Namco Stick Appreciation!

pumpking · September 24, 2009, 11:06pm

hi Erwin

i have a namco arcade stick from china and it seems you played both the one form japan and china

so are there any diferences between them?

weirdly on my stick the screwholes are the same design as your japanese model

i guess hori have made alot of small adjustments like the ones seen on first page

:razz::clapdos:

out of topic but how much would the postage cost me if i were to buy a costum stick i live in Denmark and buying from an Amerikan

Kyle · September 25, 2009, 3:38am

My new Namco came in the mail today. That thing is beautiful. Too bad it’s getting stashed away as an anniversary present.

Gigazord · September 25, 2009, 3:41am

Man I need to get me a second one so I can just play with the current one I have

cue16 · September 25, 2009, 3:41am

It’s our anniversary already? Awesome. My zip is 94591.

Seriously I want one of these so bad.

jeenyus1 · September 25, 2009, 3:44am

i just installed a Namco stock joystick into my TE stick with a few adjustments. I changed the spring for a JLF spring and switched the actuator/shaft with a Sanwa’s.

The microswitches are so nice on this

It feels like JLF but better and quicker activation of directions.

Zapf · September 25, 2009, 3:55am

do you have a picture

meus · September 25, 2009, 3:55am

i will have 2 more namco’s in by 2morrow. awesome.

Gigazord · September 25, 2009, 3:58am

Seriously? Where are you getting these?

jeenyus1 · September 25, 2009, 4:01am

Thanks for the quick shipping and everything Zapf! I appreciate it.

What kind of pic you looking for?

meus · September 25, 2009, 4:09am

ebay and phillipines

yes i want to see pics too.

Gigazord · September 25, 2009, 4:13am

And i’m assuming you still have the Namco case and pcb to give to me?

jeenyus1 · September 25, 2009, 4:31am

lol, sorry I just bought the stock joystick off of someone.

To put a Namco stock joystick into a TE stick is impossible without some work.

My TE stick had a JLF so I took the JLF out, took it all apart and just left the black bottom ‘housing’ as well as the mounting plate on and replaced the Sanwa microswitches with the Namco’s microswtiches. I originally used the Namco shaft as well as the Namco actuator but this didn’t work out for 2 reasons…

The Namco shaft is much shorter than the JLF’s and installed in a TE stick the shaft was too short for my liking so I replaced it with a JLF’s. The Namco actuator was also too small for the JLF shaft so I replaced the actuator with a Sanwa actuator as well.

Basically what I did was just replace the Sanwa’s microswitches to Namco’s.

Some pics: http://img28.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=img0478s.jpg

Kyle · September 25, 2009, 7:14am

I know this is lame, but anyone tried a Yellow meshball? That is about the extent that I would be willing to mod mine.

zeetes · September 25, 2009, 8:45am

haha yes. want me to post a pic with mine?

ibeatu · September 25, 2009, 8:46am

yes pic

zeetes · September 25, 2009, 8:55am

http://zeet.es/wheaties/gaming/namco_mesh.jpg

since we moved a few months ago i’ve been searching everywhere for my camera, but even with my blackberry this is a pretty good representation of the coloring difference between the mesh and buttons

bat top!

http://zeet.es/wheaties/gaming/namco_bat.jpg

not a clear pic, but in order:
namco, mesh, seimitsu, sanwa, bat top

http://zeet.es/wheaties/gaming/namco_tops.jpg

meus · September 25, 2009, 9:11am

sweet

Kyle · September 25, 2009, 3:48pm

Thanks! Did you opt to leave it on? How closely does the color match? It looks pretty close from your picture.

cue16 · September 25, 2009, 8:42pm

Kyle…Gigazord you guys rock.

meus · September 25, 2009, 9:04pm

Here are the 2 extra namco’s that come on today from ebay.

I have 2 more coming from asia