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No, it's actually pretty simple... I can get you the pinout for player 3-4
if you need it (I'll just have to look at mine, figuring out ground is the
most interesting part).
If you want to go the optical route you're going to need an I40 board to
encode everythign to send to the main board. They tend to be a little
flakey and somewhat hard (well... quite hard actaully) to find (I traded the
two I had about 2 months or so ago).
Honestly, I've played both (optical and switch), and aside from the optical
being a bit "smoother" I don't see any difference in play quality.
steve
"Dave W." <nomail@my.house> wrote in message
news:ln0561h39aldjhac3huabef03heeuklnf7@4ax.com...
> Thanks Steve, I didn't know that. I figured the joysticks would have
> to be replaced by opticals for sure.
>
> On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 12:48:17 GMT, "Steve Muccione"
> <home*DOT*muccione@verizon.net> wrote:
>
>>FYI, the blitz series does NOT need 49-ways to run... there's another dip
>>(don't remember, but I can look it up if needed) that allows you to run
>>8-ways in place of the 49-ways (which need a working I40 to make happen).
>>Strange thing though... apparently midway only uses 8 of the 49
>>directions!
>>Looking at the manual and the output of the I40, it only encodes 8
>>direction
>>values (the remainder are marked not-used).
>>
>>"Dave W." <nomail@my.house> wrote in message
>>news:uasv5111pu6suboepr60bt6efqrg3ee8um@4ax.com...
>>> Just wanted to confirm... do all the NFL Blitz games (Blitz, Blitz 99,
>>> Blitz 2000, 2000 Gold) use a medium res monitor? Klov says they all
>>> do, but I really thought that the original Blitz was a standard
>>> resolution monitor.
>>>
>>> Thanks in Advance
>>>
>>
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