No I said they´re not the same as you can see… I use the keyboards example for showing the reliability of the company… yes, both of this micro switches comes from the same Cherry… a German company if I´m not wrong.
about the cherry´s i was talking about… it´s second from above (it seems to be slimmer, and feels softer than the others)… first is from my IL Eurojoystick, Second is from my old Happ an third was from a Happ ultimate (crappy stick).
Photo may not have good quality… sorry… it´s from my Nexus 4 Phone… I don´t understand Sh#t about camera or photo quaility…
Okay now you are just back peddling and not making sense.
Your first post was not very clear at all. And I still think you are missing the point here.
Bring up Keyboards? Cherry makes a thousand and one switches for a thousand and one applications, their keyboard division of only a tiny part of the company.
Hell Cherry isn’t just switches either, they are a major Instrumental company, they makes hundreds of thousands of mechanical, electrical and industrial parts.
Cherry produce alot of components for heavy industry.
Darksakul, I own some American cabinets and my Happ sticks feel as accurate as my Japanese sticks. They are just different. I truly doubt that American stick makers said " accuracy?! Not so much. These American kids put graffiti, cigarette burns, chewing gum, on these cabinets and not only that decals are peeling off so we need are sticks to be built tough! Plus American arcades do a lot of conversions so why do we care about accuracy??" If you Google JAMMA you’ll see that the Japanese pretty much pioneered the conversion BTW so I’m not really sure how that has anything to do with American joystick accuracy.
That is me having the generalize each major part style. For those grew up with and used to the OLD Happ, and once you gotten them broken-in they are great.
But brand spankin new, the current Happ is terrible. IL and their counterparts are great once you get a dozen hours (depending on the spring) of gaming in to break in that spring.
Brand new I notice alot of Happ and IL joysticks have some deflection or bounce to it.
For brand new Happ/IL sticks; as you pull the lever to one side completely and release and allow the level to return to neutral, the level will bounce back and forth a bit and does not find neutral that quickly.
If I have to Sum up and generalize what makes American/European parts the way they are is Durability over accuracy. I didn’t say they have no accuracy just that durability is there top priority not the accuracy.
Its the reversed with Japanese style parts.
Of course there are “exceptions to the rules”.
I can do things to a Happ/IL I can’t get away with on a Sanwa for example, like spike a whole arcade stick on the floor balltop/battop first.
Do this to a Happ or IL and maybe you scratch the bat top. Do this to a Sanwa JLF, you might crack the ball top, bent the mounting plate, damage the PCB and crack the gate.
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