AFAIK, a lot of the early game system joysticks were merely switches ("go
left, go right"), not using potentiometers at all.

I've got a box full of a good assortment of game joysticks/controllers.. If
anybody needs anything or wants me break some open and see what the guts
look like.

Cheers, nick

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> Hi Tomek (I assume, this is your name)
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>> did anybody try hooking up an external joystick to a-174 is it
>> possible
> You mean: if the original is broken Or use a external joystick (e.g
> from a table top game) instead of the original joystick Or in addition
> to the original joy stick
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> Basically it should not be difficult. The problem might be, that
> external controllers use individual values for the potentiometer
> resistance. Example: I have two simply external joy sticks from an old
> video game. They have 40k for the y-axis and 500k for the x-axis. So
> these won't fit for the A-174 assumingly. I use them simply connected to
> a 5V power line and the centerpin is used as cv out.
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> If you are able to modify the A-174, it is not too difficult for you to
> build a simple joystick module from the scratch.
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> Florian
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