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Anybody here ever make a Major Havoc controller?
southpaw13:
Just my two cents from watching mythbusters....keep it simple. Putting the roller on top of the cylinders and then figuring out how to fold down the roller sounds complicated....
Rocky:
I wonder if anyone has tried using a "Kick" controller. It's a trackball that only rotates on one axis. It should have similar feel to a MH controller. It would be a sphere instead of a cylinder.
I guess if you want a dedicated MH controller, nothing else will do.
And I used to play on a dedicated maching back in my college days and it is much better than the spinner conversions.
Matthew Fisher:
Some of you may have noticed this (Kremmit, did I see you bidding?):
http://cgi.ebay.com/NOS-Atari-MAJOR-HAVOC-Trackball-Roller-Controller_W0QQitemZ6242380692QQcategoryZ13718QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
:o
So, is $125 really all that high for an exact repro? I'm guessing (hoping) that the winner probably will use it in a real MH, but wouldn't all but the most anal-retentive prefectionists buy a drop-in repro for a restoration if it were available, not to mention all the MAMErs that would buy one? I'm not saying a repro would sell hundreds of units, but dozens seems like a reasonable estimate. Then again, I would have thought that Gamecab's yoke would sell a lot better than it apparently did...
ChadTower:
A lot of people SAY they will buy something. When the item is finally available and it's time to lay cash on the table, though, most never do it.
PetitMorte:
From the pictures on the auction, it looks like the mechanism is MUCH more simple than the stuff you guys have above.
The green is the wheel, with it's axle. The wheel spins on its axle, and in doing so, spins the roller attached to the encoder, just like a trackball would.
This thing isn't a spinner, it's a 1-axis trackball.
Just take your skateboard wheel, and put it up against your trackball roller. add a light, bada-bing.
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