on the menu today
let's see which one works
back to you perifractic! welcome
a long time ago in a galaxy far far away and perifractic was playing with his cock pit
arcade machine his atari star wars cockpit arca-- oh hello chip dippers uh sorry i didn't
see you there but yes this is of course the atari star wars that myself and seanyfractic
made well a long time ago in the same galaxy that was of course before the evil order 66
erm covid 19 wrecked havoc wreaked havoc on planet earth but for now there is a problem
that has been uh bugging me uh ever since i started playing with it - playing with the
machine this the steering yoke it's really good however sometimes it's really bad in
that it just completely sticks in the top right corner of the game when you're playing
the game let me give you an example of how that looks
and yeah instead of the original game for this test i'm playing the empire strikes back
strikes crack "he could destroy us"
and i was surprised to discover that this game's actually even more fun than the original
"there's a meteorite that hit the ground near here"
gonna check it out, won't take long
"droid of some kind" thanks hun, er han
and when we shoot the tops of the probe droids like this it actually stops their ability
to tell the empire all about our base - it is a hidden base after all
"the force is with you" thanks annie
okay luke will do, you want to see some trick for frying flying could be frying yolks later
anyone know the odds of successfully navigating an asteroid field
turns out it was one to one
and sod's law it's not getting stuck in oh there has just done it so the cursor was stuck
so i've never been able to get to the top of the high scores
and that's not the only issue with their yoke you might remember the questionable soldering
quality found during our original install presumably done by this guy
so i think we need a better quality yoke and luckily for us glen planamento from glen's
retro show has actually created a better steering yoke that is backward compatible a with a
real cockpit arcade machine and not that this one isn't real but it's also compatible with
this the arcade one up version that we converted here
and i've got the yolk inside this box now just before we unbox it fully or teaser let's
just unravel these wires here
just just just unravel i'm just going to pull these apart here at the center it should be
quite easy
i'll do that in a future episode but yes here it is
so it explains how this gives us a lot of advantages
including non-contact mechanical structure with magnetic sensing technology to drive
the oak controller no gears no potentiometer like the old one used to have this maximizes
precision durability and the stability of the yoke controller uses the standard usb
interface recognized as a gamepad on windows etc and physical inertia centering mechanism
all the buttons are recognized as independent gamepad controller buttons complete metal
structure even a mouse mode and vertical direction reverse switching and it's ready for our arcade
one up star war arcade stars wars but of course also compatible with the original 1983 star
war arcade
so we are gonna make sure our arcade one up star war machine is power off and we're gonna
unplug the existing yoke connectors from the arcade one up machine pcb which reminds me
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because as we all know pcb stands for pilot controllers broken well not this one the old
one doesn't it anyway then we're going to dismount the original yoke mount this yoke
using the existing mounting hole plug the yoke harness into the pcb following the table
below and it's ready to go and s foils in attack position standing by you're all clear
i'm going in oh this is heavy
that is a quality piece of kit
but eagle-eyed viewers will have noticed a small problem with the yoke there's no logo
for copyright reasons of course so let's make our own i have a new compact smart cutting
machine my new toy let's get designing
all you have to do is type atari logo into your google search or your preferred search
engine of course click on images download your favorite version for me it's just the
basic black and white logo load it into the smart cutting machines program set your desired
size and cut away
i took the time to measure the yoke to make sure that we have the perfect fit
so now we are back to our transfer tape our weeding tool our scraper and our original
pieces
now that we have weeded all the additional scraps it's time to put it on the transfer
tape
and just like that we have two atari logos ready to go let's see which one works back
to you perifractic
who was that woman does anyone know? only yoking i should add that ladyfractic is also
a seamstress and made this custom fit cushion for the arcade 2 which gets the seal of pawproval
but would you guys like to see more of her including dedicated ladyfractic videos with
no perifractic in sight "not bloody likely!" well even if you would unlike me she currently
has a real job or three but if we reach our patreon lady fractic goal it'll enable her
to instead do more stuff for you at perifractic's retro "lady fractic!" er ladyfractic's retro
recipes
but from sticking it to employers back to these stickers and let's try this let's try
this pink one first
red five i'm going in
oh but it's funny when she does it
fine support below
"he could destroy us" yeah i could could destroy you yeah better be careful oh i just haha
you can't script this stuff haha
arcade wrong way up
because
whoops
that's what she said
come on guys stop fighting over the yolk
yes
it's a bit concerning how juddery the cursor is here but puppyfractic is about to inform
me that that's because of the new yolk's more granular resolution and it only affects the
menu screen hello thank you for telling me all that
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and as promised it really is silky smooth in the actual game here i'd say it's about
10 smoother on screen than the original yoke looked
as for the feel of the yoke itself it really does feel like a proper bit of kit in your
hands i think lu skywalker would be happy with this in his x-wing and it's definitely
more sturdy than the original with a better bounce back to center and no top right cursor
fault so far like i had before fingers crossed and i say all of that without any disrespect
to arcade one up putting together what they did for the money that they did is fantastic
really and you get what you pay for which is fair enough it just means that this is
a worthy optional upgrade and highly recommended my only small complaint is about the buttons
the good news is these two extra function buttons on the back that you can reach round
to and map to things like start or coin however for me the main fire buttons feel slightly
less rounded on the fingers so they're a little less comfy but i learned to just hold them
a bit differently and use the front buttons too so it doesn't really detract too much
from the overall improvements i also found i was getting higher scores by using the front
buttons as well anyway overall retro recipes gives this exciting yolk four and a half chips
out of five i do like to dip chips in york don't you anyway the link is in the description
so go give glenn your support as for us i'm off to finally hopefully get to the top of
the high school chart and we'll be back soon with another excellent retro recipe until
then thanks for watching support below and cheerio
testing testing 123, testing the tiny microphone foo foo foo, testing the tiny microphone
yeah that's cool huh (loud lick)
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