Madcatz Street Fighter V Fightstick Alpha

Hey man. New here, but i got the alpha amd wanted to try an octagon gate. It looked like the sanwa gate so i ordered it to see. Dont know of its just variations in parts, but everything is near exactly the same with the gate, except the lock tabs are just slightly off enough it wont for. BUT, the small octagonal ring insert DOES fit. I dod have to very lightly sand the stock restrictor plate to fit bit it does fit very nice. So for a couple bucks i have an 8 way gate in my alpha

can I just cut the wires connected to the button and use a butt connector to connect 10 Connection 22 AWG .110" Ground Daisy Chain Wire and 16pc 22 AWG Wire with .110 Quick Disconnect to the original wires? (sorry for my bad english)

Oh never mind. I’ve found a video in youtube and he did what exactly I’am thinking.

Thank you guys!
and Thank you random person who post a video on youtube!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW5qejjIeSg

So are the buttons/stick junk that has to be replaced with real parts?

Did you just drop in a Link without using a JLF? Interesting…

Would anyone know if we can mod a Neutrik usb to this as well?

Just noticed these are on Amazon for $54 and are Prime eligible.

The Link can work not just with the Sanwa JLF but any JLF clone and the Hori Hayabusa.

To the Street Fighter Alpha? Is there room to mount om the rear or the sides something than needs a 24mm hole?

Has anyone been able to get this stick to work on PC SFV?

I downloaded the MadCatz driver from here: http://madcatz.com/downloads/ , called Fight_Stick_Alpha_PS4_7_0_54_5_x64_Full.zip

And it installed without any issues, and afterwards the stick was picked up in Joy.Cpl as ā€œXBox360 Wired Controllerā€, but when I launched SFV I still couldn’t navigate the menus with it. I tried the LS, RS, and DP settings, but none worked.

@Feargus001100 :
Did you click the ā€œXinputā€ option in the windows taskbar?
It’s right in the readme txt file.

@Falkentyne , derp on me for missing that step :loser: , works like a charm now, thanks!!!

Enjoy!

Enjoy complete, now wondering if any of the usual TT mad scientists have taken one of these bad boys apart and found the TP Key on the PCB.

I have no electrical skills but I can rip this thing open and my PS4 TE S+ to compare PCBs if that helps =)

how easy is it t swap this pcb in to another 6 button stick??

is there qd’s for start select and home?

i dont want anything that needs a firmware upgrade and i am not capable pad hacking

I was afraid to bump this but anzhar did it for me B)

Anyway @anzhar the PCB has a couple ribbon cables coming out of it, so if you wanted to avoid soldering to the PCB, you could cut off the ribbon cables where they lead to, strip & tin the ends of those wires, and boom, Ken’s youtr uncle.

…So a Hayabusa joystick does fit in this it seems. No mods or drilling right? Looks like people have dropped in JLF without problem which is definitely promising. It looks pretty shallow though so are there any 30mm buttons I should avoid or will whatever I want fit in this thing.

thanks bros.

Easier than a regular pad hack.

There are no quick disconnects in an Alpha stick. All the buttons are soldered or connected via JST’s.

You sure about that? I wouldn’t risk it tbh.

Sanwa RG buttons won’t fit, Sanwa OBSF and snap-in Seimitsu buttons should be fine.

Thanks man. I read something about a JLF fitting in these so I thought a Hayabusa might fit. No go for a LS56 then i assume? Thanks again for your help!

ok cool, these go for under £25 sometimes so im thinking of snagging one

i have not got a ps4, but i end up at places where it is the platform being used…

A JLF could fit but it’s a difficult and ugly fit. You have to mod the JLF it self to make it work.
An LS-56 could work, you will have to ditch the Mount plate, dremel the underside of your Hori EX2 smooth and drill holes from the top to mount the LS-56

this threa is for the Mad Catz fightstick Alpha, a very poor copy and paste job sir !!!

JLF and Seimitsu PS-15s fit without any issue. OBSFs also fit, but you’ll have to bend the terminals. LS-56 will fit with the KOWAL converter plate if you remove a single mounting peg from the case, but you may be endangering the stick’s structural integrity.

Thanks for that. Damn, I thought the Hayabusa would fit if the JLF would but is there really not enough room in there for the Hayabusa’s blocky structure? Hell i would even be willing to cut up the Hayabusa plastic to make it fit in one of these controllers…

If @Darksakul advice was for this stick and not the EX2, i would be willing to do the necessary modding to fit my LS56 in it…

If LS56 and Hayabusa REALLY won’t work I’ll just get a damn JLF…