I mentioned and linked to a tut in one of fatal rose's threads a few days ago about this.
Tutorial HERE
I did the octagon gate and bat top mod to the vf5 stick today. and oh man what a difference. it feels great now. More like what I remember on the street fighter cabs I played on as a kid. still a little "sloppy" but much better as far as DP and fireball motions go. 10 bucks worth of parts and the stick feels completely different. I'm still planning on building a custom stick down the road but in the mean time the ex2 will fill the bill nicely.
as a side note: these sticks work in windows too. Instructions HERE
works great in Mame. so for a little over 60 bucks you can have a nice stick that pulls double duty on 360 and windows.
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QUOTE (garageink @ Feb 14 2008, 11:50 PM) 
I mentioned and linked to a tut in one of fatal rose's threads a few days ago about this.
Tutorial HERE
I did the octagon gate and bat top mod to the vf5 stick today. and oh man what a difference. it feels great now. More like what I remember on the street fighter cabs I played on as a kid. still a little "sloppy" but much better as far as DP and fireball motions go. 10 bucks worth of parts and the stick feels completely different. I'm still planning on building a custom stick down the road but in the mean time the ex2 will fill the bill nicely.
as a side note: these sticks work in windows too. Instructions HERE
works great in Mame. so for a little over 60 bucks you can have a nice stick that pulls double duty on 360 and windows.
Tutorial HERE
I did the octagon gate and bat top mod to the vf5 stick today. and oh man what a difference. it feels great now. More like what I remember on the street fighter cabs I played on as a kid. still a little "sloppy" but much better as far as DP and fireball motions go. 10 bucks worth of parts and the stick feels completely different. I'm still planning on building a custom stick down the road but in the mean time the ex2 will fill the bill nicely.
as a side note: these sticks work in windows too. Instructions HERE
works great in Mame. so for a little over 60 bucks you can have a nice stick that pulls double duty on 360 and windows.
Would you mind modding one of my arcade sticks for me if I provided the parts and the funds?
all it is is 4 screws bro. you can do it. just barrow a drill to drill out the holes on the gate. I used a dremmel. it took a total of 15 minutes. swapping teh buttons is a pain. I didn't do it. just order the octigonal gate from http://www.lizardlickamusements.com/pages/joysticks.shtml
the part you want is Sanwa GT-Y Octagonal Restrictor Plate 5 bucks.
if you want a bat top get the Sanwa LB-30-N Joystick Bat Top and a Sanwa joystick adapter. total for the 3 parts shipped is a little over 15 bucks.
remove the bottom. remove the old restrictor off the joystick, drill 4 holes in the new plate and re-screw it down. I even read some dude just superglued the thing on no drilling. lol.
the part you want is Sanwa GT-Y Octagonal Restrictor Plate 5 bucks.
if you want a bat top get the Sanwa LB-30-N Joystick Bat Top and a Sanwa joystick adapter. total for the 3 parts shipped is a little over 15 bucks.
remove the bottom. remove the old restrictor off the joystick, drill 4 holes in the new plate and re-screw it down. I even read some dude just superglued the thing on no drilling. lol.
a year later and I have the itch to mod this stick some more. SO I ordered 6 Sanwa buttons and 4 Sanwa microswitches today. the plan is to reorder the button layout to a more normal layout. most likely the new SFIV layout. once I get the parts I'll post results and maybe some pics.
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