I just did my first mod, it wasn’t as hard as I thought once I got it going. Plus it makes the stick a little more special since I was the one who upgraded it.
The iron, solder, wire, pcb, buttons and stick are worth it to make it a better stick. STill, I’m hoping I can find a used one at gamestop sometime later.
I just ordered a Hori SC2 stick. Possible to Sanwa mod one of these things? If so how would one go about doing it?
Also, would it be possible to keep the stock microswitches if I do mod it?
Change of plan, I am going to use 1/4" plexiglass instead of metal, with another plexi underneath for support with holes drilled for parts to go through and be be accessible.
Does anyone know the exact size the hole for the joystick needs to be?
actually, i think that the guide piece on the shaft is really lubricated. thats how my sanwas came, with a thick lube all over one piece.
Here’s evidince from mine, and one of the experts here, Armad:
http://www.hooligansofthenight.com/modules/PNphpBB2/files/my-1st-mod.jpg
Looks good, but any advice on modding one? I don’t wanna fuck this up. O_o;;
Well, you’ll need to order your parts from himura games of course. Just the JLF stick, not the one with the mounting plate. You’ll need to desolder the board if you want to go my way, but Armad did it without taking the board off. I had to cuz something made it stop working.
Desoldering braids are pretty cheap at Radio shack, as is wire, solder, and soldering irons. Use a low wattage soldering iron. You’ll see how to use the braid and iron together to desolder the board and then you’ll be able to get the buttons out. The stick comes off easy too, just unscrew.
When putting in the Sanwa stick, you’ll have to either cut off the two flanges on the sides of the JLF stick so it fits in the square recepticle, or cut off some of the square recepticle. In hindsight, I should’ve just cut the flanges off.
You’ll have to take apart the JLF stick too, that way you’ll see where the stick can screw in. You may have to file down those posts to get it on, but the holes will still be there to screw into. You’ll have to file down the top of where the screw goes in so your microswitches will sit flush when you put them back in.
Read some more stuff on mod everything and sanwa mods in the later pages and you should find some good stuff to help.
is there a tutorial like the T5 stick one for the yellow button namco stick?
if i want to install a sanwa stick into my yellow button namco stick, do i have to do any additional filing/cutting/melting, or can i just swap and solder? I’ve been looking explicitiy for this info but cant find it.
i heard something about taking out the shaft…and replacing it with the namco shaft. I removed the sanwa shaft but I don’t want to go any further before I know exactly what to do. TIA.
could i get a link to the t5 stick modding tutorial?
I’ve got a noobish question. It’s probably been asked before, but I had some trouble weeding my way through all the search results for anything relevant.
Can you use quick disconnects on Sanwa buttons? As opposed to soldering, that is.
Looking at some of the pictures I’ve seen, it looks like the prongs are similar to those on the stock buttons in the SF Anniversary stick. So I was thinking maybe it’s possible to use QDs like Nuby did.
I think the prongs on the Sanwas are smaller so you would have to solder.
How small are the prongs on Sanwa buttons? The Nuby SF stock button prongs are 2.5mm.
I ordered these black seimitsu’s because they were the only black screw-ins, but I’ve noticed now that the prongs are at an angle rather than straight, as you can see here.
I was planning on modding my grey and yellow namco, but does it seam feasible to fit this on the pcb or directly onto any pcb?
Pictures say a thousand words. Most of the info you just asked for is in this thread some where but you may have to get it from looking at pictures of ones people have done. Yes you will need to file some stuff down on the Sanwa joystick and widen some holes etc;. It should all be pretty obvious as to what needs to be done. Also it is pretty similar to the way SoulCaliFreak just described on how to mod his SC2 stick.
Here are some pictures of mine.
http://himuragames.suddenlaunch3.com/index.cgi?board=playerproj&action=display&num=1102918265
its really hard to see details in those pictures, do the black plastic base only have 3 prongs coming out of it?
There are 4 and they are all there.
Maybe ShinJN’s pictures of his mod would be easier to see.
http://www.shoryuken.com/forums/showthread.php?t=69679&highlight=Namco
Man, I just ordered my parts to mod a namco. What’s the easiest way to get that C-clip off the namco shaft so I can swap them. Otherwise it won’t fit, correct? I know Con came up with a way to make an unmodded Sanwa stick fit in, but that’s his little secret.
My alternative is just to throw a dual shock pcb in there with the stock parts and make it work again. Then get a hold of another Hori case, and put the parts I ordered in there since the stick will fit in w/o swapping the shaft.
Seriously tho, I’d like to put the new parts in the namco if I could just get an easy way to get those clips out.
i took my namco stick apart, if the c clip is the uh…little clip that looks like a c (OK WHAT’S AN E-RING NOTHING LOOKS LIKE AN E), theres some space, two little grooves on it. I wedged my flathead into the gap in the clip and it pulled right off.
Finally finished my joystick (Hell yeah!). 
Just wanted to give a big thank you to everyone on this thread who have helped me when I had inquiries (SpiffyShoes in particular).
If anyone wants me to post a couple of pics of my joystick (White sanwa buttons and white sanwa JLF stick), just ask. It’s not much of a looker though, didn’t bother painting it. :encore:
Shoutout to Rod (Himura) for the parts. You rock.
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