Crap. Finally I find a button I love and they start disappearing. No one had stock of these really for a while though.
Thatâs⌠bizarre, to say the least. No less scummy, though.
I personally have no attachment to Crown/Samducksa or any other Korean-style parts (only ever installed them on a stick for a customer), but options for the masses were always good.
There is MiSTer FPGA Core - Arcade DoDonPachi work in progress
https://twitter.com/terminator2k2/status/1294577343701430272
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202s are kinda sus anyways. Iâve had 2 24mm go bad on me already, and itâs only been a few months.
Feel great, seem to be pretty flimsy, sadly.
Not sus for me. Did you try to swap switches? Iâve yet to have a single one fail on me.
So say someone wanted to build a K-stickâŚ
Is buying parts from Arcade Shockâs remaining inventory, supporting them/the FGC; Or would you just be exacerbating the situation, since a true 100% cold turkey boycott of the brands sends the strongest FU message to Crown Samducksa?
In my personal opinion I think Arcade Shock would want all their stock of Samducksa gone so youâd probably be doing them a favor with buying it so they can make room for more Sanwa or Seimitsu parts.
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I didnât do anything to them. I honestly think it might be the mx silver switches. I donât feel like i hit too hard, but both of them had the same problem. They wouldnât register anything if you press too hard. and the weird thing is, if you pressed down, then added a few more grams of pressure, the registering of a button press would disappear.
It was my right directional button on my hitbox each time. Never happened with sanwas
Some people on Reddit complained that swapping switches ruins the terminal contact points and that aluminum foil is needed to be added to close the gaps. Most of what I read on this came from people rocking 24mm.
While Iâve not encountered the need for that, swapping switches on 24mm opaque SDB-202s requires extreme/unnecessary precision to get everything lined up properly. I had to disassemble and reseat switches on my 24mms several times to ensure inputs. 30mm switch swaps are easy.
I could be wrong, but I donât think Crown assumed people would be modding their buttons, whichâwhen considering (1) the community youâre releasing products into and (2) the modular nature of Cherry MX switches in the first placeâis really fucking dumb.
I love the responsiveness and lack of baby-waking click/clacks, but if any of these buttons fail, the switches get extracted and these all go in the recycle bin.
This is a great opportunity for GamerFinger to jump on this and expand their line with more colors. Those buttons rock, but their color-game is C- at best right now
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Plus I canât get behind hexagonal button rims
That should still be able to run Everquest 
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Anyone seen the price of the Satiator ?
$260, with the first 100 going on sale to Patreon subscribers within 7 days at a $15 discount.
https://www.retrorgb.com/satiator-price-availability-revealed.html
If I been putting into that patreon account for the last 4 years to fund the R&D on this thing, the last thing I want to do is have to spend $250 on a device where there plenty of cheaper options.
Good thing I already got 2 MODE ODEs.
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That dude is either greedy AF or completely out to lunch. When I read the price on Retrorgb I laughed. That âSega Saturn cracked after 20 yearsâ video up on YouTube was released 4 years ago (4 damn years?!). Guyâs been bleeding patreons for nearly half a decade, now THIS price?
You know youâre doing it wrong when Terraonionâs undercutting you 
P.S. apologists are in full effect on Reddit
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Until recently I still felt the Satiator was vaporware.
Yeah beta units came out, but I never heard someone using Patreon to fund R&D.
Kickstarter and Indigogo yeah, I think Kickstarter needs a working prototype for physical devices first before you can start. Media like games donât have to have anything made beyond concepts.
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Still keeping it nouveau-retro, if anyoneâs intersted:
XStation pre-order opens tomorrow 9AM PST
ReSaturn PSU, pretty sure this pre-order is open now
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Iâve got both of Rexusâ PSUs (Dreamcast & Saturn) in antistatic bags, in a box, after Voultar went on a Twitter tirade about how 3rd party PSUs poorly regulate power delivery to consoles.
His gripe was for the DreamPSU. Does that also affect these as well? I hope someone competent tests them to find out if they are good (or not).
There still old PSUs that I rather throw out than reuse. C64 and Atari 2600 adapters are destin for the trash bin.
Yeah, Iâm not sure how widespread the situation is; I donât know if the tests have spanned on other PSUs as well.
I know I mentioned it around here before, but I actually prefer the stock Dreamcast PSU over any replacements. Sure, it might lower the internal temperature by a couple of degrees, but will that actually change anything in the long run anyways? Plus, I much prefer to have a standard AC cable instead of an external power brick; keeps the system more compact and âportableâ.
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I ended up recapping the OG DC/SAT PSUs and called it a day. The only major benefit to these other PSU boards is having the opportunity to use a split cable adapter and have one brick for multiple consoles (that also assumes you wonât have them powered on at the same time).
Iâve yet to read about a single GDEMUâd DC failing due to overheating. Could it happen? Sure, but until itâs established just WHAT might fail (and how probable [it] may fail) with real reports, these boards are really just a solution looking for a problem.
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