E-Limitator

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I'm so glad to present you the finalization of the E-Limitator PCB.

You all might know the problems that occur when you use an 8-Way-Stick for 4-Way-Games. If you don't push the stick exactly in one direction and two microswitches (or leafs) are pushed the same time, the game character might stay where it is instead of climbing up a ladder (Donkey Kong) or go down (Pac Man and other maze games). The switching mechanism is often not that easy to use....most of them have to be switched from under the panel.

The mode can be switched with a button and a RGB-LED shows the actual setting.

There are the following modes available: 2-way vertical, 2-way horizontal, 4-way and 8-way.

The motion filter E-Limitator analyzes and filters the users intended movement of the game figure. This way the ease of play of 2- and 4-way games with an 8-way joystick improves noticeable.

The PCB kit (just the pcb with parts....not assembled!!!) can exclusively be ordered at

www.arcadeshop.de

LINK


Assembly instructions: http://www.arcadeshop.de/images/specs/elimitator_install_en.pdf

Beside the RGB Display PunkRockCaveman has applied an 7 segment display to show the current mode.



2 ways vertical



2 ways horizontal



4 ways



8 ways



8 ways are displayed in top.

248 ways testing phase

Hi,

so here's a new project, called the 248 way switch.

This hardware will help you through pacman and donkey kong style 4 ways game on mame cabs. Everybody who has played such game with 8 way stick knows this problem:

- Mario hangs on the ladder
- Eating Pacman stucks at the wall

This problem is really degusting playing such games. Here's the solution. This hardware filters the 8 movement with an intelligent filtering algorithm to 4 ways. Playing is much enhanced in my opinion. However, testers are needed. Here're the test prototypes. Cyberbob and Edgearing from arcadezentrum will test this hardware. Report will follow.



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