Build #1 SFAE to THIS.
Build #2 2009 SDCC to THIS.
Build #3:
Goals:
WICO Perfect 360 Joystick
WICO Perfect 360’s Spill Resistant Pushbuttons
Smallish American style case with straight 6 or 8 button holes
Multi-Platform support
Custom Art
Custom Paint
A little additional intel arrived today in the mail:
It’s a tradeshow tape, I guess from back in the day when Perfect360 was still shill’n hard.
Hope it’ll be good for more info, screen caps, and at least I got an official sticker on the tap and some art on the VHS box… who knows, still have to unearth my old VCR to see what’s on this thing.
Now you just need the elusive hybrid spill proof button. Still optical but it has a optical sensor that looks to be housed in a switch like (only looks) container.
(middle buton)
I believe this was the one that @CUTWEST was going to send me until he lost it =) He did send me a white one though which is currently in my optical stick. THE HUNT CONTINUES!!!
If you don’t want to muck with digitizing the tape to put online, I know a guy would probably do it for free and treat it real nice in the process. Here’s his channel:
Got a chance, over the long 4th of July weekend, to dig this bad boy out of storage; In the hopes of creating the best possible analog to digital conversion setup I can provide for a $3 tape.
stay tuned…
I do have some new news though!!!
Took a deep breath, got brave, and opened one of these bad boys up.
I picked the one that was the most semi-used / looked to have the most miles on it.
Here are the disassembly pics, note there is some mummified glue on the base piece that gives up the ghosts after gently wiggling the base piece away from the housing piece:
The underside of the “plunger” piece:
Down the rabbit-hole of the “housing” piece:
And out the other side of the “housing” piece:
Close up of the Fire-the-Laser PCB in the “base” piece:
Another shot of all the pieces next to each other:
In all honesty I was gonna clean all the used buttons anyway; And boy am I glad that I went ahead and opened one, because even though they are advertized as spill resistant… theys is nots WAATAA proof, and I would’ve jacked them up had I used as much water as I ended up using to clean them. P.S. I soaked the yellow plastic pieces in a mix of warm water and dish soap for about 5mins, scrubbed them with a soft brush and cotton towel, and then left the parts to dry overnight.
Lastly…
Did some internets surfing and I think this is what you’re looking for @sethian0:
Greetings, I am looking to buy some of those optical buttons or make a trade, do you think you can help me out? I have a microswitch hyabusa joystick to trade, and a street fighter 4 ps3 collectors edition untouched, unopened still sealed. I also have some other things…
I sold off my collection recently, sorry. I have no further insides where to get theses. Just have to grind hard for it, reach out to people but be respectful of their boundaries and keep everything short conversations to the point. Most people dont care to get rid of theirs but money always talks.
