Mate, your legend you have helped me so much aye but a quick one which would you prefer over the 2?

Thank you for this video and the PDF diagrams on your website. Awesome resources.

I'm interested in seeing if these are viable for a DIY music device

22:10 I'm gonna call my wife The Nut Wrench... she also says my nuts are big, ugly, and gross... but she'll still crank on them 👍

I used plywood for my cabinet, because MDF and particleboard turn to oatmeal if they are exposed to moisture. Furniture-grade plywood will not delaminate over time as described in this video, except under extreme conditions that would totally destroy paritcleboard or MDF. Plywood is also nowhere near as heavy as the other two. It's still heavy enough to stay put, but not so heavy that you can't move it if you need to. I moved house a couple of years ago, and was able to get my arcade machine down the stairs from the second floor all by myself. No way I could have done that if it had been made of MDF or particleboard.

still have no clue what im doing

I have a question what brand is spring loaded?

There is no PCB . PCB does not explain a mechanism of a switch a PCB inside the button does nothing and would do nothing. It would been more apt to compare sanwa switches to "switches somewhat like mechanical keyboards" - It would not been entirely correct either but it is in same ball park away from microswitch actuated buttons. What is ACTUALLY inside Sanwa style switch for their buttons is two contacts, a ball bearing and a spring. When pressed the ball bearing goes down a plastic ledge against two contact points. The spring ... more or less according to scholars; SOMEHOW also keeps the ball bearing UP until pressed again, this is because of a notch in the plunger that keeps the ball bearing with the slightly horn shaped spring in right neutral position when not pressed. But no button, NO BUTTON "has just a PCB" inside, PCB is where you attach switches to not what a switch mechanism comprises for. Even a magnetically activated button would have a mechanism of magnets or such and not "a PCB inside". TL;DR: Japanese buttons, as far as I know both Seimitsu and Sanwa have: Two internal contacts (same ones you see outside actually), a ball bearing, a spring, and clever stuff with housing. They are actually rather easy to take apart, clean up and thus "refurbish" rather than replace entirely every time. The mechanism is clever, simple and gives a feel of a "gaming keyboard" for lack of better comparison, they are rather linear and react fast to inputs. Japanese rhythm games actually have more american like setup with microswitches. VERY similar to 20 dollar sanwa buttonws without a switch. And goes without saying: if you are building a japanese style cabinet you will use japanese parts. Japan uses these sanwa and seimitsu parts in their cabinets and since Japan still has an arcade market, those buttons and sticks are around in those cabinets. Both retro and new machines use them and are still in use widely in japan. And, the superiority of those parts especially for playing shmups without turbo is unparalled, you cannot two finger drum a microswitch button like a sanwa or seimitsu. Maybe if you use a 15 or 20g microswitch without a spring, maybe. But, I cannot claim your knowledge of special and less special western arcade parts is not on point. Funny enough that same stuff applies to Japanese sanwa buttons used in rhythm games and such, they are very similar just the outside shape is different and microswitch line used is Omron as it is in the Japanese sticks.

I have heard people refer to Sanwa buttons as having micro switches before. But I guess that's not technically accurate?

Which button for pinball

Question! I built a cabinet and I'm testing the buttons and sticks at the moment. I have an analog joystick and I've noticed it hits the sides of the holes in the cabinet a bit. Is there a type of cushion or cover for the hole that doesn't interfere with the 8 directional switches? Also I'm worried the mounting screws for the joystick will come off the cabinet, any advice on how to make sure it stays mounted properly? (Wood glue on the screws or something?) Thanks

I have an arcade stick, pin and I wanted to use it in a synth project

Heads up.... Ultimarc has gold leaf buttons.😅

Dude, why are you the only one covering all of this clearly? TY!!

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Goodjob

Quick question but when doing cleaning/maintenance on a iL eurojoystick does it need any lubricant like a jlf?

Just to point out, microswitch joysticks aren't analogue.

Hi Casey, I noticed that in your video you were talking about response times in contexts of games, but what would happen if I were to, say, try to use these buttons for something that's *not* a game? I know Buckethead used to have his own signature guitar where he had two Sanwa buttons in his guitar and both of them were basically momentary buttons where, because engaging it would kill the signal, he would often create a stutter effect manually by repeatedly pressing the button and thus using the button in tandem with the guitar's signal to come up with crazier-than-normal shreds on his guitar. Is the Sanwa really that helpful for something like *that*, or is it more of an old-school situation where you don't really notice the difference?

Can I connect straight to the vga from the board to monitor? Or do I still need a cga to vga converter board

What about wiring the IL Lorenzo Eurojoystick? I have a wiring harness with a JST connector for the joystick where as the IL Eurojoystick just has microswitches and no JST connector board. Do I just cut off the JST connector?

IL buttons are not identical to Happ, IL buttons have a shorter travel

Can we add more games on the 4s?

How would I emulate a mouse click on a USB cord?

Do you have a pandoras box 2 to sell me?

It's annoying.I have one, you can't save your games.And I do not know how to program the buttons for the fighting games

Good afternoon I’m trying to hook up my jamma bored onto a arcade one up it won’t come off the test mode. I switched the four dip switch and S1 does not work which is strange because I can take it off the button touch it to the negative and it works but it doesn’t work with the micro switch I changed out the micro switch, any ideas?

Interesting video. I do have a strong preference to western buttons mostly because I like the concave plunger, but I also respect Japanese buttons. Recently they released concave plungers for Sanwa buttons; replace the microswitch with a switch from Seimitsu along with the concave plungers and you get the best of both worlds. I had to admit I can't say I'm too big a fan of cherry switches on buttons, a little too tense if you ask me. Groovygamegear used to sell microleaf switches that were fantastic but sadly they seem to be discontinued.

So an IL/Happ lever wouldn’t be good for competition? It’s really that much slower than the Japanese digital levers? I had it in my mind that I’d try to recreate an American style fight stick.

Hi, does it work without the little IDE PCB BOARD Setup?.thx

Thanks, really helped me out with wiring.

Thank you for sharing your know-how with all of us.

for the generic blue micro switch since its my only option for arcade buttons where do i attach the black wire is it below or is it the one thats in the middle?

Do you have a idea why my pandora 12s. Wont work. It got frozen. On the welcome screen. Already check the sd card. ?

OK... Question for you. I want to build a Atari Assault cabinet and game. The original game came with Flight/Zaxxon/Tron style joysticks that have a trigger and housing on the stick itself. Is there a way to retrofit a new joystick to work with the original housings and trigger? The Assault housing are available online but i don't know how to put the two together...

Sweet! Very detailed thanks

Has anyone here had any experience with non-round buttons? I know Sanwa Denshi make square and triangular ones and I'm curious to know how they fare, as I'm thinking of putting them into my next fightstick as main buttons.

Never listen to someone who confuses Japanese and Chinese when talking about technology

12V is brighter is only the case for incandescent bulbs. LED bulbs usually use the same LED dies but paired with larger ballast resistors not to burnout the LED. Diode voltage range from 1.4V to 3.6V depending on colour and mix. They may produce super bright diodes but they will consume more power with more power/heat dissipation. 12V LEDs are more for convenience in setup

I know this video is a bit older , but I was just curious. Do you all sell the Pandoras Box on your website ? I couldn’t find it. I think I have a clone at the moment. But I may want to get a real one sometime in the future. Thank you kindly. (Oh never mind. I see you guys have discontinued these. :( do you know where I could still get an authentic real one that’s built into the shell? Thanks

can you do a video on the marquee ? I purchased same unit

I'm curious what type of microswitches are in gold leaf buttons? I tried to do some research on gold leaf buttons but couldn't discover any info about that specific button that was a solid answer.

Cavalon game is wrong game can you just change the rom to match the game it should be Or swap the rom and rename it to the wrong game to get cavalon to work . If that makes sense

don't buy the course , there is some information, a lot of useless stuff , doesn't give you the pdf and after all that even the plan is for 1/2 cabinet, nobody cares about those, your paying to do the real thing, its ok to do the training with the smaller one but give the real stuff after. And there is no measurements on the plan. Don't pay 40$ for that. there is tones of videos showing you how to do 1/2 cabinets and small cabinets.

Elon

I don't know how pause the game😭😭😭

I thought you had a video about trackball and spinners, did you take it down?

Elon musk look alike ! Great job on the video

Nice video!!!! ty!