i bought a happ 360 years ago but I gave up trying to use it because it was a hassle to assemble.
I just installed the Rollie tonight and I have my brown USB wire in the vcc screw slot on my ps360+ I twisted the 5+v for the Rollie with that brown USB wire and maybe it has nothing to do with it but no response from the ps3 and on win7 game settings it sees a left when it’s physically neutral, it can do the left hemisphere but no right side directions. I am not sure what I’m doing wrong.
Can Spark CE/Rollie Flash be used in arcade cabinets? Example: Taito Type X2 (for KOF XIII Climax) or maybe Tekken Tag Tournament 2. I’m wondering about the voltages and connectors being compatible or not.
Yes you can. 5 volts is common in all arcade machines
How about connectors?
Edit: just read that Taito x2 brings 4x usb 2.0 connectors but I dunno if it would work out of the box with these sticks.
Edit 2: Do any optical pcbs work with Happ sticks?
The Spark and the Flash are designed for the Sanwa JLF. The Ascii Optical PCB would also work, it can be gutted from a Ascii optical joystick and transplanted into a JLF.
The short answer is NO. The Optical PCBs on the market does not work with a Happ.
Happ has their own line of optical sticks, although in my opinion they are lacking.
Suzo optical is a much better if you are looking for american style but they are rare and pricey.
How about connectors?
For the power, one wire to the VCC and other to GND
The rest you wire up as you would any joystick.
Is this a common issue with the rollie optical FLASH1’s?
I used it on a round2 madcatz TE 360 pcb (jumping the main usb vcc/redwire). It works normally, execution is great, nothing lags.
but it’s finicky is some other ways.
-Like turning on your xbox360 console with the guide button doesnt work.
-also turning on your 360 with the joystick (madcatz TE round2 that has the FLASH1 pcb) already connected, it doesn’t read the stick, i’d have to plug it when the console is already on.
I feel like its voltage issue, or something, but FLASH1’s are meant to work with 5V right? just curious if this happens to anyone else…
it’s not really that big of a deal, but ofc I worry that it might ruin something in the long run.
Where to buy the new Happ opticals and why do you think they are lacking? do they lack sensitivity adjustement?
There is no new ones, just old discontinued product thats floating around
So my replacement johnny sent me worked like a champ. Just gotta figure out now what i did wrong to my shaft cause it seems shorter since i took it apart the shaft cover doesn’t fit now.
Has anyone considered making a Seimitsu optical? After a day or so of searching, I haven’t found anything that implies anyone has had any success in it.
Happ/Suzo , Sanwa, MAS, Ascii and I think maybe IL made a optical joystick
Toodles made a optical board for the JLF as well.
Paradise Arcade working on something but I can’t confirm detail or if its an actual optical
Sega did something similar with Hall Effect sensors. Which work similar to Optical but with magnetic waves instead of light.
I made an optical LS 55, however, it played like one of the old Wico Perfect 360s, since I used the Wico optical base. It was a mess, but was a lot of fun. Ran it gateless so it felt nothing like a Seimitsu stick apart from the spring.
I never took pictures, unfortunately. I would like to revisit the Seimitsu optical idea, since I prefer less throw and engage over the looser (and more forgiving) Sanwa feel.
My favorite stick currently is my Suzo Inductive with Kowal’s JP shaft mod. Not sure it qualifies as an ‘optical’ since it uses induction, but its lacking physical switches which I guess is the point.
Oh it was Wico I was thinking about.
Wico experimented with stuff before anyone else in arcade controls.
Oh and fwiw… The Suzo Inductive is such a strange beast that I wouldn’t even compare it to an American style stick. Its closer to a Hitbox-- the throw and engage is seriously that tiny. After mashing on a Suzo, everything else feels super floppy.
On topic, I’m looking forward to trying the Spark CE at some point, as a sensitivity pot is very intriguing. I can only think of a handful of sticks with that feature.
Inductive is nuts! Spark CE is great! Suzo feels way tighter because of the very small (gate), small gate, smaller engage haha.
I was reading through some stuff yesterday about Klevers and I noticed IST or ISmall was releasing some Fanta optical stick. has any heard if this has made it to the states or if there is any review\play test\more info on it.
All I found was the 20 second video of him proving an optical stick makes no noise.
Thanks in advance!!!
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.
@armi0024 Cool, will the inductive PCB come with a suitable spring that feels close to a standard JLF? Also, 5-pin plug, does this mean that GND or +5V (or what will it run on) will be hooked up in another way?
Brian another question about your inductive will it be like this Suzo where you will need the ferrite core on the shaft to activate the directions or are you taking a different approach
Hey I should have replied to this earlier. If you want a cheaper alternative to the happ p360 look up MAS opticon (usually on ebay) MAS makes their own. Not quite a p360 but close. I heard it feels like the original competition gate (i think they make them out of new happ comps).
Any who, hope this helps.