Gp2x's Joystick
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deadlychicken22
Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal
I'd say it has a few minor problems, but overall its a good joystick.
Mr. Anderson
GP2x USER
I love it for all the arcade games I've played so far on gp2xengine 
It's really a unique feel to have a joystick for those games instead of a D-Pad! However, they have to tweak the microswitch recognition for the next firmware, there is just no excuse for going up when actually pointing to the right!(voted for few minor problems)
It's really a unique feel to have a joystick for those games instead of a D-Pad! However, they have to tweak the microswitch recognition for the next firmware, there is just no excuse for going up when actually pointing to the right!(voted for few minor problems)
PSyMastR
\m/O__O\m/
I never had that Up problem. Hm...Mr. Anderson posted on Dec 23 2005 at 10:11 PM said:I love it for all the arcade games I've played so far on gp2xengine
It's really a unique feel to have a joystick for those games instead of a D-Pad! However, they have to tweak the microswitch recognition for the next firmware, there is just no excuse for going up when actually pointing to the right!(voted for few minor problems)
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daclassicgamingmaster
It Is Your Birthday.
needs some tweaking. not too bad...
Drak
fff
It good for most non-fighting games. But bor and sor etc.. are a lil cheesy with it hehe.
Mr. Anderson
GP2x USER
PSyMastR posted on Dec 24 2005 at 04:57 AM said:I never had that Up problem. Hm...Mr. Anderson posted on Dec 23 2005 at 10:11 PM said:I love it for all the arcade games I've played so far on gp2xengine
It's really a unique feel to have a joystick for those games instead of a D-Pad! However, they have to tweak the microswitch recognition for the next firmware, there is just no excuse for going up when actually pointing to the right!(voted for few minor problems)
You never played some vertical or horizontal shooters then I guess.
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Mr. Anderson posted on Dec 24 2005 at 04:14 AM said:PSyMastR posted on Dec 24 2005 at 04:57 AM said:I never had that Up problem. Hm...Mr. Anderson posted on Dec 23 2005 at 10:11 PM said:I love it for all the arcade games I've played so far on gp2xengine
It's really a unique feel to have a joystick for those games instead of a D-Pad! However, they have to tweak the microswitch recognition for the next firmware, there is just no excuse for going up when actually pointing to the right!(voted for few minor problems)
You never played some vertical or horizontal shooters then I guess.
I'm pretty sure this problem is one of the (very) few which will not be able to be fixed by software. It is likely to be a physical design flaw with not enough spacing between switches.
I hope I'm wrong, but if I'm not then the joystick is absolutely spasticated!
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C
codeninja
Guest
There is no need for more than 4 dir Dpad for 2d games. For 3D, it's not a true analog. So, it's got the worst of the both worlds. Yes, joystick is my biggest complain of GP2x.
fireball87
Member
/e just hopes it is easier/better than a keyboard for input, if thats the case i probably wont mind it. We've got to see if theres a way to better handle the microswitch management though.
There are ways to code for it to make the stick behave better. I have made the chart (my sig) to explain. There is also a possibility of a hardware mod to the stick itself.
I have ordered the stick assembly itself from electronics supply to experiment on it. It is taking FOREVER to get it as everyone seems to be out of stock. I will post results when I get it.
The good news is that it is digital. It is a bunch of switches. Many things can be done to tweak it hardware wise.
I have ordered the stick assembly itself from electronics supply to experiment on it. It is taking FOREVER to get it as everyone seems to be out of stock. I will post results when I get it.
The good news is that it is digital. It is a bunch of switches. Many things can be done to tweak it hardware wise.
nubie
Recovering Jerk-A-Holic
I would like to qauntify my choice of perfect in every way by saying 3 (or so) things.
1. I mean the stick (not the cap), the physical metal and plastic and switches soldered to the mainboard).
2. I notice *some* people with a shifted motherboard, this appears in the form of the cap actually touching the face around the hole. PUT YOUR CIRCUIT BOARD CENTERED, DON'T GO HACKING AND GLUEING AND CUTTING!! (to fix that, on the topic of hacking, glueing and cutting in a worthy cause see below)
3. I would like to see some *cap* options on the stick, it is useful to cut into the face of the stick like DaveC did in the "Yet another joystick mod" thread.
4. Software is an issue, try a good game of montezuma's revenge (or lode runner, it comes with the atari emu, and is a darn sight easier to get running) and notice the crisp response, then switch to a game like BubbleX and you can swear the stick physically changed into a 2-year old N64 controller from your 8-year olds room. It didn't, but the software carries the blame.
I just don't want people blaming the stick when mostly it is the crappy cap, and to a large (maybe, I am not sure) extent the shifted circuit board that cause the problem.
DaveC still firmly holds the opinion that the deadzone is high (he could be right; I don't like playing PacMan, so I couldn't say), 24 degrees at ~1cm height (I don't like math, so you figure out how much) is a *dead* zone. It may be possible to mod the zone smaller if you wanted to get the *maximum(tm)* amount of finesse to your control.
I am so far perfectly satisfied with the physical switch assembly (although not the cap, a seperate entity).
1. I mean the stick (not the cap), the physical metal and plastic and switches soldered to the mainboard).
2. I notice *some* people with a shifted motherboard, this appears in the form of the cap actually touching the face around the hole. PUT YOUR CIRCUIT BOARD CENTERED, DON'T GO HACKING AND GLUEING AND CUTTING!! (to fix that, on the topic of hacking, glueing and cutting in a worthy cause see below
)3. I would like to see some *cap* options on the stick, it is useful to cut into the face of the stick like DaveC did in the "Yet another joystick mod" thread.
4. Software is an issue, try a good game of montezuma's revenge (or lode runner, it comes with the atari emu, and is a darn sight easier to get running) and notice the crisp response, then switch to a game like BubbleX and you can swear the stick physically changed into a 2-year old N64 controller from your 8-year olds room. It didn't, but the software carries the blame.
I just don't want people blaming the stick when mostly it is the crappy cap, and to a large (maybe, I am not sure) extent the shifted circuit board that cause the problem.
DaveC still firmly holds the opinion that the deadzone is high (he could be right; I don't like playing PacMan, so I couldn't say), 24 degrees at ~1cm height (I don't like math, so you figure out how much) is a *dead* zone. It may be possible to mod the zone smaller if you wanted to get the *maximum(tm)* amount of finesse to your control.
I am so far perfectly satisfied with the physical switch assembly (although not the cap, a seperate entity).
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ihate56k
Still Fresh
It tends to hit diagonals more than discreet directions, but the only game I've seen it cause problems on is Dizzy on the C64 (he keeps jumping accidentally)
I've not had any other problems, so no real complaints from me.
I've not had any other problems, so no real complaints from me.
My only problem with this stick is that my thumb can slip from it. It would better if the the stick's end would be concave. The 8 way directions (actually even 16 are possible) are very nice and for my taste much better than typical pad. Yep - there should be global config for stick's behavior as so many directions can confuse and be not precise.
Vimacs
Don't be evil!
I wish it had a GP32 type stick, the gp32 stick is one of the best out there to me.
Mr.Jabberwocky
Bloke with a brick on his head
One minor problem you can sort out yourself - the top colliding with the case.
I have seen you mention this several times, but the circuit board has pegs moulded from the casing passing through holes in it. It fits snugly on them and cannot be shifted. There must be some other explanation.nubie posted on Dec 24 2005 at 08:37 AM said:2. I notice *some* people with a shifted motherboard, this appears in the form of the cap actually touching the face around the hole. PUT YOUR CIRCUIT BOARD CENTERED, DON'T GO HACKING AND GLUEING AND CUTTING!! (to fix that, on the topic of hacking, glueing and cutting in a worthy cause see below
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Phil
FAPPO!
One on the biggest annoyances to me is the toughness to get and actual direction instead of diagonals, It makes arcade came so much harder, and doing simple stuff like down+right+punch unnessisarily hard.
nik166
:3 :3 :3
DijiTao posted on Dec 24 2005 at 06:11 PM said:
you mean playstation analog stick or pad ?
when i first tried the stick before using it really, i thought it was like an analog stick, i played some emus on XBOX with it or etc, i wasn't thinking that you had to bring the stick ALLLLLLL THE WAY to the end to get a contact , that's the peoblem i think
there are some arcade sticks etc not analog, but without the deadzone , that would be ok , but the way it is, i hope to get real mod
or an analog one would have been great because every parameter would be ONLY software related, with the same feeling, that joystick is GPH's failure to me !
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