I'm going to make something one day. I've got a van da graaff generator collecting dust under the stairs and a fight stick I never use so this is going to take some careful planning.
360 analogue on the left, original on the right. The DA's longer, comfier handles were shortened for the DualShock 2 to save on plastic, I believe. PS comparison.
I'm coming to the end of another stick build, this time featuring Seimitsu 24s in an ergonomic layout inspired by SEGA's Virtua Stick, with my usual Saia mini-JLF.
Why aren't you mounting on the underside of the top, B? Shoving the goods up from below seems a bit cavalier of cabling. That's the benefit of wood: underside mounting on PCB feet. And quieter buttons.
Basically, 'tis a wooden rectangular frame, with a larger, button-featuring and leather clad 'lid'. (Actually the frame has 6 button around it too, for Start/Back/Home/All That Noise.)
It's attached to a couple hinges so the lid's angle can be adjusted and indeed lifted open clear. Access to innards that way and/or via the removable base, which is what the perspex sheet'll be for, and the PCB will probably be screwed into finally on little posts.
My only slight concern at this point is, well, slightness. Could have to plonk some rocks in there to keep the whole thing transfixed By the Powa of Gravity
Ugh, this is going not so well. Box is functional, but either by positioning or the vagueries of my muscles, it's proving no easier, indeed a little trickier to get complexer maneuvers to come out, and of course 3SOE doesn't actually feature an input display toggle so I've no idea what I'm consistently fluffing.
Theory: Possibly the inputs are coming in too fast, and so overlapping when they shouldn't. Am wondering if some kind of hard micro delays can be inserted in the signal path e.g. with resistors or capacitors or something to filter the signals.
The last one I built for myself cost £900 (just the PC) and the one I built for work cost around £1,900 for everything (monitor, keyboard, etc). I'd love a couple of grand to spend on one for myself now!
Your cardinals must repent. Too late, but I think Tekken 5: DR would've sorted you an input display.
Possibly also too late, 28-mil left-hand buttons would've given you full switches or Rollies.
Seimitsu 24 switches are two-stage, and they activate just before the first. I'd personally have them over Sanwas for this. Sei skeletons have convex tops.
Engage distance can be lowered by adding whatever between the switches' white ends and the plunger undersides. Bit of a bodge, though, 'cause all you're doing is pushing things down at default.
Far as I know, Toodles' is only for eliminating simultaneous cardinals, not for any flavour of prioritising over diagonals. Which most games do natively, bear in mind.
For PIC ideas, roll on to Scenyx and ask RDC if a 12F683 or similar can be programmed for minimum signal holds. I go by Stranger there, if you want that as a PM opener.
Had at some brief mods last night. I've got a couple spare Sem 24s, but stuck with the Sannies for the time being. Basically went for the 'noiseless' plunger mod - stuffing with a couple layers of felt - to cut engage distance. I think it helped - missing less when at twitch speed (or near as my constitution is capable of twitch speed) - but I'll see if Sem's very slightly stiffer switches help further too, when a few more have pitched up from Gremlin.
Whether I do same for actual attack buttons remains to be seen. Their comparatively deeper engage now means I've less of a chance of hitting them during quick maneuvers before they're due, possibly.
Major issue is actually placement of the Left button, which I stuck a little below the Down on its left. This confounds sliding/rolling techniques quite a lot though, so will re-drill and rectify as per legit Hitboxes after all.
An extra PIC solution seems like fun, would appreciate the intro if my round of tinkering basically goes to shit.
Fucks alive though, I don't think that dreaded Flash Kick Ultra of Guile's has ever been easier to pull off. Not that this matters to me - I'll be content if I can just get those EX Tengu finishers out more than rarely.
IMHO Semitsu > Sanwa all day err'day in the button department.
I find regular sannies so twitchy that its difficult to be precise. Sometimes the merest touch is enough to engage the switches. I am frightened by your quest for moar sensitivity brooks.
You are a madman. A MADMAN. Although I always respect a man who knows what he wants, regardless of convention or convenience.
"Let me tell you, when yung Rouj had his Senna and Mansell Scalextric, Frank was the goddamn Professor X of F1."