Finally finished my arcade stick!

[Godot102]

So about a year ago, I posted about how I was looking to purchase an arcade stick. After doing loads of research on it and trying to figure out which one to get, I decided on picking up a madcatz SE stick and modding it. Now fast forward months later, my suitemate surprised me and actually bought me a WWE brawlstick for Christmas. A few months later, and me messing with Gimp to create designs, I finally decided on one. After saving up some extra money and figuring out which buttons to get along with finding the time to actually do it, I was finally ready to print out my design, buy the parts and assemble the stick.

Here is my very first Seimitsu modded arcade stick:

Before:


After:


Mushihimesama Futari controls SO well with it


Well now that I have a stick I can use, its time to play some SHMUPS and possibly participate in the SHMUP of the month club .

[chupon]

Looks great! What all parts did you install? What gate did you pick? Are you going to be playing fighters too?

[d123456]

An amazing work of art. One of the sickest sticks I've seen in a long time.
The graphic in the buttons. wow.

[fvgazi]

Wow! Looks amazing. I love the blue theme.

[Godot102]

Looks great! What all parts did you install? What gate did you pick? Are you going to be playing fighters too?

I used Seimitsu PS 14 KN buttons and an LS 32-01 stick with a blue LB-39 balltop. The buttons are fairly easy to install but the stick was a little tricky as it needed to be semi-disassembled before installing it. You have to put one half of the stick in, then rotate it screw it in, then screw in the other half of the stick. I may try to play some fighting games, I just have not found one yet to really get into, any recommendations ?

An amazing work of art. One of the sickest sticks I've seen in a long time.
The graphic in the buttons. wow.

Thanks . It came out even nicer than I thought. Getting the artwork in the buttons is surprisingly simple but does take some time and patience to pull off.

[CRTGAMER]

The stick is beautiful, hopefully you took pics as you progressed thru the mod. I mean you really have a nice piece of work, but why not go into detail of what you had to do for this custom mod. Maybe post a full fledged guide in you OP? Any extra wiring involved, parts needed with links and a detail on how the custom art was applied.

[Godot102]

Unfortunately, I have not taken too many pictures of me actually taking it apart. I considered tweeting it as I modded it but that never happened :p. If any of you guys plan on doing this in the future and need help, I am more than happy to give you advice with it or even make a guide. I may make another one in the future for and put Sanwa parts in it. If I do, Ill be sure to take pictures as I build it. If I do one for the Wii, I probably won't change the artwork as I actually like The art on the Tatsunoko Stick. If you guys want though, I have no problem unscrewing the bottom of the stick and showing you guys the insides and what each part is/does.

[Weekend_Warrior]

That looks really nice, man! Excellent work