What is involved with the analog positioning problem again? Any plausible solutions?
This is what the control panel looks like:
That green mound in the center that you put the pool cue in... it slides up and down, left and right (hence all of the arrows) and this adjusts the striking point on the back of the ball... so if you wanted to hit the ball off center toward the right, you'd slide this slightly to the right before using the pool cue.
That sliding position produces an analog signal. You can't really hook up an analog stick because an analog stick has a spring that returns it to center so you'd have to hold the stick still while you use the cue (or the trackball, assuming you're using the 4PDT switch setup I described above).
If you don't connect anything to the analog inputs it assumes you have the mound pushed all the way right and all the way down, so you'd always be hitting the ball off center from the lower right.
The simplest solution to this would be to hook up 2 pots to the analog inputs, that way you could just turn the pots to adjust the position, unlike an analog stick they will stay in the position you set them at, which is what you want.
So I guess if you had a Virtua Golf panel you could drill 3 little holes and mount the toggle switch and two trim pots with knobs and dual purpose that panel with this game.... as long as you left the switch in position 1 it would work with Virtua Golf without any problem since it would just ignore the analog inputs. I say Virtua Golf and not Outtrigger because if you drilled holes in an Outtrigger panel I would be so upset I'd never speak to you again and I'd spend my free time signing you up for spam, junk mail and telemarketing such that you would ever have enough free time to hack up another rare control panel again.