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[Mr.FoodMonster]

I had a fighter stick when I was (even) younger, so I had to get one for my rehashed collection. The first thing i did was un-screw the ball on the handle, i remember doing that all the time when i was bored, but the more i think about it, what WAS the purpose of it? Was there a 'baseball bat' type stick you could swap out for the ball? was it ever made? does anyone know? if in fact there is a baseball type addon, and anyone has it, how much you want for it? that little tiny ball was more suited for little kids then a teenager or adult.

[chrisbid]

i doubt it, the NES advantage was the same way. it was probably easier to manufacture that way

[ubersaurus]

It's pretty simple, actually.

Joysticks in Japan have that little ball on top of a thin stick, like the genesis arcade stick. It tends to give more precision then an american stick, to be honest. When they brought the sticks overseas, they didn't bother redesigning them.

[JB]

chrisbid said:

i doubt it, the NES advantage was the same way.  it was probably easier to manufacture that way

And the SNES Super Advantage, too.

I actually swapped my NES and SNES balls, because the SNES one was larger and mroe comfortable and I'v ebeen using the NES more.

ubersaurus said:

It's pretty simple, actually.

Joysticks in Japan have that little ball on top of a thin stick, like the genesis arcade stick. It tends to give more precision then an american stick, to be honest. When they brought the sticks overseas, they didn't bother redesigning them.

Yes, but why is it threaded on?

[bargora]

It's probably threaded on because it makes it easier to assemble. Not having the sticks in front of me, I might speculate that the ball is larger than the diameter of the opening that the stick passes through in the joystick housing.