Custom Arcade Stick Thread

PostRe: Custom Arcade Stick Thread by **mcjihge2** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 5:42 pm

Drunken_Master wrote:Would have like to have seen photos of you stripping the Madcatz, mounting the PCM in the box and all that other jazz.

Ive got a dirty dyslexic mind.

EDIT: bumped to new page

Yoshimi wrote:I have! Take a look on my blog.

Yoshimi wrote:A few more pics. I've also ordered a circular gate for the stick.

PostRe: Custom Arcade Stick Thread by **TigaSefi** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 6:09 pm

mcjihge2 wrote:
Drunken_Master wrote:Would have like to have seen photos of you stripping the Madcatz, mounting the PCM in the box and all that other jazz.

Ive got a dirty dyslexic mind.

EDIT: bumped to new page

Yoshimi wrote:I have! Take a look on my blog.

Yoshimi wrote:A few more pics. I've also ordered a circular gate for the stick.

Shame you didn't print it out properly according to your blog picture. Surely you could have photoshopped it to fit the perspex ?

PostRe: Custom Arcade Stick Thread by **Yoshimi** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 7:29 pm

TigaSefi wrote:Shame you didn't print it out properly according to your blog picture. Surely you could have photoshopped it to fit the perspex ?

Not sure what you mean.

Yoshimi wrote:
pedro wrote:
Yoshimi wrote:It’s done!! Finally got my buttons send from Gremlin Solutions, and my mate soldered the pcm last night. A lot easier with thin wire. I’m pretty pleased with the end product. My box is rather amateurish - I managed to crack the plexiglass in the corner, and might replace it at some point. It works a treat though.

Picture Here

How difficult was the wiring? Did you have to do any desoldering? Also did you use an octagonal gate & how hard was it to install?

Although I had my mate to the wiring, I'd say it was a easy job. This was with a Madcatz Gamestick pcm board, one of the best for hacking. No desoldering needed.

My joystick came with a square gate. Installing an octagonal gate would be very easy, four screws. I'm very tempted to buy one - the square gate takes some getting used to. But it's yet more expense.

PCB, not PCM. PCB is "Printed Circuit Board". I dunno what PCM is short for: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=PCM&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

YouTube

Perspex can be a right tricky bastard to drill through without cracking.

PostRe: Custom Arcade Stick Thread by **SEP** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 7:34 pm

Ord wrote:Perspex can be a right tricky bastard to drill through without cracking.

Put a piece of sellotape over where you want to drill, and use high torque and low speeds.

PostRe: Custom Arcade Stick Thread by **TigaSefi** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 7:57 pm

Yoshimi wrote:
TigaSefi wrote:Shame you didn't print it out properly according to your blog picture. Surely you could have photoshopped it to fit the perspex ?

Not sure what you mean.

You have a picture with Street Fighter IV along the bottom but it's been cut off due to the size of your custom base when I would have tried to rejig it so it's fitted it perfectly.

PostRe: Custom Arcade Stick Thread by **Yreval** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 8:08 pm

You'll probably want to replace the plexiglass, but apart from that, nice work Yoshimi.

TheTurnipKing wrote:PCB, not PCM. PCB is "Printed Circuit Board". I dunno what PCM is short for: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=PCM&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

Wikipedia wrote:Pulse-code modulation (PCM) is a digital representation of an analog signal where the magnitude of the signal is sampled regularly at uniform intervals, then quantized to a series of symbols in a numeric (usually binary) code. PCM has been used in digital telephone systems and 1980s-era electronic musical keyboards. It is also the standard form for digital audio in computers and the compact disc "red book" format. It is also standard in digital video, for example, using ITU-R BT.601. Uncompressed PCM is not typically used for video in standard definition consumer applications such as DVD or DVR because the bit rate required is far too high. However, the next-generation blu-ray format, which has a capacity far superior to previous media, sometimes allows producers to include the full PCM soundtrack.

Ah, I thought I'd heard it someplace before. Right enough, it would be in relation to audio codecs and the like. But all by the by.

PostRe: Custom Arcade Stick Thread by **Yoshimi** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 9:58 pm

TigaSefi wrote:
Yoshimi wrote:
TigaSefi wrote:Shame you didn't print it out properly according to your blog picture. Surely you could have photoshopped it to fit the perspex ?

Not sure what you mean.

You have a picture with Street Fighter IV along the bottom but it's been cut off due to the size of your custom base when I would have tried to rejig it so it's fitted it perfectly.

I'd actually printed two versions at the perfect size (one with the logo, one without). I wasn't sure which to use, and the people I asked all prefered the one without the logo.

Yeah, PCM was a typo. Meant PCB of course!

PostRe: Custom Arcade Stick Thread by **Akai XIII** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 10:46 pm

Yoshimi wrote:A few more pics. I've also ordered a circular gate for the stick.

Is that the MadCatz arcade stick?

I managed to find one at a carboot last week (With Frogger, AstroPop and Time Pilot) for £4 so it's no great loss if I mess it up (which I wont - someone else will do the soldering). How much did it cost (buttons/stick)?

PostRe: Custom Arcade Stick Thread by **mas22** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 10:51 pm

Don't know if it was posted yet, but has anyone else seen this chap's Youtube blog?
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p ... 98B42C3878
Not a total mod, but he hated the feel of the MadCatz fight stick so he shipped in some more authentic japanese components for tournament stick quality game play.

mas22 wrote:Don't know if it was posted yet, but has anyone else seen this chap's Youtube blog?
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p ... 98B42C3878
Not a total mod, but he hated the feel of the MadCatz fight stick so he shipped in some more authentic japanese components for tournament stick quality game play.

I got my stick parts today. Only thing is, I still need a new mounting plate for the joystick because Madcatz decided to GLUE the screws that secure the mounting plate into the stick and I've stripped one of them trying to get it out :fp:

I'm looking forwards to getting a new mounting plate and actually fitting the Sanwa stick as well but for now I've got the stock stick and the Sanwa buttons fitted and frankly even that feels like a colossal improvement.

Was quite impressed to see that the washer in my Fightstick hadn't slipped and damaged the PCB at all though, so apparently it beat the odds!

PostRe: Custom Arcade Stick Thread by **Pedro** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 9:50 pm

Think I'm only gonna replace the square plate for an octagonal one. I don't see the Sanwa buttons adding much to my game at the minute, but the ease to pull off circular motions definitely will.

pedro wrote:Think I'm only gonna replace the square plate for an octagonal one. I don't see the Sanwa buttons adding much to my game at the minute, but the ease to pull off circular motions definitely will.

I got an Octagate, but to be honest, I'm used to the square gate now, so it's still just sitting in the box my parts came in.

PostRe: Custom Arcade Stick Thread by **Yoshimi** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 10:20 am

TheTurnipKing wrote:
pedro wrote:Think I'm only gonna replace the square plate for an octagonal one. I don't see the Sanwa buttons adding much to my game at the minute, but the ease to pull off circular motions definitely will.

I got an Octagate, but to be honest, I'm used to the square gate now, so it's still just sitting in the box my parts came in.

I'm finding my circular gate a vast improvement. Although I could have gotten used to the square gate.

PostRe: Custom Arcade Stick Thread by **Poncho** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 10:32 am

I can't use anything other than a square gate. I find charge characters are much better for it.

PostRe: Custom Arcade Stick Thread by **Pedro** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 2:17 pm

TheTurnipKing wrote:
pedro wrote:Think I'm only gonna replace the square plate for an octagonal one. I don't see the Sanwa buttons adding much to my game at the minute, but the ease to pull off circular motions definitely will.

I got an Octagate, but to be honest, I'm used to the square gate now, so it's still just sitting in the box my parts came in.

Buy it off you if you want?

PostRe: Custom Arcade Stick Thread by **tomvek** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 4:02 pm

Shoebox Fight Sticks

A $300 tournament edition fightstick on the gray market? Screw that. Reader Rotundo made one for himself and another for his friends out of $40 in spare parts and two shoeboxes. Oh, and one's wireless.

He picked up a couple of Happ joysticks and 14 buttons for $35, then set about taking apart some Xbox controllers to wire the sucker up. Most people make their homebrew sticks out of wood, but Rotundo had neither "spare wood" nor "any decent tools to cut said wood." Looking around, he settled on two Nike shoeboxes, which he says can take a beating.

The blue-black box at left is his "Tournament Edition,' since it's wireless. The gold edition at right, "unlike the official Mad Catz sticks, has a way to hold the cord, since it's well ... a shoebox." Here you can see the innards.

Kudos to Rotundo. This is just the kind of Depression-era improvised engineering that'll help get us through the hard times.

http://kotaku.com/5189361/kick-ass-with ... ght-sticks

tomvek wrote:Kudos to Rotundo. This is just the kind of Depression-era improvised engineering that'll help get us through the hard times.

Other common materials for "ghetto sticks" include chessboards and tupperware containers.

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