Originally posted by eilif
chances are with a little tinkering you can fix it yourself, i built my current joystick out of a few older ones, i took the insides of 2 old top gun tm sticks and put them into the x fighter stick, and put it on a tm flcs base since the springs on the x fighter are insanely stiff. Im not sure what they use these days but if you can get joysticks that use analog potentiometers you can customize the heck out of em and replace parts when needed. I have the best joystick i could ever buy now since i built it just for myself, and it cost about 15 dollars. I got one of those game port to usb adaptors and its got no spiking like you often get with gameport.
LMAO I do the same thing with the same stick, only I still use the XFighter base.
Managed to unintentionally break that stiff spring so not its not so stiff but does bind up every once in a while.
but typically whenever I ned parts I buy a top gun stick for a few dollars and cannibalize it. Only thing that sucks is I Still only have a 4 way hatswitch.
but other then that I like it cause it fints my hand perfectly neither being too small like alot of the sticks out there now nor too big with the buttons spread too far apart like the newer TM & CH sticks which would be fine if I held my stick low and between my legs. but my stick is up slightly and on my desk. Which makes that reach somewhat uncomfortable if not problematic.
And the button layout is EXACTLY where I want them.
Where did you get the gameport to usb adapter? I havent been able to find one anywhere?
I was thinking of making a mold of this stick itself and using it as a base in trying designto make my own stick with newer parts from newer sticks. there are some features the newer sticks have I like. they just dont have them where I would want them.
