Custom Sticks Thread!!

[xavierjesus]

@dementia

Want. Those. Woody'esque. End. Panels. Now.

Sooo, info? Solid, wood type, veneer etc?

Quality work!

Ciao.

[spongdangly]

@dementia

Want. Those. Woody'esque. End. Panels. Now.

Sooo, info? Solid, wood type, veneer etc?

Quality work!

Ciao.

It looks like he bought a set of these, says they're sold out though.

[xavierjesus]

@spongdangly

Gracias hombre!

[dementia]

yep, they're one of the Focus Attack kits linked above.

[rancid3000]

So many Madcatz TE mods! I just swapped out the stock Sanwa JLF for a new Seimitsu LS-32-01 on my TE stick and I think I've caught the stick modding bug. I want to add in new art and buttons right away haha.

I'm currently brainstorming ideas for a Crimzon Clover stick and trying to gather some artwork. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be many high res pics online for that game. If anyone knows of any I'd appreciate the info.

[chempop]

copados33, those "ugly"'sticks are awesome! I'd be interested in hearing about what the casings are made from. I especially like that little guy with the blue balltop.

[z0mbie90]

That little stick with blue balltop is indeed awsome. A cute little stick. I'm jealous

[je_apostrophe]

Here's a blog post with more pictures and details: http://jay--mccarthy.blogspot.com/2011/ ... stick.html

The stick was made by brokenhalo

[Edwards80]

Finished wiring up my Xbox 360/PC arcade stick last night.

I used a Seimitsu LS-32-01 with Seimitsu buttons. Feels excellent, have had a quick play with Mushi Futari 1.5/Deathsmiles and it took me 20 mins to get used to using the stick. Now I cannot imagine using anything else!

Beat my rather modest high scores on both games with it already



Not done the artwork for the Back and Guide buttons yet

[emphatic]

Finished wiring up my Xbox 360/PC arcade stick last night.

I used a Seimitsu LS-32-01 with Seimitsu buttons. Feels excellent, have had a quick play with Mushi Futari 1.5/Deathsmiles and it took me 20 mins to get used to using the stick. Now I cannot imagine using anything else!

Beat my rather modest high scores on both games with it already

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5030/559 ... e36675.jpg

Not done the artwork for the Back and Guide buttons yet

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5189/559 ... 9f2de4.jpg

That is a great looking stick. I love how space itself get's most of the artwork rather than putting too much stuff on it. Love the button as well!

[goji]

Here are my custom sticks :

Mushihime Sama Stick (previously a ps2 stick, today a supergun to play my shmups).


"Astro Stick" (ps2 and xbox360 stick).


And Hokuto No Ken Stick (for Dreamcast).


I also made superguns since I started Arcade :

[Matskat]

Here are my custom sticks :

Way to go Goji, the whole "supergun inside a joystick" is something I've always wanted to do, but never got around to.

Great work.

Curious....the Mushi PS2 stick...you say it's a supergun as well? cam you show more pictures?
That case is a pretty tight fit, wondering how you fit all the components in there....

[goji]

Thanks.

The Mushi one was for the ps2 before, today it's a supergun only. The wip is still in progress, but I have one picture :



I'm trying to put the power supply in the case, but as you say it's really tight fit. All other components (cables, connectors, printed circuit for sound) fit very well in the case.

[syn13]

My sticks so far:

I love Yoko from Gurren Lagann so much that I done all I could including replacing the Xbox symbol in the guide button:

HRAP EX Mushihimesama Futari stick that I just recently acquired from Vyxx:

Got a plexi-glass for it as well as changed it out for Seimitsu buttons from the EX-SE, it's too bad the spring is pretty loose on the LS-32, I've been spoiled by the LS-56!!!

[grobda]

amazing work on some of these sticks

i just converted the shell of a madcatz stick i picked up really cheap, it had already been stripped down but there was a lot of glue left on the CP. I cleaned it up and laminated some raiden artwork to put on the front. Fitted a suzo 500 stick. Its for my jamma test rig so I used the guts of a tired megadrive power stick. the megadrive stick had 3 buttons plus start, a slider for autofire speed and toggle buttons with LEDs for the autofire on each switch. I stuck an LED in button 1 toggle which you can see in the photo but couldn't be bothered with the other two as its only button 1 I need autofire on. the speed slider is on the back. im pretty chuffed with it, not made me any better but at least now i cant blame the stick



pales in comparison to some of the pro work here but im pretty chuffed with it for a 1st attempt

[emphatic]

Wow, you actually made the SUZO 500 look OK with the original ball-shaft. Kudos.

[chempop]

As always these custom sticks you guys are posting are just so damn sweet, I'm finally going to be trying to mod some of my own soon. Here are some of my plans, any introductory advice would be awesome!

Madcatz SE X360 - getting an unpopulated one of these with a snazzy diamond plate face, can be seen here
http://www.neo-geo.com/forums/showthread.php?t=223644
Thinking I'll go with full Sanwa because I already own a HRAP EX-SE. I'd like to stick with capcom colors, thinking yellow balltop and buttons might be the way to go...(?). I'll be doing this mod first because it's basically just screws and plugs to deal with.

Next is doing something about my Mayflash which I use for Mame. The stock stick and buttons are so damn atrocious, can't help but wonder how I managed a Bakraid and Batrider 1CC using the damn thing. Anyway, I'd love to get some real parts in this thing and there seems to be some good videos on YouTube to use as reference... But here's the problem - taking it apart today I discovered that the balltop is totally glued on, it wouldn't budge, even when using a screwdriver from the inside... Should I just saw through the shaft with a metal hand saw??!

DC Agetech - finally got one lf these from a member this past Fall, but the stick "sticks" and the buttons are wobbly... I'm not pleased when using it, maybe my EX-SE has spoiled me or maybe I should just get some real parts in it. Looks like hand files, utility knife, and soldering is required.

[edit] so it turns out the mayflash ball-top doesn't unscrew. I eventually decided to just take the whole stick apart from the inside which was rather fun. Afterwords I watched a tutorial on YouTube and the guy mentions thy is indeed the way to do it. After taking re entire thing apart piece by piece I decided to reassemble it just to familiarize myself with the process, now to see if it still works! LOL

That's all for now, any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated, thanks!

[mesh control]

DC Agetech - finally got one lf these from a member this past Fall, but the stick "sticks" and the buttons are wobbly... I'm not pleased when using it, maybe my EX-SE has spoiled me or maybe I should just get some real parts in it. Looks like hand files, utility knife, and soldering is required.

I found modding my Agetec stick pretty easy. There's a couple of tutorials on youtube and there's no soldering required either, you do need to do a bit of grinding and drilling.

I was un-impressed with my full Sanwa mod so I ended up pulling the guts out and slapping them inside my EX-SE.

[StarCreator]

I actually did manage to unscrew the Mayflash balltop, but it took an inordinate amount of effort and I pretty much destroyed the shaft to do it (after stripping the screwdriver head I ended up using pliers to keep the shaft steady and left some pretty deep scrapes in it). Funny enough, I never did anything else with the Mayflash case afterward - the LS-32/PS-14 parts I bought for it ended up being dropped into a MadCatz SE instead, the whole process taking less time than removing that balltop.

Out of curiosity, why don't you use the MadCatz or EX-SE with MAME?

[chempop]

I started destroying a screw driver trying to unscrew the mayflash and gave up after a while. My outdated MacMame setup is on a first gen G5 iMac which basically only gets used to watch movies and play Mame on (in Tate!). That computer isn't online and it didn't recognize the EX-SE. I have a much newer iMac that has MameOsX, but no shmups really properly and I am not about to Tate it (plus it's not located in the gaming room).

Sadly the deal for the Madcatz fell through so it's looking like the Agetec or Mayflash will be my first experience modding.

[JUTMAN22]

This was a spare left over case from my MKII cases (hence the screws - as opposed to the now standard screw-less design on my MKIII's).

Artwork is based on the awesome Progear! Seimitsu KN14 buttons with Seimitsu LS-32 stick. Rear buttons Sanwa OBSF-24's. Solid hard maple case, 3mm steel top panel, 3mm top plexi glass panel, 6mm leatherette underside panel. Datel/Paewang PCB for PS3/360/PC compatibility, hope y'all likey!!!

[Drachenherz]

This was a spare left over case from my MKII cases (hence the screws - as opposed to the now standard screw-less design on my MKIII's).

Artwork is based on the awesome Progear! Seimitsu KN14 buttons with Seimitsu LS-32 stick. Rear buttons Sanwa OBSF-24's. Solid hard maple case, 3mm steel top panel, 3mm top plexi glass panel, 6mm leatherette underside panel. Datel/Paewang PCB for PS3/360/PC compatibility, hope y'all likey!!!

It is so beautiful! Thanks for sharing, I always like to see the work of others, especially if it's so well done!

[autumndrone]

Removed the goofy artwork and painted the top metal plate matte black.

Joystick: Seimitsu LS-32
Buttons: Seimitsu PS-14-G-N
Sixaxis + Axisdapter PCB

*Bluetooth

[xavierjesus]

Tribute to a shooter I have an unnatural love for...



Bored in work - took 15 minutes out to knock up the Agetec CP template artwork above - if anybody wants it, it's here:

http://i917.photobucket.com/albums/ad14 ... -CLOVE.jpg

(300ppi .jpg @ actual size)

@JUTMAN22 - That Progear stick really works hombre! Been putting in some Progear time here via Mame actually, ahead of the Akai Katana release.

[emphatic]

VERY nice stick, xavierjesus.

[Matskat]

Nice work everyone - javier, that Crimzon Clover Agetec looks boss!

FYI if anyone is interested I'm selling\trading off half of my joystick collection:
http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=36404

There's some other stuff too...check it out.

[xavierjesus]

Thanks Matskat & Emph - (Emphatic, by the way if I didn't mention it before, that Guwange stick really is the dogs bollocks!)

Now, for anybody trying to download that artwork, Photobucket appears to have compressed it to some retarded size. If y'all really want it, PM me. Ciao.

[1up]

anyone in EU making joystick cases?

[emphatic]

anyone in EU making joystick cases?

You asked @ AO where I gave you lots of links. Maybe you forgot it?

[1up]

anyone in EU making joystick cases?

You asked @ AO where I gave you lots of links. Maybe you forgot it?

will look up that post on OA again. Thanks for the reminder