This is my 1st project also, and I don’t really understand any of what I’ve read so far in this thread can any one help me out? I’m not trying to mod anything I’m trying to build from scratch. What type of wood is best. I don’t even understand how you guys make an inside to a stick. I’m teh suck at shop type stuff been out of High School to long.
hi i bought few days ago an original tekken tag stick by hori
and i just wanted to ask is it possible to put in a sanwa buttons ?
i’v measured the size of the buttons in the stick and they are 24 mm
You can but your have to use Dremmel tool to make the holes 30mm in ur tk stick to fit the sanwa buttons.
what about Sanwa OBSN-24 ?? they are 24 mm i gues ?? will thy fit in ?
T5 stick mod question:
Can I use sanwa LB30N instead of JLF joystick?
In my experience, I have found trying to wire two controllers together usually results in screwy results and I don’t think it is really worth doing. Just wire a playstation, buy an ems total control plus with joystick mode and you can get a converter for anything else. I wire official psone pre-dualshocks, because they are easy to wire, and work with every converter I have ever used except ones for the gamecube (yeah, who cares). The other reason is that they have an extremely long cord, long cord FTW.
On the mod: Its a pretty simple mod, here is what you have to do:
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Dremel out the button holes because the agetec holes are like 29mm and not 30. best way to do this is put the button base on the hole trace around it with a magic marker and dremel away. Also be careful not to hold the dremel in one place too long because the metal will get to hot and burn the plastic covering.
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grind down the mounting clips and brackets that held the joystick on, then (assuming you removed the metal plate to open up the metal holes, drill four holes in the plastic to mount the joystick.
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Wire it and you are good to go.
Those are start buttons and way too small, the button holes are probably like 29mm just like the agetec.
Question: Does anyone know a good place to buy or find japanese style joysticks for cheap? Even used? I can’t hardly find them on ebay or anywhere else nowadays. Thanks.
J-ride, Ponyboy sells Sanwa JLFs for $19, and his shipping is low too.
I’ll be getting a Namco stick in a few days and I wanted to know if getting Sanwa buttons would be a good replacement for the ones on the stick.
Oops, I should have clarified my question.
Does anyone know a good place or model to buy the hori/japanese style cases or whole joysticks or easy to mod, easy to find models, Agetecs are becoming scarce these days!
The stock buttons and stick on the namcos are very decent, but they’re definitely not sanwas.
Most are out of production so your best bet is ebay or the trading forum here.
http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?t=11166
Some Agetecs that might be fairly cheap. I’m selling Agetecs in my sale thread as well, but there is only one left that isn’t already modded.
~Paik
But would you recommend me getting it modded to get them replaced with sanwas? Also what kind of gate does the Namco stick have?
The namco stick is a bit harder to mod than say an agetec, but worth it from what I hear.
Stock namco stick=square gate.
This must be getting annoying for you guys but this is the last question for a bit. I play 2D fighters and 3D fighters and wanted to know what kind of buttons/stick would be right to support both of these games if thats possible. (i.e: hori/sanwa buttons and square/8way gate)
It’s a matter of preference. I can play both 3D and 2D fine on a stock Sanwa, but some people just can’t. They either prefer an LS-32 (or other Seimitsu sticks) or an octagon gate. If you mod with a Sanwa or Seimitsu joystick, you have a decent amount of work to do and the Sanwa JLF wouldn’t be mounted at the correct height (it would be long). The Seimitsu LS-32 (01) would require you to make a hole in the bottom metal plate.
I’ve of the mind that if you can’t play on any given decent stick then you just shouldn’t be playing at all. But I’m an asshole. : )
As for buttons, Sanwa is clearly the better choice. The nice thing is you don’t have to do mod on the buttons holes for the Namco.
~Paik
Paik4Life: With what you said it sounds like I’m gonna get the Sanwa buttons and think about changing the gate.
not sure if this was posted before in the previous pages but im too lazy to look through 28pages so… any info on modding a t4 hori? I want to mod my t4 hori w/ a sanwa but the thing is i want to keep the original artwork so is there a way to mod it without peeling off the artwork or do i have to take it off in order to mount it? i know there isnt enough clearance if i just screw it on like the t5 hori so how does everyone do this mod? thanks.
Hey I’ve been modding a sfac stick with sanwa buttons (had to make a new case obviously). I’ve been thinking about going with a sanwa bat top stick as well. Where can I got about getting a bat top to match my green sanwa buttons and will I have any problems with voltage or any of that nonsense 
A bat top is an attachment made by Sanwa that is compatibile with almost all Sanwa or Seimitsu sticks. It only comes in white, black, blue, and red. Since it’s an attachment, that replaces the balltop, there will be no problems associated specifically with it.
~Paik
no green, nooooo! anyway, so all it raelly is is a normal sanwa stick with a bat top to screw on instead of the ball?