NotANoob81, Youre saving me alot of work hahaha. Now I dont gotta wait for my friends FS3 to take pics. Yeehaw. Also, I like your stick mounting solution.
I never thought of retrofitting a Hori shaft to a Sanwa… hmmmm. I straight up ate away at the metal and bottom of the shaft with a dremel sander. Works great, no scraping.
Newwaverap, unless you REALLY want the sticker to still be there, take note of the pictures, and try cutting holes out with an exacto knife or something. That’ll save your plate cause over time, the plate will oxidize. I know that from my hella old T5 anniversary stick.
Also, NotaNoob81 I saw what you posted on the ILMCS Gallery… Makes me sad that you thought I was dishonest :sad: … JUST KIDDING. My friends thought I was bullshitting when I told them about my full sanwa mod dream came true. They laughed. then post success, It put their clunky ass HRAP 3’s to shame.
Modded FS3’s > HRAP3 even when its modded.
…this threads getting more and more popular. :wgrin:
Well i where i work i have acces to a 10ft Table Router which can cut aluminum, plexi, wood and all sorts of materials. I wanted to build a template & just put it through the router to make the parts for the sticks, put them together & just fit them with sanwa parts wired to either dreamcast, psx, ps2, ps3, usb, xbox or any other type of controller. Since i’m a graphic designer i have access to a flat bed large format printer & very good quality printable material i can also do the artwork for the sticks. Basically i can build a very good quality stick if i can learn the wiring part of it. This is why i’m trying to mod my stick so i can get my feet wet with wirind and stuff like that. I will be looking for tutorials on wiring ps2, Gamecube & Usb controllers from start to finish so i can get the hang of things.
GEEZ! I am a stick builder myself, and even I dont have those kinda of resources. You can pretty much pull quality material out of your ass in way less time than it takes for me to make one decent but rushed stick. Man… thats awesome.
Anyway, on topic. Has anyone else finished their mods? Cause Im about to fix my friends FS3 and take pictures plus write a full tutorial if someone doesnt beat me to it. Ya Digg? haha. STILL diggin the way it feels.
I’m looking forward to your full tutorial, please be specific as to what parts you use, where you bought parts from and other details like that. I would like to build my own stick soon after modding my FS3.
I’m working on something as well, hopefully i get the hang of this & can make something great. I appreciate all the help i’ve gotten on this forum, i hope to see more on the HFS3 mod in the coming days.
Man there’s NO WAY to save this top layer, i tried being as careful as possible but this thing is trashed. Luckily all the glue stayed on the sticker & not the plate.
Just as an FYI, unscrew the joystick’s ball before anything else. I have soldered the buttons to my DC pad and there is lag on the L&R triggers but other than that everything was pretty straight forward. Looking forward to the rest of the tutorial.
I played Street Fighter Anniversary Collection for PS2 with my HFS3 and it worked perfect.
Does anybody have a Template for the Hori Fighting Strick 3? I want to replace the art but i don’t want to take all the measurements & be inaccurate. If someone can please help me out i’d appreciate it.
If you want to try and save the sticker I would suggest two things. First take the buttons off before trying to remove the sticker. That way when you peal back the sticker it isn’t pulled out of shape coming out from under them. Second try using a product that will soften the stickum. There is a product here in the states called GooGone.
i can do button switching easily, but im a bit confused on the part about changing out the stick to a sanwa, jlf. any other easier methods, or more descriptive ‘guides’ i should follow when trying this?
edit: also wondering if i would be able to use OBSN’s as opposed to OBSF’s.
To answer some questions:
As far as fitting JLF’s you dont have to HEAVILY modify it. You just have to cut off the tabs to make it fit into the square. And grind down the shaft to make the stick move around. After I experienced scraping, I grinded the bottom of the shaft to a dome shape. That made it not scrape. Also helps to grind at the bottom plate too. The JLF fitting was the hardest part of the mod.
The buttons have little grooves on the side. I dont mean removing the snap in tabs but just shave the grooves off the sides. youll see it since itll keep the button from getting inserted. I think youre talking about the top plate which does have tabs you need to grind off
