Custom Ikaruga arcade stick

monoRAIL · Post by **monoRAIL** » Mon Nov 10, 2008 1:56 pm

I customized my Hori DOA4 arcade stick. It's now a sweet Ikaruga stick, although I left the 6-button setup for Street Fighter 4 next year

More photos and full build instructions here: http://cokane.com/hori_ikaruga.html

Shelcoof · Post by **Shelcoof** » Mon Nov 10, 2008 3:09 pm

Sexy...

what did you use to make the mod? Artwork looks really good on there

edit: nvm checked out the link good stuff

jpj · Post by **jpj** » Mon Nov 10, 2008 6:13 pm

nice

TLB · Post by **TLB** » Mon Nov 10, 2008 9:22 pm

Smecksy, to be certain.

Octopod · Post by **Octopod** » Mon Nov 10, 2008 10:45 pm

Looks very nice.

ZOM · Post by **ZOM** » Mon Nov 10, 2008 11:56 pm

Nice&Clean - Beautiful

tommyb · Post by **tommyb** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 12:34 am

I really like that, I think I may just make my own ^_^

TodayIsForgotten · Post by **TodayIsForgotten** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 1:11 am

Thats pretty slick. Would have been kinda neat (maybe) if the stick was half black and half white. Top row of buttons white bottom black.

professor ganson · Post by **professor ganson** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 1:30 am

Looks much nicer than the pale green one that I have. Nice work.

PPA · Post by **PPA** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 12:54 pm

way fuckin better!

electricgrave · Post by **electricgrave** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 3:32 pm

A thing of beauty!

antares · Post by **antares** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 7:41 pm

Nice!

This is mine

(Sanwa Stick / Seimitsu Buttons)

monoRAIL · Post by **monoRAIL** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 1:13 am

Yay another shmup stick! That looks great antares. I assume you used snap-in buttons? I used screw-ins which meant I had to attach them to the top plate before screwing the top plate onto the plastic case, which means you can't put the artwork on top of the screws

I think it's worth it though as the screw in buttons are really heavy and have a nice feel to them.

bcass · Post by **bcass** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 4:17 am

Is this regarded as the best stick you can get for the 360? Does it have sanwa parts as standard? Would love to replicate that mod, it looks great.

antares · Post by **antares** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 8:43 am

monoRAIL wrote:Yay another shmup stick! That looks great antares. I assume you used snap-in buttons? I used screw-ins which meant I had to attach them to the top plate before screwing the top plate onto the plastic case, which means you can't put the artwork on top of the screws

I think it's worth it though as the screw in buttons are really heavy and have a nice feel to them.

Yep, snap-ins.
I had to grind the buttonholes a bit, otherwise the Seimitsu buttons wouldn't have fitted as they are a bit bigger. So they are now very tight, no problem at all.

bcass wrote:Is this regarded as the best stick you can get for the 360? Does it have sanwa parts as standard? Would love to replicate that mod, it looks great.

The Hori stick and the buttons are of a poor quality in comparison to Sanwa / Seimitsu parts.
To mod the thing is a lot more difficult than the HORAP for example. To change the buttons is simple but changing the stick is really a pain in the ass, it took me several hours to get it all done.

EDIT: The best stick you can get for the 360 will be this:

http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-br- ... -2uev.html

or this:

http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-dd- ... -2sxk.html

Both a little heavier on your credit card of course

Shelcoof · Post by **Shelcoof** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 9:33 am

Wow both sticks really look amazing.

Ikaruga sticks looks awesome, I just love that black and white contrast.

electricgrave · Post by **electricgrave** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 12:00 pm

antares wrote:Nice!

This is mine

(Sanwa Stick / Seimitsu Buttons)

Another beauty. What was used for the art, in sopecific if you would please. I would like to know what was printed on and who printed it for you. I've been wanting to do some stuff for a while but been holding back 'cause I'm not sure what material to use for the art and how can I stick it permanently.

Thanks!

antares · Post by **antares** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 2:06 pm

electricgrave wrote: Another beauty. What was used for the art, in sopecific if you would please. I would like to know what was printed on and who printed it for you. I've been wanting to do some stuff for a while but been holding back 'cause I'm not sure what material to use for the art and how can I stick it permanently.

Thanks!

The picture is from the Thunder Force V CD (Saturn).
I just rescaled it in Photoshop and then went to my local Copy Shop (I don't know if these shops exists in the US or what they are called there). They have a paper there which is self-adhesive on one side. After it was printed I gave an adhesive foil over the picture for protection. That's it.

bcass · Post by **bcass** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 6:36 pm

antares wrote:EDIT: The best stick you can get for the 360 will be this:

http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-br- ... -2uev.html

or this:

http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-dd- ... -2sxk.html

Both a little heavier on your credit card of course

Does that Hori-EX stick have all-Sanwa parts?

antares · Post by **antares** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 6:35 pm

bcass wrote:Does that Hori-EX stick have all-Sanwa parts?

afaik yes.

croikle · Post by **croikle** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 7:11 pm

afaik no.

Sanwa stick, Hori buttons. It's pretty easy to swap the buttons for some nicer ones if you want to, though.

ChurchOfSolipsism · Post by **ChurchOfSolipsism** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 10:09 pm

Looks pretty swell mate.