Nice, as it’s the first of the old body Hori mods that I’ve seen I have one appart on my desk that I’ve not finished yet.
I suggest going to Home Depot and getting “button cap socket bolts” they’ll require an allen wrench but look more nice and have a smaller softer head than a typical bolt like you’ve used.
Thanks for the advice about the bolts. I wasn’t sure what type of bolts to use, so I stuck with the standard ones used on most U.S. sticks. Thanks, all the advice you spill out in the threads, really helped out on this stick. And thanks too Spiify as well.
Agetec for xbox
This is what I made for 3S play, thanks to all that helped (Cigarbob, DF, ect.)
Hey Spiffyshoes, when you widen the holes in the pcb to fit the sanwa switches do you use an ordinary drill bit?
Anyone know if it is possible to mod a Hori SC2 stick with Sanwa parts? I am considering buying one and would like to know.
Thanks in advance to anyone that helps.
It’s possible, I know several people that have done this, plus there’s some on these forums that do this type of mod so if you’re planning on it I’m sure it wouldn’t be too hard to get some info.
Okay, cool, now what about the deal with an R2 button? There any way to hack the PCB or something to make one? (Sorry if this sounds stupid, but I may change the layout to better suit SF games and the likes.)
usually if there’s no button, the chip on the PCB will still have a contact for the button. the copper trace just won’t go to it to wire up a button. I’ve figured one out to add buttons to a stick that didn’t have the button already wired up on the encoder chip on the PCB. I’ve added R1 and L1 on a Hori Tekken 3 stick. Now the stick has 6 buttons.
I have a hori sc2 stick that I’ve modded by adding a sanwa stick to. I would also like to add actual sanwa buttons. how difficult s this,and is there an faq or something i can read concerning replacing the buttons on the sc2 stick. replacing the buttons on my x-arcade was easy, all quick disconnects, and i have very little problem with sodering, I just can’t figure out how you go about taking the old buttons off and putting the sanwa ones in. anyone got a suggestion?
ShinJN came up with even bending the Sanwa buttons in and then up also so that the prongs will line up a little better.
I grind out the traces of a few of the buttons to “re-route” the lines so that the button layout is
[] <| R1
X O L2
thanks for the info. i’m not up to re-wiring the buttons or anything, i’m still very new at all this, but i love the sanwa parts, and i eventually wanna actually build my own stick, but for now i’m practicing with premade stuff…
You could use an ordinary drill bit. I’m not sure what Armad1ll0 uses. I decided against widening the holes on my pcb’s since the prongs are so big on the sanwa buttons if you made an ordinary round hole it would have to be pretty big and I was worried about the stability of having two holes that big right next to eachother. If you could make a small rectangular slit it would be better. What I ended up doing was just bending the prongs down flat and then soldering some striped wire to all the prongs. I then threaded all the wires through the holes and pulled everything as tight as I could get it and then soldered the wire to the PCB. I then just clipped off the excess wire. It provides a secure mounting for the PCB withought having to widen the holes.
a small dremmel bit head. I just grind out a larger hole similar to drilling. It’s big enough for the prong to go through. It’s a better solution than making extensions. You need the PCB to be mounted solidly.
If I got Sanwas, would I want to replace the ball top with a bat top or no? I’ve never been to japan or seen a japanese arcade cabinet with sanwas in them
Also I have an old PS1 Namco stick like the ones you guys seem to be modding. Is it rare or something? (could I sell it for parts) It’s got yellow buttons and a sanwa-like stick in it with a ball top that unscrews.
Are you wanting to sell the whole joystick or just the parts? If your wanting to sell the whole thing how much would you want for it? I know some one who was wanting one with some sanwa parts in it.
Well, I guess I could sell the whole thing, now I don’t know if has sanwa parts in it, I don’t know anything about these sticks. I got it from a resale store for cheap cheap.
Hey Parry I sent you a PM.
It’s worth at least $50 plus shipping.
Thanks for the answer spiffyshoes, seems way safer than drilling a hole. Thanks. Peace.