OBSC30 are sanwa 30mm snap ins. They will work. In fact, any 30mm snap in will work (semitsu, sanwa, rollie). I highly recommend clear white buttons of course…
Video has been shot. I’m returning home from evo tomorrow and new info / videos / pictures will be made available by end of the week!
Availability should be soon. Everything is practically made, just waiting for toodles to put the finishing touches on his coding. As for pricing I’ll let toodles tackle that as he will be selling them off his site gdlk.co
I snapped a couple of pictures of the AE3 on Thursday evening. I can post them up when I get home in 10 hours if Toodles doesn’t mind and somebody else hasn’t beat me to it.
Meaning if I purchase the parts and stop by Fullerton, you’ll do the mod for free right? Otherwise, the way you’re talking seems like a baby can do this mod… like a retarded baby…
Unfortunately, I did not take any picture of the inside of the stick like I should have (shame on me,) so you will have to wait until Toodles arrives for more details on the install.
Alright, Im back, who has questions that need answering?
We had two demo sticks running the Remora controller and the ArcEye3 inserts, and the bum rush of customers we had Friday morning meant we were out of the few pieces we had with us in less than half an hour. Koogy and Markman came by with an emphatic ‘I WANT THAT NOW’ so I even had a few sold before the doors were open, and Im pretty sure the techs hanging with MadCatz had them installed and on display in an Evo stick within minutes, so really there were three different sticks showing them off.
When some more pictures of the Remora show up, Im sure a lot of this will click and come together for those who can’t picture how everything worked, but I’ll try to cover the highlights.
-AE3 is drill-less. They literally click onto the bottom of the button. It took a LOT of prototypes to nail down the specific shape and size used in the final result, and any of the techs that got to install them will agree that they remain VERY secure on the bottom of the button, with zero modification to the button itself, no opening of the button, absolutely zero possibility of it interfering with the movement of the plunger or otherwise even affecting the motion of the button.
-AE3 is solder-less. You can’t really see it in Helen Keller’s photos, but there is a four pin header on the AE3 that is very easily connected to. You can try to solder to it if you want, but I dont see why anyone would.
-AE3 will work on ANY snap-in transparent 30mm button. Sanwa OSBC-30, Seimitsu PS-14-K, and ‘Crystal/Rollie’ generic buttons. Seimitsu screw-ins are out because they use the much larger microswitch. If Sanwa makes transparent screw-ins in the future, I would expect it to work, but I can’t make any promises. Sanwa clear 24mm are out because there isn’t enough clearance between the microswitch and the bulbous protrusions on the bottom of the button. I expect that there are a whole bunch of other buttons the AE3 will easily work with, but they haven’t all been tested since our focus was the transparent models. Maybe these would look amazing with pearlescent buttons, but we haven’t tried and make no claim about how they work on anything other that transparent.
And for the Remora
Remora is an RGB LED controller make specifically for MadCatz FightStick brands, both PS3 and 360 versions, dual modded or not. Installation on anything else would be quite unsupported, but possible for a skilled modder in a common ground stick.
Installation is ridiculously easy. On dual modded sticks that have access to a VCC screw terminal, no soldering is neccessary. On 360 versions, the power wire can be shoved into a connector. Worst case, most difficult installation scenario is an un-modded PS3 version, which would require soldering exactly one end of one wire to power on the board. The other end of the power wire screws into a screw terminal on the Remora. The Remora replaces the existing button distribution board, so the only connections other than the one power wire are the two ribbons that already go to the existing button distribution board, and they plug right into the Remora. The Remora comes with ribbon cables that plug into the Remora, one for each button, and the other end of the ribbon ribbon cables have a four pin connector for the AE3 header, and two 0.110" QDs to go into the button microswitch.
Remora supports 8 RGB LEDs for the play buttons. The ones on display and sold at Evo didn’t have true 6 button support, but that will be added in time for release.
Something like 17 different display modes and 5 screensavers currently coded. If you have ideas for other display modes or anything you’d like to see, please suggest them and I’ll them asap. I have a LOT of room on the chip still to grow.
Both Remora and the ArcEye3’s are expected to be up for sale on the http://gdlk.co site before the week is out. prices are expected to be $4 for the ArcEye3, and $30 for the Remora kit. I hope you’ll see many more pictures and testimonials from Evo attendees before them, while I get to work on expanding the Remora code and working on documentation. If there’s any questions, feel free to post them up.
