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
anybody?
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.
There are lots of ways to do LED mods to Joysticks.
http://shoryuken.com/f177/light-up-activation-button-mod-tutorial-149015/
One of my Favorite boards is the FGWidget LED board
Toodles FGWidget LED Controller Kit
Of if you are cheap.
Arcade Stick Modding: Button LED on Press Mod for Toodles Cuthulu
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
Toodles 360^2 Helper would also work, using the above guide as insight on how this hack would go.
http://shoryuken.com/f177/official-cthulhu-chimp-thread-try-our-new-dreamcast-flavor-162026/index96.html#post7178419
There are some other analog arcade sticks out there:
Welcome to Ultimarc, the Ultimate in Arcade Controls.
and there’s also 49-way sticks which are a sort of in-between
49-Way Joystick