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Paul Olson:
I just got one of those springback sticks (for baseball games) on ebay.  It looks like it would make a great 720 stick if you removed the springs.  Has anyone tried this?  I'm still too far away from having a working modular panel to test it out right now.

Paul

Xiaou2:

 Paul,

  It might work ok for sinistar if you used a modifed centering  spider...
(but that shaft may not hold up cause its fairly thin)

  But for 720... it might not be such a good choice.

  Pots are friction based..and wear with time.   Esp in a game like 720 where youd need the full range of motion frequently - as youd be rolling it arround in large circles really fast.

  In this case, an optical 49 way joystick is better suited to this. 

 Of course,  it would be nice if mame emulated the centering wheel that 720 used... as then modified spinners could be used instead.

  Ohh, and also,  most analog joys have a square restrictor... so that would also be a problem, without modification.  Not sure how mame handles the turns - IE:  How far into the corners one needs to make a direction change... as that too could be an issue for a standard  analog joy.

 

Kremmit:

--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on April 04, 2005, 06:06:51 am ---
 Paul,

  It might work ok for sinistar if you used a modifed centering  spider...
(but that shaft may not hold up cause its fairly thin)

  But for 720... it might not be such a good choice.

  Pots are friction based..and wear with time.   Esp in a game like 720 where youd need the full range of motion frequently - as youd be rolling it arround in large circles really fast.

  In this case, an optical 49 way joystick is better suited to this. 

 Of course,  it would be nice if mame emulated the centering wheel that 720 used... as then modified spinners could be used instead.

  Ohh, and also,  most analog joys have a square restrictor... so that would also be a problem, without modification.  Not sure how mame handles the turns - IE:  How far into the corners one needs to make a direction change... as that too could be an issue for a standard  analog joy.

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Mame Analog+ emulates the calibration wheel on the real 720 joystick.

Those baseball "flicker" sticks have a round restrictor.

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