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8 to 4 way Top Adjustable Sticks?
cadmium:
--- Quote from: lettuce on August 29, 2008, 05:21:53 am ---My next project shall be a bartop for vertical games, and although i used the U360 on my last project just gone (and love em), for this project i shall be using the Mag-Stik Plus (although i would of preferred the model before with the micro switches), just because i wouldnt need hardly any of the features of the U360 stick. It all depends on what games you are going to be playing, i like play alot of after burner, space harrier, skate or die etc which uses analog controls so the u360 was an obvious choice, but if i was only ever going to play 2,4 or 8 ways games then get the mag-stick its less than half the price of the U360
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So it's just a cost issue then? Or do you prefer the feel of the T/Mag-Stick?
Ginsu Victim:
He's doing a bartop that doesn't play EVERYTHING, so he doesn't need a U360 for it.
I know when I build my Dreamcast / Neo Geo bartop, I'll just be using Sanwas, because I don't need a stick that expensive for such a limited selection.
My Mame upright absolutely requires Ultrastiks, though.
whammoed:
I think I will be using some sort of mappable joystick on my next build...49way, u360, whatever.
I used to think I needed a dedicated physical restricted 4-way for games like pacman, but after owning an original pac cocktail for a while I realize that unless you are playing with an original stick for a particular game, the important thing is how it performs in game play. That dedicated 4-way doesn't feel like the original anyway.
arzoo:
--- Quote from: cadmium on August 28, 2008, 03:10:51 pm ---Can someone with a u360 tell me how map changes work? Does it automatically pic up different games, or is it something that can be controlled via my Front-End (maximus), or do I have to launch another program to do it?
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cadmium,
Before you commit to spending the $ for the u360's (and possibly cause a family riff ;)), you should definitely figure out the software side. As has been already mentioned, the later versions of mame can set the digital restriction - so for mame the u360 would stay in analog mode. For other emulators, you'll need to pick a default mode - most likely 8-way. You'll also want a default mode for the FE - I assume you use the joystick to scroll through game lists; so 2-way or 4-way is best. To do all this, Maximus would need the ability to launch and external app before launching an emulator and after quiting an emulator. If it can't launch the external app on emulator quit, then the FE will remain in the mode used by the last game you played - which may or may not be a show stopper.
cadmium:
Maximus has the ability to do that, though I hope I can figrure out how to make it so it's not poping up command prompts all the time.
Someone mentioned it has digital out built in (in addition to analog out), do I need the optional wiring harness for that, and can I just connect the digital outs to my I-Pac? If that's the case, I can just assign the digital buttons to the other emulators/fe and just leave mame using the analog output.
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