You may like to add in a nut but i found this wasn't necessary. The lid should move fairly freely whilst still being fastened by the screw. So if you’re trying to hook up a active high spinner to a mouse PCB then X1 &X2 must not have any volts in natural position.
Gently screw and fasten the lid to the reusable tie Ok an easy way to think of how this all work is, an active high spinner causes movement on a high voltage (0v -> 5v) and a active low spinner causes movement on a low voltage (5v -> 0v).
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1 x Screw (preferably with needle point to make a hole in plastic lid and with screw head that is 'flat')įind centre of lid and create small hole (note:the blue-tack smudge in the pic was left over from earlier test) A short video showing how to adjust the sensitivity of your spinner in MAME so it feels close to the original machine.1 x Container Lid (the one I used is from an plastic milk bottle) = 40mm Diameter.1 x Valcro One-Wrap Reusable Ties / Or any reusable cable tie (any color) = 25mm x 200mm (this is just enough to get around the mouse).I am going to talk about optical spinners first, as they are the most common. There are two basic variety of spinners, optical and analog. You could easily adapt it further using high quality parts and make the spinner more permanent (possibly even spend hours making a 3d printable something) - but heck, as it stands this works as a low-fi method for casual paddle/spinner gaming. Spinner games dropped a bit in popularity in the early 1980s, but enjoyed a brief surge when Arkanoid was released (Arkanoid was probably the best spinner game ever made). HOWEVER this one is super quick to make, entirely reversable, and uses parts that most of people should have lying around nearby or easy to get access to.
Rather than mess with either an original paddle or breaking apart a perfectly good functioning usb mouse, i thought heck why not just make something that could slip over a normal mouse to add some extra retro gaming features.ĭisclaimer: While initially I thought i'd come up with a pretty original cool idea, once i started scanning the web to see if anyone else had used this idea before, I found few variations on the flipping-a-mouse-over-and-sticking-on-something-'wheel like' (there is also a nice hackaday article on someone made a tron controller).
I saw a few examples in the retro community where people were modifiying their original paddles using the parts from an old USB optiical mouse and solderding paddle buttons directly to the pcb. I had the idea for this while exploring options to convert my Atari 2600 paddles and C64 ones. A super quick (reversible) method of turning any USB optical mouse into a spinner or paddle for use with your favorite retro gaming emulators and play bat and ball style games (like Pong, Arkanoid).
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