Paradise Arcade Shop, LED Joysticks, Buttons, Mods and more

Tech Talk
1721

Here’s the video.

1722

I second this. I’m wanting a slightly stiffer 56 spring right now. I feel that the JLF springs currently on the site are fine though.

1723

I would like to see LS-56 and LS-40 springs in addition to the JLF offerings currently available. Can we expect The Twist product line to expand to other joysticks?

1724

Actually I heard back last night on something fun we have been keeping on the back burner.
That project will be with the same company that does some of our shafts, so there is a very high likelihood of seeing some new stuff soon. We are debating a kickstarter for this old project.

1725

Could it be…Project Magenta???

1726

Haha nah we are just doing that
Smaller project but fun…
Actually we will probably use this to test out kickstarter. I have another project that we really wanted to do but requires some molding and was too high of an upfront cost…

1727

Pnoy,iNENDOi we currently have 4 different LS-56 springs in stock and LS-32’s…just put them on today!
paradisearcadeshop.com/search?controller=search&orderby=position&orderway=desc&search_query=springs

1728

Is that shallow body joystick (HORI style) still in the making?

1729

Yes, we are ordering parts for the stick this month.

1730

For anyone interested, we will be hosting Kaimana code here temporarily


Website downloads will go up soon

1731

Life slapped me in the face just before the Kaimana finally became available in the store… :frowning: Oh well, I guess better then than after buying it and being in a deeper hole because I already spent money on it.

In either case, I will get one soon enough, along with some LED’s and harnesses to test with, so that I can contribute to the mindshare.

1732

I’m modding my nubytech sf stick. I want that old school happ feel. I’m buying the IL eurostick but I have a question about the buttons. What’s the difference between concave and convex buttons? Which one will give me that old school feel?

1733

Concave will give you an old school feel but they aren’t nearly as accurate to play on as convex. Convex still has about 90% of the same feel, the main difference is the accuracy and comfort to play on. I’ve used both types in my sticks before and I really liked the concave a lot, they were definitely better to play on while still retaining that old school clickity-clackity feel of HAPP style buttons.

1734

you want the concave for classic american arcade feel, they are curved. convex is flat. then you probably want cherry switches if you want to go all the way.

1735

The IL buttons we carry are the original buttons Happ used before moving production to China, so an IL concave button with a Cherry switch won’t just feel like the old school american buttons, it will be the button you remember playing on. Before these buttons, leaf switches were the standard.

1736

Alright, so I just received my Little Kahunas from PAS and I have to say this is much better than the FA Silencers in the Seimitsu PS-14K. I’ll be ordering more soon in the future for my seimitsu sticks.

1737

I got my kaimana in today and finished connecting every up but I could help with a problem I ran into. My first 3 kick buttons turn on the leds for my home/start/select and vice versa. The buttons work as they should in game but not with the leds.
Edit : My joystick also turns on the 4th kick button for some reason.

1738

@yellowCan I ran into something similar, you need to change the following so it maps to how you have your LED’s daisy chained. So first LED from the controller would be 0, the next 1… and so on

#define LED_JOY 0
#define LED_HOME 1
#define LED_GUIDE 1
#define LED_SELECT 2
#define LED_BACK 2
#define LED_START 3
#define LED_P1 4
#define LED_P2 5
#define LED_P3 6
#define LED_P4 7
#define LED_K1 8
#define LED_K2 9
#define LED_K3 10
#define LED_K4 11

So if your first LED is K4 then you need to change
#define LED_K4 11
to
#define LED_K4 0

and then change the index for each LED…

I have an 8 button only starting with K4 and ending at P4 and I changed mine to:

#define LED_P1 4
#define LED_P2 5
#define LED_P3 6
#define LED_P4 7
#define LED_K1 3
#define LED_K2 2
#define LED_K3 1
#define LED_K4 0

Does that help?

1739

Convex is not Flat. Convex is curved in the opposite direction of Concave, like a dome.

As illustrated here

It is hard to see on the IL Competition buttons, Sanwa buttons and some Seimitsu buttons but they are all have a slight dome shape to them making them Convex.

Only certain models of Seimitsu Buttons and maybe some Korean buttons are completely flat

1740

@jwyder is correct, you would need to modify the #define LED_* constants if you change the connection order on your panel. I got my panel yesterday and it’s wired to match the default order that the Kaimana shipped with.

I am playing with the code now and looking forward to testing this now that I have a working panel with leds in front of me!

Update: I posted the led wiring diagram to the Kaimana support wiki. Hopefully it helps someone getting started.

http://support.paradisearcadeshop.com/lib/exe/fetch.php?w=500&tok=633a2d&media=kaimana_led_chain_default.png

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// Map function names to LED index numbers
// specific to ParadiseArcadeShop.com Kaimana board (PS360+LED)
// change or expand as needed
#define  LED_JOY     0
#define  LED_HOME    1
#define  LED_GUIDE   1
#define  LED_SELECT  2
#define  LED_BACK    2
#define  LED_START   3
#define  LED_P1      4
#define  LED_P2      5
#define  LED_P3      6
#define  LED_P4      7
#define  LED_K1      8
#define  LED_K2      9
#define  LED_K3      10
#define  LED_K4      11

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