Vectrex Joystick Controllers
Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2020 9:29 am
Seeing as the origibnal Vectrex controllers are analog and there's only 2 original analog games - I thought we needed a decent digital arcade style stick for the vectrex.
I use these boxes on nearly all of the sticks I make and vary the overlays,buttons,balltops.
Seeing as the boxes are quite 'mini', I turn the joysticks shafts smaller and use 30mm balltops rather thann the standard 35mm ones. I also use OBSF24 Sanwa buttons rather thann the usual OBSF30 buttons (OBSF24 are usually used as 'start' buttons on arcade cabs)
The analog to digital conversion is a very simple resistor circuit I found on the internet.
Here's the circuit diagram (resistors actually go on the underside of what you are looking at)
The first prototype
Making a run of them on my work cnc mill
The main 3 types (MB - Europe, GCE - USA, Bandai - Asia)
Some specials -
I use these boxes on nearly all of the sticks I make and vary the overlays,buttons,balltops.
Seeing as the boxes are quite 'mini', I turn the joysticks shafts smaller and use 30mm balltops rather thann the standard 35mm ones. I also use OBSF24 Sanwa buttons rather thann the usual OBSF30 buttons (OBSF24 are usually used as 'start' buttons on arcade cabs)
The analog to digital conversion is a very simple resistor circuit I found on the internet.
Here's the circuit diagram (resistors actually go on the underside of what you are looking at)
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