Check Out My New Arcade Stick! - Part III (No Image Quoting)

FoxBlaze · June 8, 2019, 1:40am

Thanks for the compliments! Shoutouts to your friend as well! I’ll say that I do love how this one came out myself and the LED buttons he went with really helped into making it look even better.

FreedomGundam · June 10, 2019, 1:18am

Finally got around to doing the last bit of modding on my Exar Exaprize.

Changed the Seimitsu PS-15 button colors to yellow-rim black-plunger.
Changed the shaft- and dust-cover to have the same color scheme as the buttons.
Added a DPDT switch on the side for console selection on dual mods (although there’s still just one PCB in there at the moment).
Added 4 mounting holes at the top…

So that I can do this:

Here’s the back:

The mounting claws were a Switch-specific mount, but originally made to mount behind a headrest. The hinged arm was originally something with a suction cup to mount a cellphone to a car windshield. Cobbled the two together, and added a bunch of custom hand-made ABS connection parts. Didn’t have any 4-40 thumbscrews handy, so I basically made my own using countersunk 4-40 screws epoxied into some custom-cut ABS “pucks”.
The original idea was for this to be drill-less and have the mount held on by magnets, but those weren’t strong enough to securely hold everything up without collapsing at the slightest bump.

Inside.
I mainly just added the dual-mod switch, but it’s two 4-pin headers that go into that DPDT switch. No second PCB at the moment, but I’ve added an ABS panel on the lower-right for whenever that happens.

And if I had any games that supported it, I can rotate it into tate mode too!
Just waiting for a physical version of Ikaruga to be released!

drawnfix · June 10, 2019, 2:51pm

Great work! What did you use to make the case cutout for the PCB select switch? Looking to do something similar w/ my EX2

P.S. Is that an LS-40? Why did you remove the secondary gate?

FreedomGundam · June 10, 2019, 3:40pm

For the cutout, I just measured, drilled, and filed things down to size.

Yes, that’s an LS-40 in there. I removed the secondary gate mainly because the “open” portion of the secondary gate doesn’t actually do anything for the main white square gate. Plus it’s a cleaner look. I do this normally with all my LS-40s (3 other of my sticks have LS-40s).

BartStation · June 12, 2019, 9:46pm

Can you drop a regular JLF or LS-32 in there? I have one, I want to mod.

FreedomGundam · June 13, 2019, 4:54am

If you have the Sanwa edition, it comes with a JLF (albeit mounted at the wrong height).
Non-Sanwa editions need heavy work to get it mounted.
An LS-32 would take extensive case-cutting to get it to fit at the right height (see my LS-40 mod).

BartStation · June 13, 2019, 7:37pm

I believe they would mount it without the plate? Just like the you would for a T5 stick mod.

FreedomGundam · June 13, 2019, 9:04pm

Possibly; I don’t normally mount any sticks without the mounting plate, so it’s something I always consider in my planning.
I’m not sure that it would give you very much “grip” considering you’d be mounting it on just a thin layer of plastic, though.

FoxBlaze · June 15, 2019, 2:51am

Some image shots of a HRAP VX-SA mod done by twitter user @capcomatmebro featuring a MLP themed graphic based around Rainbow Dash that I helped into making for him as a gift for his daughter.

BartStation · June 18, 2019, 2:56am

So I wanted to post these for a while. I just got the HRAP2 in the mail today. PS4 VLX and HRAP 2 to go with my mirror HRAP. Roughly 300 for both. I think I am done collecting. Lmao.
I picked up the VLX from an OG SRK member and the HRAP from a seller in Japan.