Does anyone know if there is a button that can replace the START button on the agetec? I plan on using it for the Home/Guide button.
Well there is a wide variety buttons here.
http://etokki.com/Arcade-Buttons
Also, this one seems small enough to do the trick.
Who says you have to replace the original Agetec START button to begin with??? Save as much money as you can by reusing useful hardware. Every penny you save turns into a few bucks saved down the line…
You can keep the existing START button in the Agetec as-is with the original microswitch and use that as a Home button… Just cut off a bit of wiriing a distance away (3-5 cm) from the button – DON’T cut the the direct connection to the switch! – and then solder or wrap that wiring (after stripping a bit) around new wiring coming off your the replacement PCB. One line of the repurposed START button is the common (or daisy-chained common), the other goes back to the Home solder/terminal position on the new PCB.
I never bothered to use the old Yellow START button that way myself… It’s being used as a switch for LED lights that I’m installing in all my Agetec mods. I’m buying Art Hong plexis plus VMU art for the finished mods. Red or Blue works best for the VMU art IMHO…
Yeah i’m having a problem with my start button as well. I’d rather not deal with soldering to that stupid little micro switch so i’m replacing it.
I do have a question that I hope anyone in this thread can help me with. I dremeled my face plate too wide so I had to swap out the OBSFs for OBSNs. Problem is now I have to cut those damn tunnels. I did it on my other Agetec and the bit I used was not suitable and eventually broke. What’s the recommended bit for this type of job?
Is it possible to mod the paewang pcb with the original dreamcast pcb? I would also like to keep the vmu slot functional. Or is the 360 pcb and chimp the only option?
Yep.
Hooked up the same way as any other common ground pcb’s - connect the VCC, GND, buttons, and directions.
Yep.
Hooked up the same way as any other common ground pcb’s - connect the VCC, GND, buttons, and directions.
Yep. You could use a Paewang PCB, I Just just decided to go the Chimp + Xbox 360 pcb Route that is all.
A Paewang would not be a problem.
Just remeber the golden rules of dual-modding
Connect ground with ground on both boards, VCC with VCC
and of course the signals for the buttons and directions
I played a few rounds on someone’s modded Agetec last night and remembered how much I loved those sticks. In particular, there’s a great texture to the faceplate that’s so much more pleasant to use than the acrylic sheen of TEs. Has anyone had any luck finding the name and a source for this type of plastic? I know it got a bit funky after years of use, but I’d love to buy a sheet of the stuff for future projects.
It isn’t plastic, that is the texture from the paint the used to paint the top metal panel
New here and just getting back into fighters. Thanks to this great site and all it’s kick ass modders and artists I have decided to build a new custom stick and also resurrect my agetec. I have ordered up a paewang, seimitsu ls 58 with smoke ball top, seimitsu smoke buttons and even created some new art for the redo of the agetec. I am also going to keep the VMU functional and will use this for my standard Dreamcast stick and as a temporary PS3 360 stick till I have my custom case all ready to go. Only question I have is in regards to my output wires. Since this will remain a dreamcast stick and the paewang will only be installed in it temporarily, am I better off just running the existing cables from the dreamcast pcb and the Paewang board out of the case? Or do you think it’s better if I convert both over to a single output like above? If I run them out separately is there some thing else I would need to common wire between the 2 pcb’s besides all the buttons and stick? Thanks for the help!