Take the shadow blade. Find the nearest garbagecan.
Toss Shadow Blade in.
Look on e-bay for a cheap, broken stick for the same system that is designed to take more conventional arcade parts. Should be plenty of brokenass sticks online with Sanwa KOs in them that can be swapped out with a little work.
Clean it up and Mod that one with new parts.
Success!
Damn near any stick could be modded/fixed up with some elbow grease and willpower. But i’d rather not put the effort into fixing mass-produced, cheap crap that was never intended to last anyway. So many junk sticks over the years. blehh.
Well it’s his/her decision to mod it. It may come in useful to the community to figure out the way she/he mods it and it may come out to being not that bad of an option. Like he/she said it was like $5 a peice, so its probably more of a project of interest instead of actual usability. Even if it is a project of usability it may prove fruitful.
I doubt this is a project looking for a challenge. His first post admits he is a newb to stick modding. Live and learn. Meh, at least he is only out $10…
Exactly my point. If he fails there are 2 less of those sticks laying around waiting space. If he succeeds then he recycled something and made it better.
One thing Alpha is right on is the Shadow Blade isn’t a beginners level project.
I Modded my fare share of el-cheapo budget sticks in the past, some are worth modding, if nothing else the experience and the challange.
Shadow Blade is an exercise in futility
It could be done, but it never be that great.
Just not trying to lead someone off a project they want to try. Especially if it may make them a better modded later or give someone else information about the stick before going in. Knowledge is power.
I’m afraid I’m too late, but that stick is too shallow to easily mod in my opinion. If I recall correctly it is about an inch and a quarter thick, and to fit Japanese arcade stick parts you need at least 1.7 inches minimum interior clearance, but 2 inches is ideal.