Jumpsuit… im loving the cab and the stick… yea i also ordered a sanwa joystick thinking that it’ll fit… but then i was like screw it and used the one already on the stick…
Imitrex - i think we say FS3 over HRAP3 cuz on the box its labeled as fighting stick 3 lol
and daym…this thing is going for 20 bux now?! WTH? pricing went down so much… i got mine for 50 =[… i think its cuz i got it when it barely came out
where can you get it for 20? ive never seen it below 39 before tax + shipping
Yeah, I love my cab.
I had sanwa sticks in it for a while but once I switched to seimitsu 56-01’s everyone liked those better.
And yes, where the hell are people finding the FS3 for $20??? I just bought another one for $59 retail :sad:
Jumpsuit how easy or hard was it to change the buttons to sanwa?
easy… you just gotta shave off a couple of tabs and it’ll fit easily…
Took me a few days but finally got an ls-32 into my hori ex2. Shaft height is perfect. Had to mod the plastic case and cut a hole in the bottom plate.
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Yes, getting the buttons to fit is the easy part. Dremmel and sandpaper.
Detaching the shit buttons from the circuit board is the bitch part.
I’ve got it down to an art now that I have done about 4 of them. I use 2 different irons to do my soldering and de-soldering.
It’s definitely worth the trouble to upgrade the buttons.
Well, I finally did another stick.
This time with Seimitsu dual colored buttons.
Side by side, I can definitely feel the difference between Sanwa buttons and Seimitsu.
I left the stick with the stock switches and changed out the gate, added a white bat top, shaft cover, dirt skirt and tweaked the stick a bit.
Feels very good. Now I am ready for 2 player home action on ST HD!
I hope those black/white Seimitsu buttons are screw-ins >_<. Snap-ins are flat which has a nasty feeling.
Jumpsuit Jesse, the knock off hori stick might actually fit a Sanwa octagonal gate better than an actual Sanwa JLF due to the hori joysticks longer throw and stiffer spring. Octagonal gates feel like shit on JLFs but they may actually make the hori stick somewhat decent. I like square gates though and so I am thinking of putting an LS-33 w/ LS-56 spring in an EX2. May someone please post up pics of the LS-33 in a Fighting Stick 3, EX2, or Wii?
It’s not the flat feeling that gives Seimitsu snap-ins the nasty feeling. The plunger, and the way it sits in the bezel, is different (other than the flat surface). In short, Seimitsu snap-ins are completely different buttons from the screw-ins similar to Happ Ultimate buttons versus Happ Competition (convex) buttons. Seimitsu snap-ins and Happ Ultimates = finger rape. Semitsu screwins, Sanwa buttons, and Happ convex = enlightenment.
Actually, it’s interesting that he thought this.
I have a personal experience with this as well; I bought a HRAP2 and a T5 stick at the same time, and used them equally until they were both broken in. To start with, they both felt about as good as each other to me. I really didn’t have a preference and I didn’t see what all the fuss was about. I could tell the difference between them by feel but neither seemed clearly superior.
Eventually, of course, they wore in. The Hori knock-off joystick grew worse and worse. However, the Sanwa JLF began to feel even better. In about six months of casual play (and a few incidents of buddies learning to button-mash), the Sanwa was unquestionably better. I wouldn’t consider myself a fine connoisseur but I’ve used a lot of different joysticks, and it’s interesting to note that my girlfriend–who had never used an arcade stick before–found the same thing.
I don’t think there’s much of a difference at first but over time there’s no doubt as to which stick is the winner.
The story cracked me up either way. :bgrin:
Deadfrog,
I never stopped to think about wear and tear. I haven’t played on a stock hori knockoff long enough to see how they hold up.
So maybe upgrading to the JLF will have long term benefits? I would think so.
EvilSamurai - I think I was the first one to actually put a JLF octagon gate on the stock hori stick. It still has a long through…even for a shorter stick.
I ended up sticking with square gates on both since that is what most people are using nowadays.
But I still say LS-5601’s with Octagon gates+bat tops own all hehe
What I mean is that on the octagonal gates make the stick have a long throw no matter what but if you put them on a JLF the microswitch will activate at about half the throw which makes the stick feel funny to me, which combined with the light spring, gives me problems doing moves such as dashes that require double taps in a direction.
That is precisely why I love the LS-5601’s. Very little/practically no deadzone and then BAM, you’re at the gate!
i love what you’re doing Jumpsuit… how much did you pay for that cab? and nice switch with the buttons on them =], i was thinking of getting clear seimitsu’s myself… but i wasnt sure how they felt… i personally dont like seimitsu’s unless im using them to play one of the KOF series or something… this summer i wanna work on a “fun” stick with the clear works and all… and a competition stick(most likely gonna be a MAS) haha
how do the clear buttons feel? is it like the Sanwa buttons? or does it still push in like seimitsu’s?
again… nice work keep up with it
It was an expensive experiement, but I think I am gonna go back to Sanwa buttons. The bling of the skeleton buttons are really nice but I played really hard on the skeleton stuff last night for a few hours and both my brother and I agreed that they just don’t feel as good as sanwas. We found ourselves missing moves and not being able to “flow” in our game. Call us picky prissy gamers but we definitely noticed it.
Gonna go back to Sanwas…maybe whites and violets? I dunno.
Thanks for the compliments. I am gonna open up the cab this week and thoroughly clean it and wax the plastics.
I’m not gone to drop it my original project. I ordered Fighting Stick 3 for only PS3 because connector USB.
exacty look like wii hori stick. Noober sell for me but he change his mind and refund money back to me.
I’ll custom image on Fighting Stick 3.
Samurai boy scream or yell on text contrain “THERE’S EIGHT DOWN!” and black bloody splash!
I’ll modding Seimitsu LS-56 from Sega Naomi Universal Cab Candy and Sanwa OBSF-30 buttons for 8 color: black/Hai
Who has a FS3 stick. I ask you , I want to know measure panel contorl on FS3, I’ll put custom image on FS3.
Length is 6 inches/15 centimeters, width is 10 1/2 inches, approx. 27 centimeters.
Thanks, Mizkreant
I put skin sticker on PS3 60gb. Alien baby in lifeform. Neko Press Fire Alien