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Arcade Joystick

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dave5317

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I'm looking fwd to buy an arcade joystick for PC but I can't find any.I wonder if u guys have bought/seen one and reccomend it to me.Thanks.
 
You know, that is a good question. I've seen EVERY kind of joystick know to man for the PC EXCEPT an arcade style one. Waas up with that?!
 
I second that - the HotRod absolutely rocks.
Try playing Robotron, PacMan, Donkey Kong, Crazy Climber, Galaga... nothing else comes close.
 
There's also the OzSticks. But other than that there aren't too many sticks out for the PC. I use a PSX->PC USB joystick adapter since the PSX seems to have a good selection of arcade sticks.
 
All the PSX one's I've seen have the round-ball type stick that SUCKS bad, (Even though ASCII has other things that make the sticks awesome). Arcade control parts are easy to find & the plans to build you own are all over the place.
 
Well, the ball-kind is similar to classic arcades, like Pac-man, where your hand had to be positioned on top of the joystick but ALL modern & most old arcades use the slender "bat" style because you can slip it between fingers (Thumb on top, pointer finger wrapped around & other fingers behind). This style is necessary for many games, but not all (Pac-Man, for instance), so I've always been a die-hard for genuine arcade controls. My fave console joystick was the ASCII Fighter Stick SN for the Super Nintendo (SG6 for the Genesis), but it's major flaw was the ball-style joystick. Ah well, at least genuine Hap-controls buttons/joysticks are used in the hot-Rod & they are easy to buy for home-made projects.
 
You're kidding right? Any First-Person Shooter is unplayable with digital directional sticks or pads! In fact, *NO ONE* should even consider playing any FPS game for the PC with anything but a keyboard & mouse. Try playing Quake3 on a Dreamcast & you'll see what I mean...
 
When I worked at KMart during high school (1984) they were throwing out an Atari store demo console. It looked like an arcade game. This thing had arcade joysticks and buttons, which I was able to salvage. Maybe they can be hacked into an arcade control panel to play with mame. Ideas?
 
I remember a while back looking at a web page of a guy who built an arcade style joystick. Had the 4 buttons and the ball topped controller. I'm not sure of the details but it looked kind of nice. And useful.
 
I just have the joysticks and the buttons. The joysticks are very heavy duty steel with plastic covers. They are made to withstand years of pimply mountain-dewed teens yanking on them to control pac man.
 
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