I feel your pain. I just don’t want to pay $90 (average ebay) to mod a stick I never plan to use.
is that to the top of the shaft or the top of the ball?
As mounted now:
top of shaft(w/o threads) 27mm
top of shaft(w/ threads) 38mm
top of ball 63mm
Bottom of Ball Top.
jlf mod doesnt seem possible without frankensteining the stick =\ just wont fit nicely for me.
updated the first post with some links.
OK.
I’ll pay 10USD to someone who provides me art template for this stick.
Payment via paypal. Contact me via pm.
WTF?
Bottom of ball, top of ball…??? what the bottom of ball top?
Ball Top = Ball.
Bottom of Ball Top = Bottom of Ball.
I’m sorry, but i have to still ask about the empty art template for this stick.
Does anyone know how to make it?
Can anyone give me hints how to make one?
Is some other, allready available, stick template very close to this one so it could be modified to suit this stick with little effort?
Any help would be appreciated.
10 dollar offer that i threw few posts earlier is also still valid.
Anyone?
Just print your art on a paper a bit larger in size, laminate it and cut it out after you’ve placed it. I don’t think anyone is going to bother with a template for this stick.
ok, making a template for this stick should be easy enough to do IF you are willing to remove the artwork already on the stick. (something i personally am not willing to do) but here are the steps as best as i can figure which should, in theory, be good for any template making project
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remove original artwork from the stick, this will obviously require taking the stick apart
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scan the artwork into the computer. you may want to put a sheet of paper behind the artwork that is a color that will stand out
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open the scanned image in photoshop, fireworks, or any other art program that can do layers
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select all the open spaces in the button holes, stick hole, and border (if you have a border) note: this is where having the of standout coler paper behind the artwork helps
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create a new layer and fill in the selected area (color and transparency are up to you)
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save your template (psd being the prefered filetype)
that should cover it, please note that i never actually made a stick template before so you should only TRY THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK. hope it helps tho
i believe this man deserves 10 dollars. fork it over!
Well, thats exactly what i was thinking. But i become very doubting about how that scanned image will print out. I think that without re-sizing it will print out in too big size.
I don’t use scanners that much, but each time i have done so, the scanned image ends up to be very huge in computer screen.
Can this be solved just by changing the viewing size, without actually re-sizing the image?
Try this
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6Z5GDHIP
http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/4503/previewmov.jpg
Maybe its not perfect but should work fine
Edit:
Make sure you extend the art to the second line.
I’ll print it out and see if it fits.
So, I bought my Tekken 6 PS3 limited edition bundle from Futureshop (aka Best Buy), on launch day, here in Ottawa, Canada.
Well, 6 days in, the 2 (triangle) button started wearing out. “No problem,” I thought, “I’ll just swap out the buttons”… Well, here’s what I see when I open it up:
Yup, that’s one big integrated board. Buttons and wireless chip on the same PCB.
I desoldered the buttons, so I could remove it.
So, I don’t know if this is specific to the PS3 bundle, or just the sticks shipped to Canada, but it’s nothing like the guts of the X360 stick already posted. For now, I’m going to try swapping out one of the “spare” buttons (L2) for the broken one (Triangle).
That’s the bad button. The microswitch is just really rough. Can this be replaced with anything standard? It looks like I’m stuck with this PCB, so the pins would have to fit. I’d like to go with Sanwa buttons, but would they fit?
Thanks for posting what are the first good pics of the PS3 PCB. We knew that it wasn’t like the 360 one from previous pics. But there was no good pic of the traces. It looks like with some precise use of the dremel, you can cut the board around where the buttons are and solder wires from certain points on the board to use for new buttons.
In fact, now that I’m really looking at it, you could probably cut the tabs that are under the buttons off of the PCB. Uncover the traces some from where you cut and solder a short wire from the uncovered traces to the new buttons. I don’t have the capability to sketch it out on your picture but hopefully I’ve given you a decent idea.
Printed it out and it seemes to be ok. Stick-hole is situated little bit (few millimeters, so that stick saft is not centered, but touching the right side of the hole) too far in the left. It might be a difference between PS3 and Xo360 versions?
Also need to make the hole for Xbox guide-button a bit bigger and add small hole to upper left corner for wireless connection-button that is present in Xbox-version, but doing those is easy. Good job!
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Yeah, looks like I missed a few pages of this thread.
Good idea about the tabs.
If anyone needs high resolution versions of those pics, let me know.