ---
--- Quote from: Unstupid on December 13, 2012, 04:46:05 am ---The IL Eurostick is better than the Happ Competition if you are looking at that style of joystick....

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+1

Also look at the Sanwa JLF and Seimitsu LS-32 if you're not familiar with them.

What types of games are you going to be focusing on?  Asking what's the best stick is like asking what's the best car.  Where are you going to drive it?  On a racetrack?  On a highway?  Off-road?

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Well.. not asking what's best, just what else there is out there. Right now I was planning on two competitions and one Pac-Man (Happ) joystick for four way games. That way I can play games like Mortal Kombat (which had modified competitions) as well as some of the other more adventurey type games, and also the more classic Galaga/Donkey Kong style games.

I completely forgot about Sanwa I actually own one because I was going to make a Tekken 5 joystick that I never got around to making. I might still someday if I find it, though I do find it rather loose.

IceAge:
Wow I just saw that Happ no longer manufactures the original competition joysticks, good thing I saw that about IL Euro sticks. Does anyone have black dust washers though?

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