Me too. I gotta get one someday. That white VSHG makes me fap my pants everytime too.
My poor bastard HSS is one of my most neglected and prized possessions. I bought it just a month or two shy of getting a Sega Naomi cabinet. I changed the color scheme slightly, replaced buttons with PS-14G, and added Sanwa meshballs.
New overlay applied to freshly painted 2L12B panel. New from the factory, it was already rusting.
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Very nice. Very jealous of that NOU-2001 overlay as well. 
Are you going to repaint the casing, or remove the yellowing via hydrogen peroxide?
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like sex on prom night, so nice.
I have a question about your dismantled case though, I guess for future reference (or if i ever encounter one with a similar issue), regarding the instruction strip chrome glass holders and plexi, is it easily re-attachable with just fasteners/bolts? or did it involve glue. Iām careful about mine and I dont want to mess around with it, but from what iāve seen it seems like thereās no bolts securing it on the inside, i was wondering how itās attached in the first place. will you be restoring that part too? (the instruction strip glass things)
eitherway, looking great, final product should be cool to see with that overlay.
Rertrobrite is too time consuming and since this one already has scratches and gouges, Iām gonna coat it with SEM Color Coat (this stick deserves better than Krylon). Iāve been sanding and filling scratches with plastic epoxy and Bondo all morning and I think Iāll get around to painting/coating/dyeing it tomorrow.
Yeah, I plan on restoring the move strip plex and the HSS-0130 plaque. I was able to buff out the scratches on the plexi %100 using rubbing compound and a foam pad, but ruined one plexi by getting Goo-Gone on it, so I had a replacement ordered online using the original dimensions. Anyway, the metal caps on the plexi hide the screws and their attached with some strong goo. I remember using lots of dental floss to remove them.
Iām eager to get this thing in playable form.
thanks for the info! so its the chrome trim thatās glued on, with the plexi screwed on to the base? from what i understand.
reason i ask is i hear squeaking on one of the chrome trims on mine when i press my finger to it and wobble a bit, it doesnt seem like its coming off, but yeah, precaution etc.
haha nice use of wire shelving, thatās also what i use for mine 
Yup, thatās correct.
I try to work a little on all my projects everyday and hereās on I finishedā¦
So I managed to score both a 1L6B and an actual HOT-2005 2L12B panel from other forums.
The 1L6B came with a Versus City overlay that looks like it was covered with self-adhesive clear wrap. Iāll probably be removing that sometime; but since Iāll probably actually put in a Hayabusa and some Kuros in there instead of the usual Sanwa stuff, I figured Iād get a custom Hori-based overlay done instead of getting a standard design:
The Vewlix-style one was just something I tossed together just for kicks; not sure where I was going with that one.
Funny. All this planning and designing and collecting Sega panels (already have a 2L12B, a 1L6B, and that ācustomā 2L12B panel I posted above; as well as an amazing repro 2-player Blast City overlay, an a NOU-2001 overlay currently in transit in the mail), and I donāt even have any of a Sega Candy cab (yet), HSS-0130, or even a custom/temporary casing to mount any/all these panels.
ill take any of the panels that you might not need :v
liking the direction of the hori one, but just imo, aim for the styling of the V-Kai ones. with the kanji and swoosh maybe. since youāre putting in haya-kuro combo, those kanji (of hayabusa and kuro, or even yaiba) would look very fitting.
either way cool stuffā¦ lol@vewlix
I actually did one up with the āHayabusa é¼ā and āKuro ēā kanjisā¦ but I lacked high-res images of those characters that Hori usesā¦
Edit: hereās my original idea with the āé¼ā and āēā kanjis, along with the swoosh that I added just now:
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e18/tidalwav/joysticks/sega-panel/sega_hori_hayakuro.png
Just need to find hi-res pictures of those twoā¦
Finally, a pic from me showing appreciation for Sega sticks!.. well, maybe just control panels and overlays so far, without any sticks.
Top to bottom: custom 2L12B panel, 1L6B panel with Versus City overlay (laminated or plastic-wrapped, it seems), slightly rusty 2L12B HOT-2005 panel, a super-repro of a 2-player Blast City overlay, and a NOU-2001 overlay.
Taito top panel art on an HSS-0130 is a bannable offense.
I think Hori should do a revival of the AstroCity/Sega Saturn HSS-0130 type twin stickā¦ this time as a one-player joystick.
It would still be oversized as hell ā werenāt the VLXās hideously oversized, too? --, yes, but a retro-nod to the past might not be such a bad thing!
Itās been long enough since the last run of HRAP 3ās (Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Prologue? 2011?) that a mini-revival of the case style wouldnāt be such a bad thing.
I never really sensed that there was much separation in case preference when all was said and done between Viewlix versus Astro City (old-style HRAP base; for purists, HRAP 2-3 line). I do get a sense that a bunch of people (including me) have a slight comfort preference towards the Astro City layout. The button curvature feels more natural than Viewlix layout. I can use either layout fine, myself, but I get a sense that the Astro City layout definitely has enough fans for a split in stick production. Horiās sort of doing that anyway with the HRAP N and FightStick production using the Astro City-like Noir stick-button layout and continuing the Viewlix/modded Viewlix layout in the Fighting Edge and HRAP V seriesā¦
Of course, Hori should release any future VLX or Mega Astro-type base with the Hayabusa and Kuro parts, too!
Look back to the past and on to the future with better parts!
The old GOOD Saturn sticks are getting so hard to get anyway that a newer run joystick (old Astro City/HSS-0130 style for one-player) with the better parts would probably be cheaper! => Itād also have a side benefit of helping to reduce the demand somewhat (and maybe costs, somewhat?) on the old sticks for you guys that actually want to buy the older collectiblesā¦ Iām just saying it can work to two different groupsā advantages! <=
The only thing Iād ask for is an option between swappable PCBās for PS3 or PS4, or XBox 360 and XBox One.
I honestly think a joystick for last gen is going to get harder to sell the deeper we go into this year unless thereās an option for an upgrade of some kind. Flash-reprogrammable PCB, replacement, add-on PCB???
I guess the only problem with my proposal is that Iām assuming more people can actually read directions and learn how to remove and install PCBās properly on their ownā¦ We still get questions on SRK Tech Forum about very basic parts removal that youād think more people would be able to figure out on their own by eyeballing or at least using the FAQāsā¦ if they actually read the FAQās!
Guess Iām being too optimistic there!
P.S. ā *Frankly, I think the Dreamcast Joystick case wouldnāt be a bad revival idea, either. Itās a nice mid-size case but still has more heft than a Hori FightStick and definitely more mod options with the extra interior spaceā¦ The insides just have to be redone for easier modern parts installation. Love the Agetec when a mod job is finished but otherwise itās still a pain-and-a-half to mod for better arcade parts!
Personally, Iād love to see an Astro style case with modern amenities like cable storage or even easy opening.
Mmmmmā¦a Hori VLX that takes full size Vewlix panels. Thatās what I want! That or something that takes Sega Lindberg panels.
Sega Boardmaster kinda fits your descriptionā¦
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1908672/candy/Boardmaster_angle.JPG
easy access with just 4 screws to undo, hinge flip top access, detachable cable managementā¦
except for the fact that its a supergun and costs around $600 
or
with some ingenious hacking, you can build a cable storage door for blast city bezelās and its easy access with camlocks. haha.
Someone just needs to start releasing modern casings thatāll fit Sega control panels (ie, something with 2-4 buttons on the side or top for Select/Home, and possibly L1/L2), and with all the usual stuff that the higher-end casings nowadays come with (detachable cable storage, player LEDs, easy opening top, etc).
I nominate Voltech if heās still around.
Anyone know where I can get a few sets of top panel screws. When I got my HSS-0130 I ordered from some random screw online store and I have no clue what the site was. A point in the right direction would be awesome.