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No one heard the doorbell from UPS when I was at work, so still no joysticks. :( I also partially broke my mp3 player, thus today is not going as well as planned. On the bright side, I should successfully pull off sleeping.
In any case, that means the sticks should get finished tomorrow so I'll have some pics up then. They'll probably need a lot of breaking in as the buttons are pretty damn hard. No combos for me yet.
These buttons will work fine right?
Can't wait to start building my stick. What are you housing the buttons in Mech?
EDIT: Fixed.
You linked to a stick, fyi.
I'm currently building the housing out of 3/4"x11 3/4"x36" (I think) boards of white laminated plywood (Home Depot, about $4.75 a piece). The dimensions of the controller are about 16" wide, 11" deep, and 4" tall. It'll take one board and some change to make a complete stick having a top and sides (I probably won't make a bottom). However, I might have some problems with the stick because of the extra board thickness, so it looks like I might have to take a dremel or some such to it to carve out the stick placement. I'm hoping I won't have to, but am planning to.
Fixed. I'm talking about the competition pushbuttons.
I would guess those buttons are just fine, but I'd imagine someone else here would know better. I got a bunch of the Ultimate pushbuttons, which are a bit tinier then I expected but still really nice.
Wow. I mean... yeah, wow. This thing feels good, damned good, hella good... I'm kinda at a loss here. I just did some GGXX testing with it, and it feels smooth as butter. I kinda can't get over how friggin' awesome it feels! No wonder people love custom jobs, it's been so long since I've felt an actual arcade stick that it's kind of sickening how nice this feels.
*awaits people who try this and then bitch about how overrated it is*
In any case, I promised pictures, and pictures I shall give. It's still unfinished but in good playing condition, tomorrow when I have access to a saw I'll make the front and back and screw them in. Whenever I decide exactly how I want to handle it I'll make a bottom, but it remains open for now.
I figured you all might like the Harp box.
man you guys have me even wanting to build my own stick hmmmmmm
id want to build something that would just have a connector and then that way i could maybe build a connector to plug into it from each different system
I'd almost say make it out of a PS controller because there are so many PS->whatever adapters on the market. Since I bought a PS->DC adapter a long time ago for DDR that means this baby can also be used for all my DC fighting games. :DQuote:
Originally posted by Shin Johnpv
id want to build something that would just have a connector and then that way i could maybe build a connector to plug into it from each different system
true good call
no PSX to 3DO adaptor though ;)
and if there is please some one sell it to me *LOL*