Making an official DC Arcade stick octagonal

Post by **baphomet_irl** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 8:04 pm

Hi, I recently got an official DC Agetec arcade stick, and I noticed that the stick is in a square gate (i dont know what the proper word is)

this is fine for shmups, but it does make fireballs fairly difficult, and dragon punches nigh on impossible...

I was just wondering, how big a deal, and is it even possible to make the stick have an octagonal gate?

any help is much appreaciated

Post by **Liam** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 9:55 am

You'd probably have to change the entire stick for a real arcade stick by Sanwa. Then you can take the square gate from the Sanwa stick and replace it with an octagonal one.

Like in this modification:
http://www.tychom.org/stick/

Post by **baphomet_irl** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 7:26 pm

hmm - according to the ebayer i bought it off it has a sanwa stick in it - ive always been too scared to open it to see though lol

it definitely has some form of 3rd party buttons and stick as my stick is purple and my buttons pink

i believe default is all green

Post by **Liam** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 5:19 pm

That's great then, if the stick is a Sanwa JLF-TP-8Y. Ask the seller maybe to make sure that's what you've got. Just buy the Sanwa GT-Y you see when you scroll down this page:
Sanwa GT-Y

You can open up the stick by taking the base off and I think it's just a matter of removing screws to change the restrictor.

Post by **baphomet_irl** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 6:36 pm

i see cool

i was looking at one of the JAMMA sellers pages and i was hoping maybe it was a J-Stick - they have some cool thing where you just flick a swtich and a diamond of wire moves in and makes it octagonal - I'll have a look inside the stick someday when I get the guts

do you think the octagonal makes a massive difference for dragon punches?

Im kinda getting used to the square now and I like the kinda 'locked in' of the diagonals in shmups

in general (I havent been in an arcade in years) were the SF cabinets octagonal sticked or square?

thanks for your help

BaphomeT

Post by **baphomet_irl** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 6:37 pm

oh yeh btw i sent an e-mail to the seller about 2 weeks ago askin about how to change to octagonal etc.

no reply :s

Post by **Liam** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 7:02 am

You will get used to the square restrictor. And it is good for shoot em ups.

I need to modify my DC sticks with Sanwa parts too. I just can't get round to ordering the different things I need from the various shops. I'm in Ireland too, as it happens.

Edit: The old Street Fighter 2 arcade sticks would have been something like this:
http://www.arcadeshop.de/product_info.p ... cts_id=422

Post by **baphomet_irl** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 4:28 pm

Cool

btw - does anyone here still chip Dreamcasts or Saturns?

cos Im thinking of buying a JAP Dreamcast, but tbh Im running out of SCART connections, plus my wife wouldnt be too impressed with double DC and Saturns lol

yeh I think maybe I will get used to the square gate, cos actually I was jus playin SFA 3 on my PS2 with the Soul Calibur 2 Joystick (which is octagonal), and I was actually finding it harder to do fireballs and dragon punches

thanks for the info

Post by **turkey** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 6:49 am

if you wanted to "chip" the dc with an actual chip so you can play import originals without a bootdisk then its only 4 wires and pretty easy to do if i remember correctly. I did this on my jap dc with problems. The hardest part was soldering the wire to the actual chip as it was not mounted on a board. The dc boots backups out of the box as long it is not last of the line units.

To do the saturn is not to difficult, check http://seb.riot.org/saturnmod/ for the ultimate in modifications.

Ive not installed this one as i dont have a chip programmer but intent to do this asap. It will only boot import originals tho, you will need to install the modchip available from Racketboy if you wish to use backups.

Post by **Liam** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 11:08 am

baphomet_irl wrote:Cool

btw - does anyone here still chip Dreamcasts or Saturns?

cos Im thinking of buying a JAP Dreamcast, but tbh Im running out of SCART connections, plus my wife wouldnt be too impressed with double DC and Saturns lol

A boot disc for DC should play all the imports you need. The Xploder by Blaze or the DC-X (also by Blaze I think) should do. Most games even boot at 60Hz apart from a few - mostly the Neo-Geo conversions.

For the Saturn you need switches added. I did that with mine but it was tricky. I think any other console would have been destroyed if it took the punishment I gave the Saturn doing that modification.