Hahaha! so anyone have any they wanna sell \ trade?
nsc
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These buttons seem like they’d be perfect for a “community” stick, one to lend to anyone of any age if they are visiting and are stickless.
Also if your friends tend to enjoy more liquid refreshments than they should then these buttons seem like a godsend… too bad these seem impossible to find.
haha true dat. i want to make a wico total p360 stick for my off stick + kids
question about these. they all take a +5v so would you just daisy chain the +5v to each button from the USB or +5v on the pcb?
they are super rare and super old I am hoping to get some from some people here I have acquired two but I don’t think there are anyactual retail outlets where you can get the still
GeorgeC
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You can’t unless someone owns unsold stock of the buttons.
They are LONG out of production.
Wico shut down ages ago; well over 10 years now.
The only “new” Wico product produced are reproductions from the production molds (IF they exist) or from measurements of Wico product.
I know Paradise Arcade Shop sells a reproduction of the old Wico red balltop. It’s bigger than the Japanese balltops – 38mm versus 35mm – and requires a screw adapter to fit onto new-production joysticks like the JLF and LS-series.
I’m not as anal about reproducing the “American” arcade experience. I was never a fan of the buttons and joysticks used back in the day. What we have available today is much better – more comfortable and more responsive than anything Happ, iL, or Wico ever produced.
I did at one time own two Wico joysticks that were produced for Atari systems way back in the day. I can’t say that I really miss those, either. They had two buttons, one on the base, one on the top of the handle, only one button at a time functional via a base switch… Frankly, they’d be useless for at least 85% of the games produced since the mid-1980s. They wouldn’t have been responsive enough for Street Fighter IV even if they DID have six working buttons let alone the faster-paced CPS-2 games. They were little better than the Atari 2600 joysticks and I believe used a rubber grommet (sp?) system like the Korean joysticks instead of a spring system to re-center themselves.
Zx-tole
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I remember cutwest having some, but that was a long time ago. I’m gonna guess he sold em all.
i got the couple from him. thank you. just need a few more to complete the build.
Half-Ro
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I have 3 red white and blue, pay for shipping and they are yours op.
awesome dood!!! thanks a ton!!! plz pm me your paypal and i will send you dem moneyz
still looking for 1 blue button and 1 white (of the older version, white nut with the big faced button that looks like these) thanks!
These seem really cool! Why hasn’t anyone tried reproducing these yet??
I wonder what it takes to reproduce these buttons?
LED. Works like A Flash 1
Well I know the theory of operation
I mean the actual manufacturing
Like made a snap in replacement for existing arcade buttons, replacing the mechanical micro switch for a optical board
Someone should take a button, 3D scan it, then tweak the schematics to fit a switch. I say “someone” because I don’t have the capabilities.
I am also looking for these buttons, please help, I will buy or trade…
There are rare perfect 360 optical encoders that fit onto standard il lorenzo buttons, bit are rare if not more rare than the spillproof buttons. Finding it will be the hardest thing. Get on facebook and join a bunch of fightstick pages and branch your searches out. U can do what I did and contact Ebay sellers who deal with arcade parts. I search their inventory and see if they sell equipment related to games which a owner at one point could of purchased a upgraded perfect 360. I also see if they state not to solicit about any products that are not listed. U have to respect their time. Send a short to the point message simply stating I’m looking for so so and willing to pay x amount for it. Short to the point but dont come off despite. Dig around hard enough and u can find these.
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