Introducing the Colour Maximite 2

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capsikin Guru Joined: 30/06/2020 Location: Australia Posts: 342	Posted: 02:44pm 06 Jul 2020         thwill said     Turbo46 said   Hi Tom, I have a couple of these <snip> They do use real micro switches, I suspect that most of the commercial joysticks do not use them and that's why they wear out. There do seem to be plenty of them available though. Yes, these are the ones I was talking about for building your own arcade machines: Alas not my own work otherwise I would be much more informed in this conversations. You can even buy these joysticks off Amazon, just "search arcade stick diy", what you can't seem to get is new non-USB standalone retro sticks with buttons. So unless someone is going to build a USB host controller (I think is the correct terminology?) for the CMM2 we are left with Nunchuck (compatible) devices, building our own or presumably butchering USB ones. I found the search term: arcade joystick case for if you want to put one of the button and joystick kits in a pre-made arcade stick case instead of making a large arcade cabinet. It looks fairly easy to put the buttons and joystick into the case, and they usually seem to come without the USB interface attached, so you could hook the wires up to something else (e.g. your computer interface pins, or with only one button to a 9 pin Atari joystick interface) without hacking them up. However, I don't know if anyone's tried it, I've only seen videos where people use the USB interface. -- Caspian