Has anybody attempted to 'file' or somehow make small 'notches' at the 4 cardinal points of the 'gate' peice of plastic which prevents excess travel of the joystick?

Wouldn't that allow the non-diagonals to be hit more successfully? I'm sure I've seen 8 way joysticks on arcade machines which have an octagonal 'gate' which achieves the same sort of effect...

I guess it might be difficult to actually do, but looking at mine with the cap off, I'm sure it could be done if you were careful...

umm. for the years i've been trolling and posting on this forum, i've never heard of 1 single complaint about a GP32 having problems with a non diaganol. They've all been about the diagonals. So not sure why you would want to do this to begin with.

Doh! Wrong board - this should be on the GP2X board... any chance of a mod moving it please?

(Explains the lack of replies too...)

Moved

Cheers Lou...

...judging from the lack of responses, I'll have to try it myself and see how it pans out...

I think I know what you mean but I don't want to be the first to try it

you could just file the stick part of the joystick head into a squareish octagon too, thatd probably have much the same effect and its not such a big deal if you mess it up..

edit: ignore that, just noticed that it doesnt extend all the way down to the base.

I know what you mean, kind of like the gamecube joystick. I can imagine that I'd mess it up though and end up with the stick getting stuck in a little groove every time I press up...

sounds like it could really work to me

not gonna try it though