Thanks so much for watching! Yeah with the decent brains inside of this thing and the compact case, it would make a great travel stick or a nice option for someone with smaller hands.
Yeah, aside needing to absolutely destroy the original (and worthless) stick you'd probably get away with some scanline city level mods - seems like the joystick is five pin connected and buttons have common ground connectors too so you could connect/solder new parts in, just keep using the original top buttons for home, start, select etc.
Leaf switch (apparently) is just two metal connectors that are forced to press each other by some force, essentially silent. These on other hand are microswitches, just different size and form factor - probably cheaper, less durable less servicable. I found out somewhat recently that most "full sized" microswitches that are USUALLY used in arcade sticks and some buttons (Beatmania buttons) Can be opened by prying "lid" side of the switch so you can clean it with contact cleaner or whatever if you feel like it is needed - I feel like switches for crown levers need this as it was a recent thing I did to a well used lever.
The bases for the buttons seem to ruin all chances of modding any real arcade parts into this box. This reminds me... There are DIY arcade controller cases available on AliExpress, mostly sold by a store called TruBoost. They even do custom requests if you send them messages. I was able to buy two flipped cases from them and now I have a fightstick with the stick on the right and a Hitbox with the motions on the right. Their Hitbox case doesn't come with holes for Start, Back, Home etc. buttons in the top panel, so I had to drill my own holes on the side panels. I also wanted to have a detachable cable, so I drilled in holes and added my own NEUTRIK USB passthrough. I used a Brook Universal Fighting board for the PCB. I'd love it if you could have a look at any of those cases available at AliExpress or on e-bay and give your thoughts and recommendations to people looking to make DIY controllers with premium parts.
Thanks for watching and sharing your experiences! I definitely want to eventually start diving into other options out there for DIY controllers and projects like that. I've always found it funny that people would buy a retail stick and replace literally everything about it, because then essentially you're just buying a case. But that's half the fun of the experience I guess!
I think leaf switches are typically switches where the button directly closes two metal contacts, rather than contacting a microswitch which is then bridging the connection. I think.
@@MakeYourOwnFun That style of microswitch probably has a name, I just don't know what it is. Several Seimitsu levers use this same style of switch, because the microswitch doesn't align perfectly with the actuator like it does in a Sanwa or Hayabusa. I only know the other style of leaf switch because I started modding a virtual pinball table, and those switches seem perfect for the flippers.
Ah interesting, thanks for the info! Yeah I would see the logic behind using this style of switch but adding something in between the actuator and the switch doesn't seem ideal because it increases the points of failure. Probably not a big issue in practice though.
I just found this video after buying this stick,is cheap and weak but for the price,is fun enough to play games like metal slug or beat em ups,nice video!
Awesome video mate. It's great to see your teardowns and how you try as tou go along. One of the very few channels doing that, subscribed!! It'd be great to see a follow up about a mod of this stick. Wondering how one could put a standard josytick in there. I guess it'd need a new controller board too?
Thanks for watching! In terms of modding the sticks for this and the Street Fighter 2 plug and play, I think you theoretically could replace the entire joystick assembly. The balltop doesn't screw off however so you would need to saw the joystick shaft in half and just remove it that way. If you then wanted to mount a Sanwa JLF or similar then you probably would need to drill some new mounting holes and it wouldn't be a neat job at all I think. If you're familiar with basic arcade stick wiring then you can definitely use the existing board here because it's just the 4 connection points and a ground just like most other sticks. I think this could make a neat project to start off with but I wouldn't put that much time and effort into it to create a long-lasting stick as it's got a lot of limitations.
Hey, I bought the Switch version of this stick and I really like the design but mine is really really hard / stiff. Was yours the same? Wondering if it's normal and all of them are like this or mine behaves strange being so hard...
Hmm, well the joystick wasn’t that stiff. It doesn’t have a really strong spring in it at all. The buttons definitely are stiff because of the way that they activate with membranes instead of switches. Maybe you can swap the spring out?
@@MakeYourOwnFun Difficult to know if it might be normal without much to compare against. I might wait until the warranty is over and see if I get used to it until then. I really like the small size compared to the massive standard ones!
@@michaels-h5539 Yeah that's interesting. It's definitely a nice case and PCB to work with but the parts are a bit all over the place in terms of quality.
This video begs for a part 2 sequel where you mod the panel with something better... I hope you find a way to remove the joystick or cut it off... looking forward to the next one. Thank you!
This stick is not working I connected it usb to Nintendo switch using the dock. It says it’s paired but the stick and buttons do noting. Is there any advice to get this working like you were able too?? What USB hub are you using to connect it to you Nintendo Switch? 😕
This has a lot of diy potential, cheap enough to not care if you broke it. Great video
Thanks so much for watching! Yeah with the decent brains inside of this thing and the compact case, it would make a great travel stick or a nice option for someone with smaller hands.
Yeah, aside needing to absolutely destroy the original (and worthless) stick you'd probably get away with some scanline city level mods - seems like the joystick is five pin connected and buttons have common ground connectors too so you could connect/solder new parts in, just keep using the original top buttons for home, start, select etc.
Leaf switch (apparently) is just two metal connectors that are forced to press each other by some force, essentially silent. These on other hand are microswitches, just different size and form factor - probably cheaper, less durable less servicable. I found out somewhat recently that most "full sized" microswitches that are USUALLY used in arcade sticks and some buttons (Beatmania buttons) Can be opened by prying "lid" side of the switch so you can clean it with contact cleaner or whatever if you feel like it is needed - I feel like switches for crown levers need this as it was a recent thing I did to a well used lever.
The bases for the buttons seem to ruin all chances of modding any real arcade parts into this box.
This reminds me... There are DIY arcade controller cases available on AliExpress, mostly sold by a store called TruBoost. They even do custom requests if you send them messages. I was able to buy two flipped cases from them and now I have a fightstick with the stick on the right and a Hitbox with the motions on the right. Their Hitbox case doesn't come with holes for Start, Back, Home etc. buttons in the top panel, so I had to drill my own holes on the side panels. I also wanted to have a detachable cable, so I drilled in holes and added my own NEUTRIK USB passthrough. I used a Brook Universal Fighting board for the PCB.
I'd love it if you could have a look at any of those cases available at AliExpress or on e-bay and give your thoughts and recommendations to people looking to make DIY controllers with premium parts.
Thanks for watching and sharing your experiences! I definitely want to eventually start diving into other options out there for DIY controllers and projects like that. I've always found it funny that people would buy a retail stick and replace literally everything about it, because then essentially you're just buying a case. But that's half the fun of the experience I guess!
I think leaf switches are typically switches where the button directly closes two metal contacts, rather than contacting a microswitch which is then bridging the connection. I think.
Yeah you're right, the construction of this joystick just looked so weird and flimsy to me but I just plain got it wrong.
@@MakeYourOwnFun That style of microswitch probably has a name, I just don't know what it is. Several Seimitsu levers use this same style of switch, because the microswitch doesn't align perfectly with the actuator like it does in a Sanwa or Hayabusa. I only know the other style of leaf switch because I started modding a virtual pinball table, and those switches seem perfect for the flippers.
Ah interesting, thanks for the info! Yeah I would see the logic behind using this style of switch but adding something in between the actuator and the switch doesn't seem ideal because it increases the points of failure. Probably not a big issue in practice though.
I just found this video after buying this stick,is cheap and weak but for the price,is fun enough to play games like metal slug or beat em ups,nice video!
Thanks for watching! Yeah I’m glad this stick is so cheap, good enough for what it is.
Great video. Does it work on a PC for mame 32 aracde games?
Awesome video mate. It's great to see your teardowns and how you try as tou go along. One of the very few channels doing that, subscribed!!
It'd be great to see a follow up about a mod of this stick. Wondering how one could put a standard josytick in there. I guess it'd need a new controller board too?
Thanks for watching! In terms of modding the sticks for this and the Street Fighter 2 plug and play, I think you theoretically could replace the entire joystick assembly.
The balltop doesn't screw off however so you would need to saw the joystick shaft in half and just remove it that way.
If you then wanted to mount a Sanwa JLF or similar then you probably would need to drill some new mounting holes and it wouldn't be a neat job at all I think.
If you're familiar with basic arcade stick wiring then you can definitely use the existing board here because it's just the 4 connection points and a ground just like most other sticks.
I think this could make a neat project to start off with but I wouldn't put that much time and effort into it to create a long-lasting stick as it's got a lot of limitations.
they had circle restrictor gate to solve the sf 2 issue and for all fighitng games
Hey, I bought the Switch version of this stick and I really like the design but mine is really really hard / stiff.
Was yours the same? Wondering if it's normal and all of them are like this or mine behaves strange being so hard...
Hmm, well the joystick wasn’t that stiff. It doesn’t have a really strong spring in it at all. The buttons definitely are stiff because of the way that they activate with membranes instead of switches. Maybe you can swap the spring out?
@@MakeYourOwnFun Difficult to know if it might be normal without much to compare against. I might wait until the warranty is over and see if I get used to it until then.
I really like the small size compared to the massive standard ones!
@@michaels-h5539 Yeah that's interesting. It's definitely a nice case and PCB to work with but the parts are a bit all over the place in terms of quality.
This video begs for a part 2 sequel where you mod the panel with something better... I hope you find a way to remove the joystick or cut it off... looking forward to the next one. Thank you!
I tired Plug in it to my switch even if its on red is blinking it doesn't say Paired
Room enough inside for an RPi. It could be a complete portable system.
Can we play tekken 3 with these arcade stick ? I see there are no L2 , R2 buttons ? Is it possible?
This stick is not working I connected it usb to Nintendo switch using the dock. It says it’s paired but the stick and buttons do noting. Is there any advice to get this working like you were able too?? What USB hub are you using to connect it to you Nintendo Switch? 😕
+ - button for xinput mode for pc and ps4 nice
Shipping did not go well for that box
Haha it definitely did not! I almost feel like I must have paid for extra crushing.