Paradise Arcade Joystick Project Magenta

NENDO · October 5, 2013, 7:29am

Do want!

PlayDoh003 · October 5, 2013, 7:58am

OMG! As much as I like the Purple Aliminum balltop I already have on it, the Purple/Blue balltop would probably look awesome on my custom Mad Catz SoulCalibur V stick!

NENDO · November 9, 2013, 9:27am

The Optical Joystick Discussion

We are one step closer. We hit one snag and will be revising the design slightly. We are hoping to release the first round of public sticks in December.

Our stick is not optical, it is inductive. The advantage of the design is that we will have the ability to customize the sensitivity and action to whatever you can think of. The out put will be a 5 pin plug, and the on board pcb will translate position to the appropriate combination of “microswitch” activations based on the map you enter.

Our exisiting prototypes are senstive enough to pick up when you just touch the joystick so you can be as senstive as you want, or keep it from doing anthing until you ride the gate. Better yet you can change the cardinal vs diagnol sizes or really anything you want to be conducive to your style of play.

This will be released first for the JLF, but with the methodology we are using it will be easily tranportable to other joyticks in the future.

This has been a long time in the making because we want to make sure that every part works perfectly and on a wide variety of sticks.

I thought I would post this comment from the Optical Joystick thread to give this product some more exposure. December release makes me very happy!

sethian0 · November 14, 2013, 4:52am

i posted this last time in the other threat but never got a response.

does it work like the suzo inductive with the ferrite ring and coils?

NENDO · November 14, 2013, 5:00am

I didn’t think that there was another way for an inductive stick to work…?

eczangief · November 25, 2013, 10:15am

Very excited for this.

NoSaltPlz · December 16, 2013, 9:23pm

this looks very interesting

sethian0 · December 21, 2013, 3:56am

bump. wanting this tk work with ls56 or 1mm oversized actuator

armi0024 · December 21, 2013, 5:29am

Sorry guys, we have another round of PCBs we are testing now. Hit a few unexpected snags and are revamping the design.
In regards to actuators… where we are going, we don’t need actuators

NENDO · December 21, 2013, 6:19am

Hahahaha. I’m stoked for this thing.

ChaoticMonk · December 21, 2013, 9:57am

Paradise Arcade comes up with the coolest stuff!

armi0024 · December 21, 2013, 10:07am

Thanks Chaotic an Inendoi…
Kept thinking of this at work but can’t get on Youtube

sethian0 · March 6, 2014, 11:32am

when…

NENDO · September 19, 2014, 1:36am

I’m still considerably hype for this. Salivating, really.

Magenta got some exposure in Japan this week. iplaywinner just published a piece on it.

sethian0 · September 24, 2014, 5:56am

MUST HAVE

armi0024 · September 24, 2014, 8:48am

The new non-contact progammable joystick made it`s debut in Tokyo! Look for beta testing to start soon.

With 3 years of getting this right we have finally come to the point where we are ready to start showing the world the stick that made us so excited.
The reaction at TGS was You can change how the game is played! This is the biggest tech to hit in years!

We are really excited, did a few revisions of the software and hope to add on some great video shortly!

sethian0 · September 24, 2014, 9:25am

Good shit bryan!!! Take my moneys!!!

armi0024 · September 24, 2014, 9:43am

We are playing around with how this is going to play out.

We may run a Kickstarter to bump quantities and drop pricing. I think we can get much better pricing on these if we get the quantity up with an intial order.

emphatic · September 24, 2014, 7:56pm

So, will it be possible to cycle user defined modes (8-way, 4-way, etc) with the small black button? And would it be possible to extend that button to a small harness so your could have an option button anywhere you want (outside the panel/case)?

armi0024 · September 24, 2014, 8:19pm

On the current revision of the board the small black button allows for direct intervention without connection to a USB. We are doing on more revision before launch and will be adding some features and optimizing the set up. I do think that 8 way/4 way etc is interesting in some communities, but not here. However, being able to adjust between different presets for different games may be very interesting here.