Official Sanwa Modification Thread

…they dont have it there

You should look harder, or call them up and ask them over the phone.

The competition shaft part numbers:
95-0193-00 Red
95-0193-02 Blue
95-0193-03 Green
95-0193-05 Yellow
95-0193-06 Black

yuo fail at teh intarweb lolol

As Toodles said, try harder.

Sanwa joystick help pzl

Hi, im a new member and i was wondering if u guys can help me out. I bought a mini interact arcade stick and its the worse stick ever. I want to replace teh old stick with the sanwa joystick. Is this possaible and how can it be done. Also when i opened it up, they where 5 wires leading from the joystick onto the mother board. Can i simply jsut replace though wires and insert them in the sanwa joystick. Those who were wondering where to buy sanwa joystick this is the site.

http://starburstcoin.com/a/browse.php?category=40&search=&ofs=4

Thhhhhank u very much

zapatistab
It doesn`t matter.

KojiroSon
Himuragames.com has em.

can people give me their opinion on sanwa sticks vs Happ sticks please. i read the article about this but i cant decide which to get.

Is there anybody who played Happ Competition joysticks and then switched over to sanwa… how big a difference was there on feel? i know sanwa sticks are better but i dont want my hand to feel uncomfortable while i play.

I’ve had the experience of moving from Comp to Sanwa parts so I could give you an idea. Generally unless you like long shafts you’re gonna to approve of the lightness and ease of response on the Sanwas. Especially if you’re using a Comp stick with a hard spring. Sanwas are extremely loose (like an analog stick…but just a tad bit tighter) and generally aren’t as high up from the stick. I like that though cuz it means I have to put less throw in to do the motions.

Both sticks are pretty clicky. Neither really makes more noise than the other IMO. The other big difference is that Sanwas generally come equipped with a square gate. Meaning you can feel the diagonals and all that good stuff. Some people prefer a circular gate where you don’t have any dips in the diagonals but it’s just preference really.

I seem to prefer the Sanwas just out of the fact that they require less hand work and are more precise. You barely have to move your hand when doing link combos and stuff in CVS2/3S. Happ’s are still cool though.

Do you guys think I’m better off top mounting a sanwa or bottom mounting and routing out the area for the stick? I was wanting to achieve the same stick height as the HRAP. From what TRNG tells me, I’d want to route out the wood so it is about 8mm thick (i’ll be using 1mm lexan), that’s thicker than 1/4", but I don’t trust MDF at that thickness, and I don’t know how countersinking will turn out either.

ragnafrak
How thick is the MDF you working with? If you have 19mm thick (3/4) then it is no problem for, it will hold. And it is best to route out the top and topmount it, this way you have good amout of mdf to screw the sanwa mountinplate on without anything happening.

ok, so i’m using 3/4" mdf, i’m thinking i’ll use the 8S mounting plate ( http://www.himuragames.com/images/mounting_plate_04.jpg ), so i still get that desired height when I topmount it. Because if I used the regular bracket the shaft would be too long… I dunno. Does this sound right?

If you use the 8S it will sit higher, use the standard 8T and sink it down 8mm (your lexan is 1mm) so it is 25mm left of the lever.
http://arkadesticks.com/eightmms.JPG

ok I see, like how chainz does it here:

should I worry about the artwork in that area being kind of loose? Or will it naturally adhere (like static electricity) to the lexan anyway?

Yes, I told Chainz this also ^^.
Try taking a A4-paper and put it over a hole the size of the sanwahole and put lexan over the paper, you will see that it doesn`t go down ^
^, just make a large enough hole in the artwork where the lever is so it does not touch the artwork when you move it and it will be ok I think.

cool, thanks for all the help man ;]

Nemas problemas, send me pm if you have any other questions, maybe I can help (can try anyway ^_^).

hi, anyone tried dremelling a square gate sanwa into a completely round one? is it any good? i’m having difficulty in using square gate sanwas with games the have lots of hcf and qcf motions. If it doesnt work then i’d have to buy the oct-gate ones…

i think that it was kofiend that posted about this… he sanded an octagonal gate into a circle, and it was too… open. the stick hit the switches (or the pcb) too hard and screwed it up. sanwa does make a circular gate, though… the gt-0 or something like that. from pic in the catalog that TheRealNeoGeo posted, i cant figure out how it would attach to the stick, but it could be worth looking into.

Hi, I want to try and build a small arcade joystick, much like the Hori Fighting Stick 2. Is there a website that sells the parts? and also do I have to build the base or can I just buy it already constructed and I just put the buttons and stick in?

Thankyou.

I think the GT-0 is only meant to be used with the JLW stick, that’s why it looks so different from the other JLF restrictors.

i don’t think screw-ins are good for mods at all. :l the screws take too much space and they’re REALLY hard to fit in, and they’re even harder to take out. :frowning: