After 14 years, my joystick broke… But!

[G0ALY]

I have five spares!



I’ve been using the same Microsoft Sidewinder Precision 2 joystick since I started playing this game.  I like it so much that whenever I see another at a flea market or garage sale, if they are about five bucks, I buy them.  I just got down the tote from the attic and pulled out my first replacement.  At this rate I should be good for the next 50 years.

CHEERS!
goaly

[APDrone]

 

Figures, one of the best things MS did well, they quit doing.

Along with FS.

 

[Lusche]

  

[Kazaa]

Lots of love for this hardware. It's a shame that the buttons are very poor.

[G0ALY]

The hat switch went out (I could not look to the left) the rest of the buttons still work fine.

[icepac]

I've been soldering in new ones on my stick.

[kilo2]

My brother left one in a closet for years, when I first started playing I grabbed that one. I used that joystick the first few year I played the game. The Z axis started to go out had to replace it.

[Vraciu]

I've been soldering in new ones on my stick.

My hat switch is finally on the fritz after 12 years...   

My only really complaint with the SW is it needs a few more buttons.  I can't run button scripts like I could over at Brand X.

I have a Force Feedback Pro like mint sitting in the box still but.........

[FLOOB]

Still use my sidewinder pre pro 1. One of the views on the hat switch has become difficult, no big deal when using trackir tho.

[DREDIOCK]

Figures, one of the best things MS did well, they quit doing.

Along with FS.

 

I could name a host of companies that do that or have done that and are much worse off for it (Sears comes to mind)

Always seems to work that way though. A company gets something right. And they stop doing it

[Getback]

MS was the best fighter stick I ever owned.