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Happ's Perfect 360 -- Feels VERY stiff?

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TalkingOctopus:
Ignore my previous post.  Everywhere I have looked, including the Retroblast review, have said the P360s are stiff.  I am not much of a joystick connoisseur so the stiff joysticks were not as noticeable to me.  

As for changing the spring, swap the P360 spring for the Super spring.  I remembered that OSCAR did this about a year ago and posted the results. He said:

--- Quote ---An interesting tidbit...

I recently changed out the spring on the Player2 P360 stick in my cabinet with the lighter Super spring to test the difference between the springs.  Shortly after I changed out the spring, I had a few "fighter" fans (MvsC, MvsSF) over for a night of gameplaying, but I didn't say anything about the difference between the joysticks.

After a few rounds, guys were fighting over who got to use the P2 side (interesting because many people feel at a disadvantage playing in the more unaccustomed P2 position)...  Apparently they really preferred the feel of the lighter spring in the P360 for fighters and when I mentioned what the difference was between the sticks, they made me change out the spring in the P1 stick too because it was "unfair".  Heh...  
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Quote from this thread: http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=6294;start=msg65647#msg65647

Oscar actually has posted a lot of useful stuff about the P360 on the forum.  You may want to do a search with his user name and "P360."

sofakng:
Hmmm, I can't seem to find anything specicially on this...

Do you know if he has a tutorial or anything like that?  I don't see any on his website.

2600:
It's possible that some of the P360's feel "very stiff" because of the sleeve length.  A few people have mentioned that they received the wrong size metal sleeve 5/8 inch instead of the 1/2 inch. Wouldn't this compress the spring a bit more and make it "stiffer", or at least a pain to put the e-ring on.

Check your sleeve length and do a sanity check and make sure you have it assembled correctly, a few people put the pivot busing on incorrectly.

Let us know what you find.

ChoboPants:
Thanks...yeah the joystick has an unplayable range of motion right now. I will check the sleeve length when I get home. It's not just the spring, the stick is hitting the plastic circle that it goes through on the bottom of the base. I'll try to take some pictures tonight to show you.

sofakng:
Chocobo, I know what you mean.  Mine feels the exact same way.  I'll also try to take some pictures and we can compare to see if they are both the same...

2600, I'll check the metal sleeve.  I'll post my results back here.

TalkingOctopus, Oscar replied to my e-mail this morning about how he changed his springs.  Apparantely all that is involved is taking the screws off the p360 and then simply swapping springs.  I can't wait to try it tonight :)

My only concern is that the p360's becoming less acurate because of the looser spring...

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