The Optical Joystick Discussion

Tech Talk
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Depending on how the Hori Joystick is sold, there might not be a manufacturers warranty.
Is the joystick it self sold OEM proper from Hori themselves via authorized distributor, or did someone guy the joystick out of a controller and then sold the Joystick.
If it’s the latter, you can forget it Hori does not even have to recognize that is even a sale of their own product.

If we’re talking the Optical Joystick, Hori isn’t going to do a thing. Hori themselves never sold standalone OEM Optical Hayabusa joysticks.
Hori will see it as their Liability ended when someone decided to pull the optical joystick out of a controller and decide to resell it.

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considering he said it came with his rap v. im sure its safe to assume that it wasn’t gutted and put into a different rap v.

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I bought it from arcadeshock as the Real Arcade Pro V Silent (Japan import), it came with the optical joystick and silent buttons installed. I’ll contact arcadeshock first and then hori.

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Curious, what are the options for JLF drop-in opticals these days? Looks like the three main optical options from a few years ago (Rollie, Spark, and Gamerfinger) appear to be out of production.

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there is hayabusa optical, but ut only comes as prt of a complete hori stick, but i hear arcade shock are removing them from the sticks and selling them standalone

otherwise its the same old stuff

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That’s what I thought… though I can’t find anything in stock anywhere. Anyone know of any shop that carries any of those JLF optical PCB’s?

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I just got my spark ce from paradise arcade a week ago. It was showing out of stock on the site but I messaged and they sold me one.

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If you wanna spend lots of money you can try using the ascii optical joystick board

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https://imgur.com/a/R7kUH I got a shit ton of Wico P360 joysticks and MAS sticks. Hit up RoyalFlush if you’re interested in getting one.

570

@Feargus001100 this is your dream come true

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Feargus hasn’t been active in 7 months.

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I have acquired 2 more NOS Wico Perfect 360 joysticks.

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So has anybody refurbished a Wico here?

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I haven’t been on here in years - haven’t modded an arcade stick since maybe 2010?

I was digging through my closet and found a little bag with the wiring harness and paper instruction sheet (in Japanese) to install the Sanwa Flash.

Then I remembered I’d installed it in an arcade stick I used for maybe 3 hours tops (Mad Catz TE Fight Stick San Diego Comic Con edition), boxed it back up and forgot all about it.

I’ve been out of the loop for a while, I just learned that Mad Catz, and Lizard Lick are gone, and Brooks has a wonder USB PCB (that I’m thinking about getting for my MC Cthulhu equipped stick).

Just out of curiosity, how much does this thing go for these days?

I have with it the: Flash 1 PCB, Rubber & clear plastic washer, stiffer spring, 5v wiring harness, 5-pin wiring harness that terminate in male .187" quick disconnects, yellow dust cover & black dust cover, and the Japanese instructions.

BTW: Not trying to sell it, I’ve been away for years, but I know the Trading Outlet is where to post for that specifically.

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I know they are not worth the amount they were fetching 5 years ago or so. But the price would range from 110 to 50.
Depending if its a Reissue or Og.

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Is the engagement on the optical hayabusa the same as the mechanical version? What’s the engagement like compared to a jlf or the ls-40?

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Engagement of Optical Hayabusa vs the vanilla/regular Hayabusa, the same
One has mechanical switches the other uses optical sensors for switches, thats the only difference.

The Hayabusa has about the same engagement and longer throw than the Sanwa JLF
Hayabusa is even a lit looser too. But over all many people consider the Hayabusa a “clone” of the JLF.

The LS-40 has the shorter throw and shorter engagement than ether the JLF or Hayabusa