The Razer Arcade Stick Thread!

Stealth mod is best mod.

Curious on why you tapped the home signal from the button pad and not the pin.

Thank you!

In this case, it seemed like the way to go. :slight_smile:

I was pretty exhausted when I modded this, so I think I simply overlooked the main board’s Guide point. I don’t have a Razer on hand anymore, so would you mind pointing out which pin it is?

Did anyone else find that the cables are glued onto the PCB? I found that strange seeing as Razer’s approach with this stick was to make it as mod-friendly as possible but there is definitely glue holding some of the cables down on my stick and i can’t seem to get them off for the life of me
Edit: I ran a jet lighter on an exacto knife and sliced through the glue (the glue was between the white plastic part on the pcb and the cable - not directly on the board itself) - it’s working but what a tedious process for something that could be so much easier!

gluing wire to a PCB is a very common practice. Mad Catz, Hori and many other manufacturers to it as well.

Yep, and I wish they wouldn’t : /

But that would be one less thing for Gummo to dremel.

Dremelling glue sounds like something only a drunk person would do.

Where’s Joe?

They glue wire to PCBs it as Glue is cheap, And I seen it done everywhere, in alarm clocks, keyboards, radios, you name it.
Is it a pain? Depending on the glue yes. Hot Glue is easy to peel off, Super Glue is stupid, Epoxy is a Sonuvabitch

Epoxy on a PCB? “I didn’t want to mod it anyway…”

Look at that sloppy glue job though, very unimpressed! All over other pins that it shouldn’t be touching (was sloppy all over but this was probably the worst part)
Better yet, I contacted Razer’s support team about the sloppy glue job and this is what they said:

lol “I will be helping you, I can’t help you, thanks for buying our stuff”

Edit: I took the issue to Razer’s CEO’s facebook page, and they are shipping me an entire new unit because of the glue job - pretty impressive! They also mentioned that they’re now going to tighten up the manufacturing process and make sure that there’s only glue where there needs to be.

hmmm

So did anyone actually win the art contest? I can’t seem to find anything on it other than the 5 finalists on facebook. I need to replace the ugly.

I’ve been talking to Alvin at Razer since last week over email from this thread. He’s been super helpful in getting pin outs (saves me some multimeter testing) and providing some info about the PCB’s piggyback capability. He doesn’t seem to think trace cutting is needed if you’re using the J19 header pins.

Anyway, for those curious, here’s the PCB with everything labeled based on the emails + my own poking around. Super helpful for anyone else that’s looking to modify theirs.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/1syb91qmqftk3zg/Atrox-r01.gif

Cutting the usb trace is needed if you plan on still using the Atrox’s usb jack.

So… uhh…

STILL no word if Razer might actually market these joysticks for something OTHER than the XBox 360?
I think it’s obvious they’ll support the XBox One – eventually – but, in the meantime, what about the “other side of the fence?”

Hello, i’m a noob and i’m lurking for my first arcade stick, mainly for retrogaming and steam games.

So, i guess it’s compatible with pc, but will it works with steam big picture? Anyone is playing on pc?
Is the stick heavy?
I’ve read some reviewsbut perhaps misunderstood (english is not my native language): Is the Razer fully plastic? I mean, when you play, do you have the feeling of a toy?

I know my question seems stupid, but i’m a bit lost at the moment.

Razer stick is mostly plastic, the top panel has a metal plate in it. And there some metal hardware for reinforcement, such as the metal strut cylinder inside.

Again, thanks for your reply. I really appreciate your help. Mostly plastic? But the other stick too, i guess?

Just the top and bottom panels are metal in the other stick.

It sounds more to me like a disadvantage to have only the metal top panel, when the other stick have both.