Totally not worth it, but still nice to have:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/SONY-GDM-FW900-24-TRINITRON-WIDESCREEN-PRO-DISPLAY/274486528955
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got my hex inverters in the mail (i ordered 3 because i have 3 sticks using hori mini pads) and wired them up like in this post:
ā-connect the ADC point from the pcb to pin 14 on the chip
-connect R2 and L2 to pin 2 and 4 on the chip
-connect pin 1 and 3 to their respective buttons
-connect 7 to groundā
one of my sticks is working fine, but for the other 2 the triggers go crazy for a bit after plugging in. did i just get some bad hex inverters? theyāre SN74HC14N.
I did try wiring pin 14 to usb vcc instead of the ADC point but that didnt help.
finally got around to paying shipping for the VLX I won. I made sure to do the protective packaging as well, since itās coming via Seamail, and not DHL. DHL was $250 to get it here, good lord. I donāt think Iāve ever noped out of something so quickly ever.
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My VLX has spent a couple of years in a box wrapped in a plastic bag in the attic.
Please get more use out of yours than Iāve got out of mine 
Yeah, VLX Kuro hasnāt gotten much use recently either.
When I got it, for a while I was using it pretty regularly on the PS4 mostly with SFV and DBFZ, with a bit of BBTAG and UNIEST. Then kind of stopped playing SFV, and moved onto playing DBFZ, BBTAG and UNICLR on the Switch instead, so Iāve been using my super-modded Exar Exaprize there.
My VLX Kuro has just beenā¦ sitting there on my TV stand since late 2018.
So I tested the 2 hex inverters that allegedly werent working by putting them in the stick that was working and it turns out thereās nothing wrong with the inverters themselves. Instead the pad pcbs im using go haywire when i connect an inverter. Guess im just gonna leave the triggers on their own common line.
Thatās very weird. These are Hori Minis? The DQ Slime themed ones?
I didnāt have any issues with the 2 that I did. Were there variants of the boards?..
No not the DQ ones, just regular black ones. https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B01A6MKVEG/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_qqPxFbYX56N5D I guess one thing I could try is adding resistors
EDIT: A 10k ohm resistor to the same IC pins connected to the signal lines fixed the issue, but its weird that I didnt need resistors in my other build using the same board.
Good to hear that you found a way to solve the issue.
I wasnāt even aware that there was non-DQ-Slime versions. And those are even cheaper than the ones I got last year during Black Friday (I think they were on sale at $40CAD at Best Buy)! Though the ones I got were for friends, so itās not coming out of my pocket. 
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Covid update, work is gonna have us work from home for the rest of 2020 
Giving us $500 to get our āhome officeā up to snuff.
Anyone know of a good standing desk ( preferably one with a SuperGun in/on/under it 
)
No but seriously if anyone knows of a good one, please recommend.
Lucky.
Weāre stuck working from home until at least Feb 2021, but our company isnāt giving us anything to help spruce up our home office, although we are allowed to āborrowā as much as we need from the office as we want (I have enough gaming monitors around, but some colleagues have been bringing home their officeās dual-monitor setups and stuff).
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Fightsticks subreddit is just chock-full of misinformation.
Dude on there stated that tactile switches like Cherry MX browns and clears do not work in Crown SDB-202 buttons.
I played SFA2 for two hours last night with sticks that had both. PSA: clears are too hard to press. Browns are dope (might need lubing though) though travel overall is less than PS-14-GNs. Feel is on point.
There are zero threads on here for those buttons. Might need to change that.
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Be the change you want to see.
Just do it!
Thatās Reddit in general.
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Dooooo it.
Iāve never used āstandardā mechanical switches like those in any application (although my wife has a mechanical keyboard).
Iād be interested to know about them in an arcade-stick scenario, and how each type fares/compares against the standard Sanwa/Seimitus that we all use.
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I agree, but their discord is a lot better. Spend a lot of my downtime there, along with a couple of other tech discords. Of course, that doesnāt count the many mechanical keyboard discords Iām in as well.
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To be believed?
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Yep. Thatās Reddit. Link literally made me LOL. Itās been a tough day (despite being the first day in the Bay Area in a while not having soot for air)
Thanks for the laugh 
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i like that current sticks will be supported next gen, not that im upgrading from my ps3, but still it is useful,
like this gen i can take my ps1 or ps3 sticks to friends house and use on his ps4 for some hyper fighting
thatāll be crazy, using a 20+ year old hrap on a ps5
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