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any interest in switchable ikari/Xybots rotary joysticks?

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whammoed:

--- Quote from: Major Rock Hardy on February 07, 2006, 05:13:22 pm ---
--- Quote from: whammoed on February 07, 2006, 04:49:49 pm ---Can you post a pic of the joystick?  The cp pic on klov is crappy.  I would like to see what makes it different from a normal stick.

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Below is a slightly blurry picture of a xybots CP.  The joystick itself is an 8 way, with microswitches, but it has a twist feature, clockwise and counter clockwise to rotate the view on the screen in the game.  The rotation is spring-loaded though, so the stick only turns maybe 15 degrees and springs back to center.

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Oh, I thought it was just a rotary joystick with a different kind of knob/handle.
So is it pot based?

Major Rock Hardy:

--- Quote from: whammoed on February 07, 2006, 06:49:19 pm ---Oh, I thought it was just a rotary joystick with a different kind of knob/handle.
So is it pot based?

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nope, just rotates and there is a lever attached to the rotatable shaft and 2 more microswitches, mounted so that when the joystick is rotated, the lever can strike either the left one or the right one, triggering a 'rotate'.  You'd just wire them up like additional button inputs.

cheers,
Rock

Kremmit:
There's some pretty good pics of a Xybots stick here:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=44585.msg420108#msg420108

XtraSmiley:
I'd have to say no.  It would seem to be better to just add rotaries to a cab b/c then you can play those games as well as Xybots.  I mean, the game isn't good enought to get it's own stick on a panel.  Like Qbert and the tilted 4-way.  Not worth it.

Unless of course, you have to have it...

Major Rock Hardy:

--- Quote from: XtraSmiley on February 08, 2006, 09:43:41 am ---I'd have to say no.  It would seem to be better to just add rotaries to a cab b/c then you can play those games as well as Xybots.  I mean, the game isn't good enought to get it's own stick on a panel.  Like Qbert and the tilted 4-way.  Not worth it.

Unless of course, you have to have it...

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That was very constructive, thank you.   :P  For the rest of you, just let me know if you ARE interested.

Thanks,
Rock

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