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What's the different between an 8-way restrictor and an octagonal restrictor?
GaryMcT:
--- Quote from: Ginsu Victim on July 15, 2009, 10:16:14 pm ---If you're using the U360s, you might find the throw distance to be too far without any restriction. Round or octagonal...can't really go wrong with those.
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Sweet. . in that case I'm covered since I bought one of each for each joystick. :) I got the hard (used to be medium) spring as well with the ball top. I'm hoping I don't need the longer stick since I didn't order that. I'm top mounting it, so it shouldn't be necessary I hope.
Ginsu Victim:
You won't need the longer shaft since you're top mounting.
GaryMcT:
After playing many games at Ground Kontrol the last couple of days, I'm pretty sure that no restrictor or the round restrictor is going to work great for me on the U360 for nearly all games except possibly pacman/ms. pacman. I may end up getting a special stick for pacman that is the 45 degree rotated square like the pacman joystick. This is all theory until I get my controls in. :)
On a related note, I was surprised to find that Robotron/Smash TV have effectively round restrictors. I figured they would have pronounced diagonals.
NoOne=NBA=:
--- Quote from: GaryMcT on July 19, 2009, 03:07:28 am ---On a related note, I was surprised to find that Robotron/Smash TV have effectively round restrictors. I figured they would have pronounced diagonals.
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They are actually tougher to play with square restrictors.
On a square restrictor, you get a lot more shots going into the diagonal than the true directions, when you spin the stick around its perimeter.
On a round restrictor, you will get a roughly equal number of shots to each direction.
GaryMcT:
--- Quote from: NoOne=NBA= on July 22, 2009, 08:05:34 pm ---
--- Quote from: GaryMcT on July 19, 2009, 03:07:28 am ---On a related note, I was surprised to find that Robotron/Smash TV have effectively round restrictors. I figured they would have pronounced diagonals.
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They are actually tougher to play with square restrictors.
On a square restrictor, you get a lot more shots going into the diagonal than the true directions, when you spin the stick around its perimeter.
On a round restrictor, you will get a roughly equal number of shots to each direction.
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This is actually really good news for me. I think I'm at the point now where I'm going to use U360s with round restrictors for all my control panels. The only exception would be a U360 with a 45-degree rotate square restrictor for Pacman on my vertical machine in the center. I need to see if that's even necessary though.
I picked up some JLWs to see if I'd want to use those for a Smash TV config control panel. . . I really think that the U360's are worth it for all of 'em!
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