Are you using the new .mra system?
Usually problems with arcade cores are related to incompatible roms.
I highly recommend getting on the classic gaming discord mister channels, as theres a transition that is going on currently in the way arcade cores are pointed to their corresponding rom.
Actually No, I am obviously missing something as the MRA don’t seem clear to me
Ok, before you needed to build your own rom for a certain core, and the rom needed to be the one the core was developed for. Now you can just take a rom straight out of a mamepack and have an .mra file in the root of your arcade folder witch basically is what the osd will see first when browsing for arcade cores. This .mra file will point to the actual core and the rom and can be edited at will to point to any other rom thats compatible with a core. This currently requires some settings in the update.ini file to be edited if you want everything to update automatically. Theres also a new folder structure. Theres also a script floating around witch gets the roms for you but this is not and can not be on the official repo for obvious reasons. Atari forum and classic gaming discord, but also the changelogs on the github contain alot of info on the mra thing.
I’ve recently kinda left here for r/fightsticks on Reddit due to the tumbleweeds blowing around here these days. However, maybe it’s just me, but I find that sub infuriating. A bunch of posters there are arrogant and dumb as rocks. I notice myself hitting ‘block user’ more than I should. There’s a lot of misinformation and a just general lack of concern for anything other than “look at my dope new stick.”
/rant
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Yeah, the stuff that happened last year basically cut the forums base by like 75-80%. I’ve migrated over to GD now, and I barely touch Tech Talk now because of the inactivity.
I have little to no attachment to the any part of SRK other than Tech Talk, so I started here, and I’ll end here. If I leave SRKTT, I’ll be leaving SRK completely. 
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I do remember that last year when this was going down, the group moved to Discord initially; then into a FB group after that.
Never checked out the fb group but the technical know how of arcade stick modding was always here and its a shame that tech talk also lost its momentum along with the rest of the site. That arcade stick reddit group boring.
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Yeah I find myself finding most reddit subcommunities are a joke.
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So I bought this controller on eBay
It’s a Bally Astrocase controller, its a hybrid joystick and paddle and it looks like it’s in sorry shape by the cable. I just waiting on this and a replacement Sega Genesis controller cable to fix it up.
Shouldn’t be hard at all to repair but be fun.
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Yeah it gets tiring seeing people ask the same questions over and over again. Also a good amount of them are scared to modifying their stick or artwork. That’s probably why the Panthera EVO is popular there. I mean the worst thing you can do is strip a quick disconnect and it’s not hard to fix if you do that.
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Especially when all they have to do is hit up google.
Worst of all you got deadbeats who ask questions, people gave them the best answers they can find, pull resources and they will argue with the answer
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One of the sub mods created a noob FAQ/Sticky with a ton of links. It was really good! I commented that “I hope they read your post.” Next morning I woke up and checked and there was a deluge of the same basic posts, asking the same basic stuff.
Reddit is definitely a jack of all community trades…but seriously a master of none.
Street Fighter 3 running at a playable frame rate on a cheap handheld that can fit in your pocket
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Especially when all they have to do is hit up google. Worst of all you got deadbeats who ask questions, people gave them the best answers they can find, pull resources and they will argue with the answer
I mean, who Googles anything when you can just ask someone else? You mean I have to at least try to do something myself? Perish the thought…
I stumbled on a FB group. Never bothered checking Reddit (which can have some of the best and worst of the innanets at the same time).
I have little to no attachment to the any part of SRK other than Tech Talk, so I started here, and I’ll end here. If I leave SRKTT, I’ll be leaving SRK completely.
Kinda feel the same.
That and a lot of the dissatisfaction people have with the Post SRK FGC places come from the fact that they’re aren’t really about that life like Tech Talk was or SRK in general. When this place was popping, it was the place if you loved these things. You wanted to get good at Capcom fighting games in a serious way, this was the place. You wanted to learn a bunch of stuff related to stick, Tech Talk was the sickest. The important part is that you were rewarded for the effort. You wanted to look for something, you found the place and the community to get you there.
Now the FGC is for everybody and people gotta hold hands and If you call out actual scrubby shit it probably will get you somebody say “pls no bully”. The growth is nice and all that, but its hard to beat the feeling of being at a place that gets you in terms of something. You had to really love FGs and want to get good if you found this place. For the most part if you found TT, its because you were trying to do some shit and not fuck around about it (yeah, those people were here, but hella stuff got figured out that’s awesome).
Reddit and Twitter don’t get you, this was the website to get you for a lot of things.
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No idea where the ground gets oldered too. Also have to figure out which direction is which for the lever wires. But hey, its been pretty fun.
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Got around to turning an Atari Paddle from a plug-and-play game to a working single Paddle controller, then I realize some games dont always choose the Left or player 1 paddle for player one.
Need to add a DPDT switch in there.
I take photos when I get the switch put in.
Holy fucking shit is this subforum ridiculous with the info.
Massive thanks to all of you guys for being incredible posters that have left a veritable treasure trove of information scattered all over the place. I’m about to solder some additional stuff on the stick and didn’t know how to go about figuring out which direction was which in the wire harness. Little bit of searching SRK and found this diagram used as a reply in a thread:
that may not have been created directly by an SRKer, but going through threads probably gives me info faster than google.
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Soldered everything, resoldered, when all the buttons were finally working…the thing just stopped working altogether.
I’ve resoldered all the grounds and some of the buttons and no luck.
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