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Anyone know where i can find Rediculously small joysticks?
patrickl:
If you don't mind that example, why not buy one of those PDA joysticks? They are pretty cheap and quite easy to find as well. Trouble I had with those is that they don't come with a shiny metal stick and I couldn't figure a way to mount a stick on them securely (of course also that I liked building my own joystick)
I'm talking about something like this: http://www.farnell.com/datasheets/32138.pdf
Lilwolf:
Also, design everything else and then find the space you have.
Someone sells a low profile ball top on ebay that looks like it would work for a bartop unit... but not for a DonkeyKong handheld hack.
If you get too small... it will suck... Too big and it wont fit.
One thing that you could do is get a thumb pad style joystick... and glue a grinding bit ontop of it. I did this a long time ago and it worked great. Its a metal stick in a rounded / somewhat wide course wafer. Then glue this directly to the suction cups that make the connections on the thumb pad.
Dekelia:
You could take a stick off of one of the original micro cabs:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4315&item=8133745292&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
RayB:
That's a good idea. Those sticks don't feel all that good though. They are kinda squishy and they use these metal bendable contacts in a circuit board. He'd have to cut out the circuit board.
I have a dead Coleco PacMan I might trade for stuff.
MonitorGuru:
Look for some SUNCOM joysticks for the Atari 2600/Commodore 64. They were about the size as the Epyx 500XJ and made out of basically a leaf switch (though the shaft of the stick was actually grounded and acted as the connector to the 4 directional leaves) Whereas the 500XJ was a microswitch based one.
The XJ probably will withstand harder play, though the suncoms definitely outlasted the original Atari bubble-click-button circuit board sticks.
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