Is there any way to get the analogs to work on an arcade stick? My reasons are that I have noticed a lot of the xbox arcade games require the analogs and not the dpad. If I make this cabinet I would want it to work with a couple other arcade games as well.
Also, how hard is it to make the pushbuttons LED lit? I would be using a Xbox360 padhack, if someone could point me in the right direction it would be great
Digital Joysticks are on/off. Analog joysticks are super expensive. The LS-64 is the cheapest option it seems. Seimitsu LS-64 - Gremlin Solutions.
You can also get that from akihabarashop.jp.
The one only other think I could think mrephunk thinking about is to hack a regular digital joystick to work as the controlls from the analog thumb pad from a PCB. Simple Analog to Digital joystick conversion
Here is a guide I found while googling for the solution, it is similar to a trigger inversion hack, but more complicated