so thats what u did with the buttons with. Nice mod too dude.
I see what you did thereâŚ
It feels to meâŚas soon as my HRAP EX SE gets inâŚeverybody will have their sticsk moddedâŚand Iâll be the only one with the stock stick fresh out the box
soâŚto meâŚpeople will go from stock to original
then there will be no more stock sticksâŚexcept mine .so dat would make me the original!
muuuahahhahahaha haha? hahahahaha ha?
oh and umâŚi enjoy looking at every last fightstickâŚspecially the ones with wood âŚits sad the wood being used is better than my dining room set
if i choose to mod âŚi have to think of somethinâ that hasnât been done yetâŚhmmmmm
side questionâŚi havent found ANY review on the HRAP EX SEâŚbut Iâm guessing its worth 167.89? being the fact I donât have to open it for jack squat
amazing stuffâŚthat akuma scroll one is jus 2 gudâŚimaine that with sagat in the bakgroundâŚor goukenâŚ
why would anyone use a 7 button layout? okay⌠8 button I understand, 6 button I understand, but 7 button?
7 is a lucky number.
For a mix between games that require 6 buttons and ones that require 4. That extra button on the end helps if your used to 4 button cabinets I guess.
How is it any different from a 8 button layout bar the addition of an extra button? Usually youâll find the extra 2 buttons being used with in-game macroâs, button combinations or just there for navigating menuâs easier anyway when in use with a game that is designed for 6 buttons.
Its a very nice case BTW ecKsniNe. Iâm sure Nareg will love it.
Okay, I wasnât dissing, I was kinda asking, because Iâm gonna mod my HRAP3 and I thought about using button plugs on the last 2 buttons, but maybe I should mod 7 buttons and only use a plug on one button?
But 4-button games usually are played by the first button in bottom row and 3 ones in upper rowâŚ
That was just me answering what I thought anyway, I dont really know his specific reasoning for asking for a 7 button layout but its just the assumption I made thinking in the mindset if I wanted one. Its basically just the viewlix layout with the optional button added.
If your happy playing on a 6 button layout I would button plug them both. I prefer a 6 button layout and switching from a custom to a TE theyâre even more annoying. I just have them disabled but I think I plan on grabbing some custom plexi and just covering over the holes.
custom Fei long artwork
sry bout that lol
This really isnât the place for art/template requests. There are threads for that.
Thankkkks! 
Ty. Looking forward to it!
Hey thanks bro. IIRC your sticks arenât too shabby either!!
Thanks. Yeah itâs actually kind of a pain in the ass to work with cocobolo. A lot of stuff wonât stick to it. Plus this dust really irritates some people.
Thanks! Yeah, Cocobolo is really cool wood. I have seen so many different unique pieces. I like that one because it sort of looks like waves of fire!
Hey man, appreciate it. It has shellac based sanding sealer, then it has polycrylic, then clear polyurethane.
lol! Thanks man! The viewlix layout in general isnât my favorite either, but itâs not all that bad, I guess.
Hey thanks broken. The stuff you do with acrylic ALWAYS impresses me. I would love to mess with a CNC, I bet itâs so fun! Keep up your good work too my friend!
Thanks man! And, usually that is correct. Neo geo MVS/AES fans tend to go for the 7 button layout in console sticks to preserve the MVS layout on the top row. However, I am not sure if that is the case in this particular instance.
But the Neo geo games do not really NEED 7 buttons, do they? Iâm new to them so will I be missing something when I go for 6-button layout? I mean, I play SF:IV and SC4 atm but Iâm gonna get KOFXII, blazblue, MVC2, Tekken 6, SF2HDremix etc. in the future, I also use it to play some mame games, mugen (sometimes), doujin fighting games, puzzle games, shmups etc⌠mostly games that were designed for arcades but not games that feel awkward with it like Little big planet etc âŚ
Neo games use 4 buttons in a fairly straight layout. So a seven button gives you 4 across the top to play them.
Newer Neo releases in arcades just use the 4 left buttons a lot of the time anyway. If you arenât a Neo regular, donât worry about it.
I donât get the 7 button either⌠people say itâs for the neo-geo layout, but I donât know if thatâs true (or if it is, it doesnât make sense to me), because the neo geo layout is much closer to using short/jab/strong/fierce on the viewlix layout (which you still get with 6 buttons), then using the straight top row. Neither one are an exact match, but it looks a little closer to me because of the way the neo geo layout is curved.
EDIT: just looking through some pictures cuz LuckyDay was saying the buttons were laid out straight, and I thought I might be remembering it wrongâŚthe top few are âfairly straightâ, but the first button is definitely set lower than the rest
http://www.joystixamusements.com/photos/NEO1820.JPG
and in this one they just look crazy curved, haha. Is this not a standard layout?..cuz the panel looks pretty official
Depends on if youâre talking about the arcade control panels which used a much straighter layout, or the home neo-geo sticks, which used a more curved layout.
The top four on the Viewlix are really close to the MVS arcade panels.
idk I guess itâs a tradeoff⌠to me it looks too straight- but more like the original button spacing, whereas if you use short/jab/strong/fierce you get more of the curved feel but itâs too curved so the A button is not spaced out how it would be (and a little lower). I personally still feel that layout immitates the original better- but I guess I can see why people would want the other one. meh.
The original MVS layout is very straight. The top four of the Viewlix is almost exactly like it.
Personally I like the curved, but for people who grew up playing on an arcade, the straight probably feels just right.
Ecksnineâs sticks look exactly right as far as the original layout goes.
haha, I guess we gotta agree to disagree then, cuz I wouldnât really call that layout you linked straight (same one I think as the first link I put), or similar to the top 4 viewlix buttons. I think the A button is definitely lower than the viewlix jab button is⌠I wouldnât say itâs the same as the alternative layout I mentioned either, but somewhere in the middle.
Here are some good âtop viewâ shots of the different neo geo control panel variants out there:
http://forums.shoryuken.com/showpost.php?p=5954712&postcount=116
none of those look straight like the top 4 viewlix buttons to me⌠the middle one comes the closest, but in that one, the whole layout is curved (instead of leftmost 3 straight, A button a little lower) like the more common top one. That guy also seems to think the viewlix top for are like the top pic somehow- but I donât see itâŚ
Yeah, that was a bad example, I just linked to the first image that came up on google.
Hereâs sort of the âofficialâ SNK layout. And when I say official, I mean what the MVS layout looks like on most Neo panels in Japan.
http://hardâcandy.com/uploads/MVS-U4/Panel.jpg
http://hardâcandy.com/uploads/NeoCandy25/Front.jpg
http://hardâcandy.com/uploads/SuperNeo29TypeII/Panel.jpg
http://hardâcandy.com/uploads/NeoCandy29/Front.jpg
Those are better examples of what the Viewlix compares to.
The problem with the few pics in that thread above is that there are so many variants of the MVS panel in the U.S. (because so many were conversion kits, and home made) that none of them really follow the original neo layout.
But yeah⌠this is probably a discussion for another thread, lol.
haha, true⌠anyway, I gotcha. I didnât know those were the official layout- Iâve mostly only seen the American ones. The few times I went to japan and saw stuff like that, I thought they were just custom layouts. Youâre right though, thatâs a lot closer to the viewlix. Anyway, yeah Iâll stop hi-jacking now, sorry guys 
Iâll make an on topic post in a few days when my art is done, haha.