Happy Chinse New Year!
祝大家：
新春快乐！
万事如意！
恭喜发财！
龙年行大运！
my name includ 龙（long)
xianglong
湘龙
PS：we will start work Jan 31.all replace parts will send after Jan 31
Does anyone have problems with the buttons being very squeeky(clear red obsc-30 and clear smoke) the stick is the limited edition red I’ve tried taking the buttons out and cleaning them but they still make the noise,It’s the actual button moving is making the noise not the plunger inside the button.
Any help would be appreciated.
Happy chinese new year to you too Xianglong we’re all very grateful for you help here.
i had the same problem and i told arcadeshock about it and they were kind enough to send me replacements 
Did they just send you new buttons or a new stick ? I notice it’s only in the clear buttons the start button is fine.
clear ones
My felt bottom plate will not screw in fully. It looks like the screws themselves stripped the plastic that they screw into and now when the stick is on a table it wobbles due to the bottom piece being uneven . Has anyone else had this problem
Good sir,
I’v already contacted you.
I’d ask of you to please send me back as I still havn’t solved my issue with one of my buttons suddenly not working.
Thanks in advance.
yep i have the same problem, i got used to it though :\
I have only had my stick for a few weeks so Ive searched around to see if this was a common problem but didnt find much good to know its not just me
I got my Qanba in the mail yesterday. I must say, I am really impressed. i really like the design and feel for the stick and it works really good.
Thought there was a consensus that the clear/translucent sanwa buttons are squeaky. mine sure as hell are.
I have the same sanwa buttons in my TE(the clear red ones) and that makes 0 noise so it’s not just those buttons.Do you have the limited red or one of the other ones with clear buttons ?
The actual base of the button is rubbing off the plexi which is the problem ,so I don’t know if they made the plexi or the metal plate slightly too big or something.
i have limited ice blue, squeaked with original plate and replacement plate… I think i read somewhere that sticking thin material between the button and plunger silences it, because the contact they’re having with one another is causing the sound. Maybe that’s not the case with you?
I’ve just resigned myself to not paying attention to it. Only happens when i hit the buttons a certain way.
I have the Qanba limited red and the buttons are silent, I also have another stick using Sanwa clears and they’re also silent. Maybe it’s a batch issue?
maybe, but i’ve definitely heard about this more than a couple of times.
Hi guys, I brought a launch version of the Qanba R4, and it mostly works great. In xbox mode, I never have any problems with it, but in PS3 mode, it keeps randomly pausing. Yesterday this happened to me in a tournament, and caused me to be disqualified. Any ideas why this happening?
Do the black Qanba handles have ''Qanba" on them like the white ones?
Yes, this has happened to me a couple times but I never figured out why and am 100% positive I did not hit the start button. Unfortunately I have not found anything to explain this. I sure hope it is not a defect or something. I’m sorry to hear about the disqualification. I also have the launch regular version but I have Q4RAF.
I just noticed yesterday when I was removing the back panel, I was careless to check whether or not all the wires were cleared away from the screws and as a result, the black thin wire that leads to the small buttons (Home, Turbo, Mode, etc.) was damaged pretty bad with the wire exposed and almost broken. I think this has caused the stick to show up with 2 blue lights on instead of 1 red light whenever I’m assigned to a controller on the PS3 (haven’t tried 360). Would carefully stripping the wire and wrapping the metal ends of the wire with electrical tape help?
Also, as this is my first arcade stick, I definitely hope that it lasts me a long while with good care. Is there a way to tell when your Sanwa stick needs replacement (spring, switches, etc)? Buttons would be easy to tell I’m sure but they’re so far OK with the stock buttons. Is it possible to change to a Seimitsu joystick and buttons if I were curious to see how they feel or does the design not allow that?
EDIT: azido, is your Start button stock? Mine is but I’m not sure whether that has anything to due with it. I’m just trying to see what’s similar in both ours to cause this problem.
I have this exact same symptom, but with my somewhat limited EE knowledge, I’m pretty sure that that damaged wires would not cause this to happen - at worst, the buttons wouldn’t register at all, instead of activating randomly.
What’s happening with our sticks seems more like the PCB is losing power for a split second, and the game treats it as if the controller came unplugged. Note that if you’re playing online, your stick seems like it works fine =P.
Anyways, I contacted xianlong about it, and he said he’d be sending me a new PCB after new years.
Can anyone with a Qanba do a simple test on a PC ?
Plug it in… go to Control Panel->Game Controllers and test if all the buttons work.
Then in windows “Suspend Session” to memory aka Sleep mode the PC.
When you awaken he PC… do all the buttons still work fine or do some buttons turn on? and does it go crazy (fixable only by unplugging it) ?