Why would you need RCA connectors? Arcade buttons already comes with a User accessible quick disconnects
And the Crimp on Quick disconnects are even found in most hardware stores and autoparts stores. I buy a 10 for a dollar online.
Mainly because if a cat chews an external RCA wire, RCA cables are no fuss, no muss, and easy to find and replace. Plus theyāre thick enough where my cats would probably not want to chew them in the first place. Other things require more knowledge like building your own wires and detaching and reattaching and soldering and a whole bunch of stuff I donāt want to deal with. The labor is easier with RCAs, just get RCA cable, plug in one end, plug in the other, and youāre done. Remember this is for frequent unplugging and replugging. Quick connects Iāve had died out and broke before. I can find 3 RCA cable sets for 50 cents at Goodwill. Iāve never had an RCA connector break or fail. Every time I had an RCA cable fail was because of the routed them wrong, not because the cable failed.
Also I need them organized in such a way so the hole is evident of what function. Iām thinking of mounting RCA females in an arrangement that looks like a joypad and my stick so it doesnāt become a Cable Spaghetti Mess where labels would fall off and make the plugs indistinguishable and therefore risk hooking the ground in the wrong place.
My website now has all the links up. visit 56ok.org/Ambidextrous/index.htm to read about my job. I tested all the links and they work. By the way, my previous link to the above website didnāt link right. I tested this link. This one does. Same terms as above.
But those wires are Internal by default. None of that wiring external and it does not need to be external.
Your over complicating and making a project more expensive than it needs to be.
Buy having external RCA cables for button rewiring, you are looking at additional points of failure
I also read your site, where you even get your info from? That is all wrong.
Hello Darksakul: (I almost called you Dark Saul, being a play off Darth Maul )
About the ambidextrous wish list: It is just that, a WISH list, meaning if Fairly Oddparents exist, thatās what Iād wish for. I understand there are more practical concerns. I agree that having RCA females make more points of possible failure. I had a reason why I prefer external parts. I donāt want to tamper with a good setup. And I forsee the need of having a ābase setupā and a āflexable setupā for some things I see in the future and past. 2 games I can think of where I need hardware-based reprogrammability are Tutankham (with a left fire and right fire) and Pac-Land (with a left run and right run) Hopefully you can appreciate the problem with a one-size-fits-all-games solution. And if something goes wrong with this solution, only games that need this solution would be hampered, and not every game. Iām trying to isolate the problem, so I can still game, just not those 2 games. And Iāve had problems working with little wires in a spaghetti, kabelsalat mess with wire labels that fall off too easily. I thought externalizing it makes it more āuser-friendlyā, and the RCAs make it more āuser-serviceableā
What specifically was wrong? Was it on my joystick page specifically, or on the 56ok reviews? Is it a difference of opinion, not understanding the perspective of the website, or an actual factual statement I made wrong? Most of the website are my personal experiences, both from a low bandwidth gaming perspective, and a āpre-1985 right-handedā one. These are my personal experiences. I only have authority to speak for one person, me. Your mileage may vary.
By the way, I understand $300 is a lot to have in reserve for a deposit on a joystick. You sound like youāre an expert. I found your user id at the beginning under this joystick makers thread . I understand it just doesnāt just cover the parts, and labor, but the knowledge as well. There are some things I want that I know how to do it, Iām just not handy with a soldering gun and just need a proverbial driver on the road to my joystick, some things I want to get, but need a guide because I donāt know the way, (like some previous pitfalls Iāve just climbed out of and donāt want to fall into again.) and some things which is on a proverbial wish list, way too expensive to be practical. I need an expert to help me sort through this. If an up-to-$300 deposit, for a joystick that is already over 50% made and just needs some final work, sounds like a good amount, I could use advice like yours.
If you want to deal with me, just let me know and maybe we can work something out. If you want a low ping conversation, private message me your phone number, and I promise I wonāt give it out to anyone, or let me private message you my phone number, whichever you prefer. Iāve got unlimited US and Canada long distance.
I can predict one thing you might say I got factually wrong. The claim that I said the Nintendo d-pad was originally supposed to be right handed:
If the original intent wasnāt a right handed d-pad when why does this picture exist? https://google.com/patents/US4687200 Click on image 1 and youāll see a right-handed d-pad confirming my theory, that the only reason why they went left handed was because of Donkey Kong and future arcade hits, and the only reason Donkey Kong was that way was because the arcade cabinets from Donkey Kong were re-converted Radarscope machines, and back then, people thought, if you can only choose one, pick the most important control to be right handed. If firing was more important than dodging in Radarscope, then the fire should be more important, hence on the right, hence left stick. It miht have been a cost saving move to put Donkey Kongās stick on the left, more than it was an ergonomic one.
Darksakul, I understand I may have to find someone I mesh with. Since you see no reason to have an external button swapper, I canāt convince you of it, as much as I tried lightly on the forum. Luckily I found one person, who I just have to wait until he has some free time, another where who initially liked the idea, but I couldnāt get a hold of, and one you has a phone number for custom work, but never answers their phone. Iāll just see which one is most eager.
As for the one who left me, he knowingly combined items, and I said I wanted a modular design so that if one part fails, ONLY stuff related to that part wonāt work, but I can enjoy the rest of the stuff while itās being repaired. The whole point of the external button swapper was so that if it failed, only a few limited gamesthat required a radical change in button arrangement and didnāt have software adjustments, wouldnāt work, butt e main multi-console PCB WOULD work without it. The joystick would in base mode work for all Capcom games and any games with button remapping. The point of hard-wiring a removable external button changer was to change the buttons in a game where there was no option, but to let most games with button remapping options not be affected. And just as importantly is to not to mess up a good joystick unnecessarily. Iāve had a joyustick where I had to fiddle with internal parts. it was not a pretty thing. I didnāt wanted so integrated in the system where if that failed, Iād have to send in my whole PS360+ because they are siamese twins fused to the same unit. He didnāt believe I was willing to pay, but I had $300 deposit for him. That was the breaking point. I accused him of over-engineering because (from what I perceive) stuff that could have just as easily been separated were integrated with no additional benefit except ācontrolling 2 consoles at once.ā Why in the world would anyone, except for someone testing how literal of a translation an older game is remade for a newer system, want to control 2 systems at once? I can think of no practical uses, even if I stretch, except the one I mentionedā¦
Iām not going to call him out by name. He knows my user name of tripletopper. If he reads this, Iām just showing him where I thought he tried to make a power play. I never asked for 2 consoles to be controlled at once. The closest Iāve come to that was theorizing about a āmove recorder/playback unitā to test whether a particular video game is legally a skill game within Ohio if I did video game tournaments, but that was a long way off. That was a feature he added that he thought Iād be willing to pay for, but actually wasnāt. In fairness I did mention it, but said that would be for a business expense, not for my joystick. By the way, I found him on Etsy.com So if you ok for a joystick builder on etsy.com, the only one I know who responds to it did this thing, and made the ultimatum that I a) accept his changes and not ask questions, b) do it my way and have no warrantee, or c) not do business with him. it was tough between a and c, but in retrospect, now that I think of it, if he wasnāt willing to see that flaw, then I donāt know if I can work with him.
Actually for me the Holidays are a busy time for me both in personal life and work, so I donāt have much me time.
And no one here (at least I know off) do stick modding as their full time job.
Second, what you are asking with RCA cables calls for is alot of drilling and cutting. Which is never a straight forwards process.
What you are asking for and to look decent takes alot of time, effort and shopping for the exact right panel mount parts. I can do it quick, fast and cheap but its going to look terrible.
I donāt want to deal with that at this time.
Iām looking to commission artwork for a Mayflash F500, can anyone help?
I just need face plate art, I found a thread with a guy named āruckageā who offers the service. PMād him but I donāt think heās a regular here.
I live in California and can pay via Paypal.
Hello need a Modder in the Lynnwood or Seattle, WA area just picked up a new madcatz t2+ and itās broken, physically everything is new and looks good however when plugged into ps3, PS4 or pc itās always scrolling up, even when not touching the stick, scrolls up in menus, scrolls up in character select, and in game just makes the character jump, help is very much appreciated
Thank you to ausomecrawl, he helped troubleshoot and recommend fix for my TE2+, it was bad diode, and was very patient with my questions and helped me out a lot.
Hello! Iām looking for a modder in the Los Angeles area. I think I have all the parts, so would just need a quick swap-job. I should note that Iām happy to pay for the service. Details below.
What I Have:
I have a first-edition 2009 MadCatz TE FightStick, dual-modded (back in 2011) with a PS360 mod so it seamlessly works on PC, PS3, X360.
What I Want:
I just purchased a Brook Universal Fighting Board, and would like to swap it in and āupgradeā my stick to work on all the consoles instead of just last-gen ones. Iām looking for someone to cleanly install this Universal Fighting Board, and maybe suggest/perform additional steps for ease-of-use/quality-of-life friendliness to my beloved fightstick.
Please let me know if thereās anyone in Los Angeles whoās willing to help me out! Iām happy to drive the thing to your house, meet you at some community event, etc. Happy to work with references, too (if, for example, someone here isnāt āthe guyā but āknows a guyā, Iām happy to hear you out!) Thank you for your consideration.