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Daviea:
Ok, I've had some more time to go over the 720 controller today while I've got SW parts taking up the machine time. 

I was just thinking about the optical board and realized that I could use two or three *dead* boards for my purposes.  One to strip clean to create new negatives, one for parts placement and a third for backup.  If anyone has one or more dead 720 optical boards they'd like to hand over, I would be willing to send a working replacement as soon as I get them fabricated.  However, it could take days, weeks or months (read: no completion date set yet) before I send out the repro optical boards.

Also, I'm ready to accept a whole controller (to use as a build model) and any NOS components that can be spared due to the fact that my samples are either missing or too worn.  I'll return any parts that are loaned to me.  I'll swap out a brand new repro unit if I can *keep* a complete NOS or near-NOS unit in return.

Lastly, does anyone have a whole 720 machine (local to Huntington Beach, CA) that they'd like to sell to me?  While I'm sure I'll get this right the first time, I would prefer having a machine to fully test form, fit and function before releasing anything.  I'd like to get a nice minty machine, but anything will do as long as it's functional.

That's about it for the 720 controller for right now.  Contact me directly on Arcade controls or at the email address listed in my profile.

Thanks everyone.

David Adams
RAM Controls

Kremmit:
Looks like that SPO joy has a 4-way restrictor plate on it.  If you do a repro on those, you ought to make the 4-way restrictors as well.  Most of the Nintendo sticks out there on the used market have an 8-way restrictor, or no restrictor plate at all.  4-ways are hard to find.  And the 2-way plates for Mario Bros.?  Forget about it. 

PM sent re:  Pivot Ball

usedelectronics:
My offer still stands on the loan of my NOS 720 controller.
I also have a bunch of NOS pivot balls, and other parts as well.
Let me know. :)

MaximRecoil:

--- Quote from: Daviea on January 09, 2007, 02:52:52 pm ---Maxim, thanks for the pic of the SPO joystick.  I can tell from that pic alone that the repro would not only be possible, but it would also be very easy to do.  It would super easy to release as a retrofit kit, as well.
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No problem. I had a feeling it would be easy for you to do, considering it is just a couple of machined parts + a stamped part. Let me know if you ever want to reproduce one and I might be able to lend you my SPO joystick to go by, depending on how long you would need to keep it for. I can't go very long without it because SPO is my favorite game. Another option, if you decide to to go with this, would be to put out a call on RGVAC for one. There may be someone who has one that isn't as attached to it as I am that could lend it out for a longer time.


--- Quote from: Kremmit on January 09, 2007, 11:29:39 pm ---Looks like that SPO joy has a 4-way restrictor plate on it.  If you do a repro on those, you ought to make the 4-way restrictors as well.  Most of the Nintendo sticks out there on the used market have an 8-way restrictor, or no restrictor plate at all.  4-ways are hard to find.  And the 2-way plates for Mario Bros.?  Forget about it. 

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Yeah, no restrictor plate at all seems to be the most common. But yeah, PO/SPO joysticks use a 4-way restrictor that should be as easy as the other parts to reproduce (a while back someone on RGVAC said they ran off a bunch of them on a CAD machine). Speaking of the 2-way restrictors, the Nintendo game "Arm Wrestling" also used an SPO joystick (SPO and Arm Wrestling being the only two games to use that joystick), but the Arm Wrestling version used a 2-way restrictor.

The SPO joystick still works fine as a regular Nintendo 4-way joystick for any Nintendo 4-way game, so some people might want to convert an extra Nintendo joystick they have kicking around even if they don't have an SPO machine, just in case they ever come across one, or want to have an authentic way of playing SPO in MAME.

Xiaou2:

 Hmm, another Repo Idea...

  Wico balltop  8-way leaf joysticks.

  These are really desired for many classics. 

 Id love a few sets of these...   and Im sure  Tons of people would too.

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