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TurboC--:
No but that's a good idea.  Although Q-bert is pretty much a niche thing to design a whole joystick around.  How about a 4/8 way switchable, and design the mounting system to be able to rotate 45 degrees?  Sounds like a project!

elvis:

--- Quote from: RayB on August 23, 2005, 11:02:49 pm ---Do what I'm doing... plan for more than one cabinet!

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What he said.  I'm looking at a dedicated 4-way cabinet as well as a dedicated dual-sticks (crazy climber, smash-tv, etc) cabinet later down the track.

(a) It looks great having more than one machine in your games room

(b) Beats having an *UGLY* franken-panel and

(c) It means more than one person can play something at a time.  Bit of a godsend if you have kids. :)

Level42:
There may be yet another option, Suzo Inductives :)  Just got them in yesterday.
Like the 49's, these are electronicaly "switchable":
There's a potentiometer  and this also apparantly switches it between 4 and 8 ways (!?!?!?) This invites for a nice "hack": put the potentiometer under your CP and put a nice knob on it :)  Will report in full in seperate thread...

agfisher:
Thanks for your replies. I'll start figuring out what I can do. Thanks again

Adam
Boston, MA

RandyT:

--- Quote from: Kremmit on August 23, 2005, 11:00:29 pm ---A 49-way joystick controlled by a GP-Wiz49 can be electronically restricted to 4 & 8-way, plus 4-way diagonal.  Also 2-way vertical, 2-way horizontal, and 2 49-way modes.  Electronic restriction means that the joystick will only send (in the case of 4-way mode) up, down, right, and left- but will not send a diagonal.  Electronic restriction will NOT physically keep the joystick from being pushed in those directions, it just won't send that data to the computer.

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Just want to clarify something for the uninitiated.  In 4-way DRS mode, the electronic restriction of the GP-Wiz49 does more than just limit output to the primary 4 directions.  It doesn't ignore diagonal movements of the stick, rather makes intelligent decisions about which of the 16 possible directions to output based on the joystick position and a number of other criterion.  It does this for all of the other DRS modes as well.

It's a small distinction, but an important one as limiting output to the primary directions is possible using NOT logic on a standard 8-way.  Of course this approach to electronic restriction does not give the desired effect, rather makes the problem worse.  IE. functionally just the opposite of what the GP-Wiz-49 does.

I know Kremmit knows all of this, I'm just adding to the posted info on one of my products. :)

RandyT

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