My bad, I’m an idiot. Cable conntector for the top left panel was not connected, must of come out when I was modding.
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My parts from akishop came today. Switching the buttons to Sanwa was no problem. You have to mount Seimitsu joysticks directly tho, the SS plate doesn’t fit. Was no problem either. However I thought connecting it was plug and play too, which is not true unless you order extra cables. The stock cables are soldered to the stock joystick. So I cut em off and soldered them to my new Seimitsu. Wasn’t pretty cuz I suck at soldering, but easier than expected.
edit: I also downloaded a Mayflash V2 art template somewhere here and created my own “wallpaper”. Printed it out on DIN A3 without scaling or resizing, but it was too big unfortunately. So make sure that your stuff fits before printing 
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I need some help installing the Sanwa stick into the Venom arcade as still confused how am suppose to get the H5 pin harness (5 coloured wires) into the white 4 sets of 2 pin slots? I was advised about using 2.8mm crimp but I dont’ see how this is going to work?
I have read about the female to female cable only available from Amazon at the moment in packs of 5. I would rather just use the harness without soldering or buying extra tools for the job. Thanks for any help.
Without soldering your options are to buy an actual 5 pin harness like Dark said, or to ghetto rig it and cut the connectors on the 4 2 pin connectors a few inches from where the wire connects to the plastic connector, and use electrical tape to connect the four directions to whichever connector they should connect to, and the ground cable to the second wire of any one of the 2 pin connectors. To help imagine it, you’ll have the four connectors with all of the wires snipped, and 5 of the 8 total wires from the original plastic connectors will then connect to your joystick.
Thanks for the information. Currently looking for any supply in the UK or Europe for that TE cable and in the mean time I’ll try connect the harness with electrical tape. I think someone posted a diagram on page 2 is that the sort of connection I need to do? Thanks.
Yeah that’s mostly the same aside from his using solder points to connect the joystick’s ground signal to a ground point on the PCB rather than the ghetto way that I told you to use. Either way will work though.
The one I liked too? There isn’t any UK supplier.
Shipping is $24 a bit expensive so will go with the splicing method hopefully should go well. Anyone managed to take the plexi cover off yet?
Anyone know how you remove the Plexi from this stick? Wanna sort out some custom art and don’t want to damage the case.
Just swapped out buttons myself and with help from a friend we removed the PCB and soldered the stick wires directly on underneath it. It would have been much easier just to get the fem to fem cable! Still, jobs a good 'un.
Am having problems with the wiring, buttons are fine but cant get the stick to work? See picture on how I set it up (left side is old, right side Sanwa with harness cable).
Hi all, I purchased this stick today which is also my first arcade stick ever. I can’t seem to find any custom faceplates for it anywhere, how would I go about changing the look of the stick, is there a standard type that fits most sticks or I presume they would be model specific. Any help or advice would be much appreciated thanks.
Looks like you joined signal and ground on 3 of the 4 directions. Also, you need to know which of the original wires is signal, and which is ground. Have a multimeter?
Nope. Should look like this:
Yep. You just gotta make sure you’re chaining the Ground signal to the right contact/terminal.
I don’t have a multimeter. The ground wire looks more complicated now will have to look into after work, thanks. I ordered a 5 pin jst xh cable for backup.
I can’t seem to download it? I’ve got the mega app like the link.suggests but it’s not doing anything! Any help guys??
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I got one of these delivered yesterday and put a Seimitsu LS-40 and some PS-14-Gs on the beast. The buttons were a proper bitch to get in there, they were really tight in the metal. I had to work each button in and out to shave off some plastic but they got in there in the end! Also I went with the stick that didn’t have a PCB thinking I would use 4.8mm terminals to connect the stick, this was also very tight on one side (I had to bend the connectors on one micro switch) so I would recommend going for the 5 pin pcb type sticks even if it means some funny wiring.
Good news, the plexi is just held down by magnets and the artwork is just a bit of cardboard. If you unscrew the stick and take out the buttons you can just push the plexi from the back. Easy peasy.
I will try to post pics of the stick if I can find a camera anywhere!