Joystick Prototypes

Silverline Powarcade

Jefcade Supergun

Metal GSrcade

Wooden GSrcade

Hori GSrcade

Hori VFIV

Windy GSrcade

Hori - Virtua Fighter 4 Joystick

I'll take a proper photo at a later date as this only show what it looks like before modifiction.

Designs

For a new joystick design I picked up a very poor condition Hori PlayStation 2 Virtua Fighter Joystick for 400円 (about £2.60), bargain.

I stripped it down and removed all the old buttons and the PlayStation 2 circuit board, shot blasted the metal base and top plate, both were the spray painted matt black, the top panel was covered with matt black Fablon.

The plastic shell was cleaned and new buttons fitted, as the chassis was not very tall I couldn't use my standard HAPP arcade buttons I like and have had to resort to using Hori Arcade Spec buttons I took out of the Hori Arcade Stick (Red, Green and Blue).

As my Super Gun design originally didn't have Coin Switch 1, Player 2 Start or Test Switch on the stick I have modified the machine with the new connections, the newest JAMMA loom I made had these connection but the machine and joystick did not.

Buttons

The buttons do slightly different things depending on which port they are plugged into on the Super Gun.

Player 1 (Left Port)

Triangle - Test, R1 - Coin Swtich 1, Select - Player 2 Start, Yellow Start - Player 1 Start.

Player 2 (Right Port)

Triangle - Test, R1 - Coin Swtich 2, Select - Player 1 Start, Yellow Start - Player 2 Start.

All the other buttons are not connected to anything.

Joystick - D-sub

Solder side of connector on joystick

08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01

 15 14 13 12 11 10 09

Player 1

Right hand connector, when viewed inside (solder side)

Pin #	Function	Multi-Core Cable	Internal Colour
01	Ground	Black	Black
02	Player 2 Start	Pink	Green
03	Test Switch	Yellow/Red	Gray
04	Coin Switch 1	Light Green	Orange
05	Player 1 Button 3	Blue	White
06	Player 1 Button 2	Green	White
07	Player 1 Button 1	Red	White
08	Ground	Gray	Black
09	+5 VDC	Green/Red	Red
10	Player 1 - Right	White	Yellow
11	Player 1 - Left	Purple	Yellow
12	Player 1 - Down	Yellow	Yellow
13	Player 1 - Up	Brown	Yellow
14	Player 1 Start	Orange	White
15	+5 VDC	Blue/Red	Red

The +5 VDC are not currently used on this design but could be used at a later date for illuminated buttons or an autofire circuit, as the 7 strand 0.1mm cables are not a very large gauge, two cables are used for Ground and +5 VDC each.

This joystick came out pretty good, the stick is not very stiff complaired to the original Jefcade Supergun and the only thing missing is the autofires.

 

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