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I'm going to have to claim my nerd creds here and inform Engadget that the actual mechanism used for the N64 joystick is different than GameCube or Wii controllers. The way it works is somewhat similar to how a trackball mouse monitors the motion of the ball with photodiodes, whereas a GameCube joystick uses a couple of potentiometers.