I just spent far much more than I should have picking up a mint one of these sticks.
I used to have one back in the day, but I couldn’t get on with sticks then.
Now I own some cabs, I quite like using sticks, and I thought I’d pick up one of these as they look great and feel pretty good too.
One question, I want to tweak it a little, can I slot in standard Sanwa microswitches into the stick? - although I will have to desolder the connections (although I will probably go for quick disconnects).
Yes Sanwa uSW.'s will fit in the Namco buttons, and joystick.
So, I finally got my Namco stick in the mail today after having paid for it a little over two weeks ago. No big deal, I’m a patient person when it comes to ordering online/ebay. I open the box and it literally takes me 10-15 seconds to notice a little plastic chip missing out of the case near the bottom middle screw on the metal panel. WTF! Upon further investigation I realized that this asshole only used two pieces of crumbled newspaper as packing material. WHY!!! What a lazy prick. So I shook out the newspaper and sure enough the little chip fell out. Seeing as how I can just super glue the chip and it’s not hugely noticeable and the stick and buttons are actually in great working condition. I think a neutral rating is in his horizon, I don’t want to be a huge dick about it and make him refund me or give him a negative feedback. I just want him to not be a lazy person and spend a few bucks on bubble wrap in addition to packing a box with newspaper. Sorry for the rant…
Anyway, I had one of these things years ago and I ended up selling it here on the marketplace. I’m glad to have this stick back in my collection.
You lucky he used that much. I gotten stuff from email packed in a dirty old sock before.
you should give him negative feedback imo. explain why in the message.
I recently won a brand new Sega Virtua Stick High Grade from a guy with 100% feedback. If that shit is anything less than unused, perfect box, brand new, no scratches then hes getting his first negative for false advertisement.
Wow, that is harsh.
Fundamental disagreements over what is and is not an acceptable level of packaging is why I no longer buy stuff from eBay sellers based in Florida. Seriously, I have never gotten an item from a Floridian that was packed satisfactorily with the coupe de grace being a X-Box 360 that was shipped lose (as in the console and all accessories are just bouncing around in the box) in an over-sized George Foreman Grill box which, when it got to me, had a hole in it large enough for anything other than the console to have fallen out of. I was amazed that the thing still worked.
Sort of. Kind of with @Digital- here. New is new.
Well since this stick always needs appreciation and I wanna bump it by posting pix of what Ive been working…here we go
Polished the control panel instead of painting it back stock dark grey. Its at 1500 wet sand n hand polish, will prolly take it a lil more to bench polishing wheel n some fine compound to get the rest of the swirls out. I will be adding vinyl decals to the control panel, top left will be the stock Namco logo and bottom right under the buttons will be my logo (silhouette of chibi robert garcia).
As for hardware its a hodge podge of parts…buttons r a mix of stock yellow rings n dark hai plungers from a Hori Fighting Stick PS (which btw I have another one coming in from a customer to replace the stock yellows there :/) w/ Seimitsu p14d micros. The stick is a real paint by numbers, its a stock chassis w/ a shaft from my Hori Real Arcade VF Saturn stick (its slightly longer above CP ~1.5mm, making stick height ~24mm), 2lb Sanwa JLF spring, new stock replacement Omron micros, Sanwa GT-Y gate drilled to fit, and a metal ring under the spring seat from a random Hori lever.
I am in the process of repinning the start/select daughter board and joystick break out cable, so I can wire it up to make it look stock. Bought new headers n connectors. I will update this post once completed, should b mid next week. Also hoping to get a custom acrylic/plexi bottom panel made, to help showcase the inside work. So if neone can help on that front, let me know (already emailed Art to see if he could do it)
I couldnt find an answer on here, but my question is will either these work on a namco:paradisearcadeshop.com/microswitches/239-seimitsu-ls-32-zippyy-joystick-upgrade-kit.html or these paradisearcadeshop.com/microswitches/239-seimitsu-ls-32-zippyy-joystick-upgrade-kit.html?
second: will a seimitsu spring fit in the stock lever housing?
I know omron will work, but Im currious about the leaf switches.
So I picked up one of these today from a trader at a comic expo, I bought it for approximately 47 U.S. dollars.
It’s in reasonable shape, minor aesthetic damage.
Do you guys think that was a good deal or not?
Pics or it never happened. But yes it sounds like you got an average price deal. Great and like NIB condition go for almost double that. And I pick up bad/terrible condition ones for less then half what you paid.
any chance someone could make a batch of top and bottom plexis? just a thought
Are you offering services?
nvm
-Relocated my HFC4 pcb from my namco and installed in my 360 VLX as a dual mod(Goodbye brooks adapter).
-Padhacked the new HFC into the 'ol namco. New PC mode by HORI is now X-Input (Even they couldn’t wait for Capcom’s SFV pc update…)
-Cleaned up wiring some more post picture but; PS3/4/PC: X-input back in service est '97 as my mobile stick.
-Still using modified hayabusa and silenced kuros. Only planned mods left are a set of modified zippys to silence the Hayabusa stick & silenced hayabusa buttons.
Hey guys,
Finally picked up a 2nd Namco stick on eBay (coming from Japan) and most likely gonna use it for modding.
Still in transit to arrive to my country though…
Anyway… I few things I wanna do
I wanna make this my universal travel stick
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[] Brook UFB or PS3/PS4 PCB
[] Sanwa JLF (I might not change this as I’m slowly starting to like the feel of the stock joystick)
[] JLF Link
[] Neutrik USB port
[] Add some weight to it somehow…
[] Paint job…?
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I quite like the stock stiff buttons so will most likely keep them.
Few questions before I go shopping for parts…
Would JLF/Seimitsu Link work on the stock joystick?
What should I use to add weight to the stick?
I got my kitchen scale and weighed both my Mad Catz SoulCalibour V stick and Namco.
Mad Catz = 2.82kg
Namco = 1.32kg
I’d ideally like to weight maybe at least 2kgs.
Some people tape up a roll of quarters and fix them in the corners and along the sides or where ever there is space , but you can use metal washers from a diy store.
The stock joystick is closest to an LS-56 so I’m fairly confident that no existing links will work. I suggest going by your local tire shop and asking for stick on wheel weights. They are heavy when you add enough and have adhesive backing so you don’t have to worry about them shaking around. Results may vary but I just asked a dude in the garage at Discount Tire and he gave me a bunch. I used them in a Tek-Case that I built for a friend.
Just got this stick for the first time.
The joystick base tends to slightly lift itself up when completely pushing a direction (like if you were pulling up the stick by its balltop but way slightier of course)
It’s still playable but a bit disturbing.
I assume that’s not normal? Any idea on how to fix it? Opening it up and tightening the screws didn’t seem to have any effect.
How are you holding on to that balltop? If you pull up on the shaft it does lift and that supposed to happen.