I don't really wire stuff, so am having a shitty time. I've got some sanwa arcade buttons. Wondering what sized crimps and wire I should use... damn wires keep falling out.
If you're able to get your hands on a cheap soldering iron, I'd recommend just soldering the wires into some quick disconnects and just sliding those onto the tabs on the microswitches. Unless of course Sanwa buttons use something totally different than the microswitches in Happ buttons, in which case nevermind. Did you pick the buttons up here somewhere, or when you were still in Japan? I'm wanting to throw together a stick over the summer, but would like to do so with Sanwa parts this time, and that Himura place's prices seem pretty ridiculous.
I've bought them in Japan, and Himura. Himura's prices (last I checked several months ago) were extremely competitive -- cheaper than Mak Japan. I frightening piece of reality, no? I sw one mod... this one: http://www.arcadestickmonk.com/asm-namco-sanwa-mod.html No crimps. Just solders (?) them directly.
There's no real reason why you COULDN'T solder the wires directly to the button terminals - my RealArcade stick came like that before I switched the buttons out. Having the wires soldered to the quick disconnects will save you time later if you ever need to swap a switch in case it breaks or something. So Himura actually has decent prices, huh? Guess I'll have to order from them if I want Sanwa parts. I was hoping everything being twice as expensive as Happ was just price gouging.
I went out and bought Dremel to "shave" down the button holes. Damn, that shit stinks! Anyone know if the Dreamcast Arcade Stick's metal plate has any lead in it.
I figured it was SF3, my suspicions were confirmed watching the video, but... "Oh snap"?! Proof that the Internet, not videogames or TV, is making our culture collectively more stupid. :-( There are some irritating textual mannerisms - 'wtf', 'lol', etc. - that at least have a logical explanation. And then there are these strange bastardizations of the language that you'd think have to come from Babelfish gone wrong, except someone intentionally started using them and now they've spread through the internet like some sort of virus. But anyways, that parrying job on the video was amazing. I've really got to get me a copy of SF3 at some point.
