Posted by Falkentyne on 17, 2001 at 10:39 PM:
In Reply to: Well there's two kinds of square block controllers.. posted by cthulhuLuke on 17, 2001 at 9:10 PM:
At first, I thought the square block would truly make diagonls stand out, however, this is what I have discovered.
I have two sets of joysticks here...Competitions, and what APPEARS to be super joysticks (or at least, very similar to them). The competitions have the square blocks, and movement feels like a perfect 360 (which is what I usually don't prefer, in games like Street fighter (with Ken and Ryu/Sagat only), and Smash TV/Robotron.
Now the competitions are great for Chun Li, Guile, Zangief, Dhalsim, and other characters that utilize a lot of half or full circle special moves, but not for some other games.
My other set of joysticks came as part of a custom controller setup, for the Datel "Revenger" Megadrive to PC adapter, and those utilize the "circle" base, as you mentioned, and, looks a LOT like the supers from Happs' page, **BUT** those sticks actaully have the exact "square" feel to them for the diagonals. (it feels like you're moving the joystick in a square, instead of a circle, which I *like*). I dont know exactly what brand these are, though.
You might not believe this, but what makes these joysticks have the square feel, is acutally *how* the microswitches are planted on. They are on a slight angle (compared to the competitions), and the circle base impacts the edges of the microswitch on each diagonal, which limits movement to a square. I've seen many Street fighter machines that used this type of setup, and I love it.
The support lady at Happs told me that the Super joysticks also have the microswitches planted at a slight angle, but whether they actually will limit 360 movement to a "square" feel is unknown (she didn't have any assembled to test). I ordered two of them ; I guess I'll find out soon enough :)