Joystick Adapter kickstarter

Adderall

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This is going to be VERY helpful to a lot of people.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/211853764/universal-arcade-joystick-adapter-plate

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Known stick compatibility:

Universal plate:


Sanwa JLF
Sanwa JLW (requires a small piece of plastic to be cut)
Seimitsu LS-32
Seimitsu LS-40
Seimitsu LS-56
IL Eurostick
Happ Competition
"Pink" topped joystick
Paradise LED joysticks
Fight Stick #1 and #2 at Paradisearcadeshop.com
Round House from GGG
More being tested and added!
 
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Interesting. Seems big, I have a feeling it gets in the way of at least the "light kick" button on standard candy cab panels.
 

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I just pledged to this earlier this morning. I've been looking for something like this for quite awhile to be able to stick some ls-32s in my mame cab that was originally set up for happs. I'm really hoping they ship these out with some of their Hawaiian chocolate covered macadamia nuts too!
 

Adderall

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Interesting. Seems big, I have a feeling it gets in the way of at least the "light kick" button on standard candy cab panels.

if they hit the stretch goals -

The small Japanese style plates, allow for most of the Japanese stick mounting holes but eliminate the IL/Happ holes. This allows for plates that need to fit in tight quarters.
Spoiler:

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just read this in the comments on the kickstarter:

The plate is 94 x 85 mm

I'm 95% certain that my concern was correct. Anyone with better math skills want to confirm for me?
 
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Adderall

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these 94 x 85 measurements are for the small plate stretch goal?
 

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No, the regular sized one I believe.
 

wataru330

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Even small plates need to be shaved a bit to fit on player 1 side of seimitsu screwed Aero panels.
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As good an idea as the OP has, it's just not possible to be 'universal' as things sit currently.
 

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Wow that is a disgusting mess Wataru, you should really do something about that :lolz:
 

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Heh, not my prob anymore, mang. Deported the 1pXL panel to the Golden State.

Uncle Rog, gonna whip the girl into shape, lol.
 

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Heh, not my prob anymore, mang. Deported the 1pXL panel to the Golden State.

Uncle Rog, gonna whip the girl into shape, lol.

Yeah, except I don't own an Aero (not for me), so I will let BIGTIME deal with it. :D
 

Jeneki

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Very cool. Actually I do have a couple extra LS-32s that I could put to good use with these.
 

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I was thinking about adapting a JLW plate to put JLFs in a machine at the arcade, but maybe this is easier.
 

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It looks a lot bigger than the standard one in the big red cab, which is barely over 3 inches on a side.
 

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It's true that its' hard to be truly Universal. When we posted to the forums we used "universal" a lot.
How universal should we get? Today I announced that we added holes for 2 directional Williams levers from Startgate, Defender and Joust. These sticks always go and a lower cost alternative is not available.

Here is what we will have:
The larger plate, basically almost you could imagine and the ability to rotate american sticks 90 degrees.
The X-arcade sized plate made specifically to fit in those tight routed out spots.
The small Japanese plate with Williams holes.
The Ms Pac Plate

Now, I don't know for sure, but if I asked my guys to knock extra material of one side of the Japanese plates to make them fit some custom cabinets, we can probably do this with one two suggestions in short run.

When we get past 2000 I will also be announcing S plates, Thank you everyone for your support!
 

Adderall

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2k goal reached!!

I'm excited about the JP plates... I have no need for IL/Happ compatibility :)

Now, I don't know for sure, but if I asked my guys to knock extra material of one side of the Japanese plates to make them fit some custom cabinets, we can probably do this with one two suggestions in short run.


This is awesome. Chem, take note!
 

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I increased my pledge for 4 plates now! gogo s-plates!
 

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I increased my pledge for 4 plates now! gogo s-plates!

Yeah, I did the same, it's a good cause regardless of how much I need these. I'm guessing the S-plates would be the newer shallow style, not the older deep seimitsu mounts often seen on astro panels.
 

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You guys at neo-geo have made a reputation of yourselves in the gaming community. In fact, you guys pride over it with slogans like being here for "teh DRAMA" and such.

I think of you regulars on these forums as pure low-class subhuman degenerates. I would understand if this were the year 2001, where many of you were still in high-school and college thinking of these sophomoric antics that you pull as good-natured humor. Now many of you are well in your thirties; some of you still living with parents and yet many of you are married with children. By the way, a lovely wife and cute children you have Jim (wataru330). It's a shame that they will be influenced by your lack of intellect and middle-school bullying level of conduct that I believe is the result of your trying to find some excitement in your life of sheer mediocrity through excessive geekdom and putting down others through pseudo-hierachies on message boards, as the majority of you regulars are guilty of doing.

I can somewhat understand though. After all you all are just another cog in the wheel of life working for other people's dreams, just as Jim's kids will be a part of that very cog working for people made of success like me and my dreams. I will enjoy having people like Jim's cute little children as they become adults doing my very bidding. That is how the intellectually-deficient seed is passed on and that is what separates people like me from people like you guys. Probably some tragic events will happen that will lead them to have the same mental defencies as their father before them because after all for lowly people like you guys, life is not fair. For you guys, life sucks and then you die. For people like me, life is beautiful and we carry on legacies.
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To the other person a part of the frat boy attack, the self-hating Chinese man (kidpanda), I feel a bit of pity for you. I've seen your posts degrading yourself as bad as other members. Having a tiger mother and father that shuns you for not being the ideal Asian kid that's supposed to get a 4.8 GPA and go to medical school must have been a difficult time for all in your childhood and teen years. So you take out your misery by acting like the regulars here on this forum akin to "white acceptance".

To the New England men (Chempop and ECZangief whose real names I do not know nor want to know), woe unto you. Hypocrites. Neo-Geo is like your personal playground do your best WWF Attitude era impression, yet you know to act on your best behavior in other arcade based forums. Chempop seems to have an obsession with Ziggy Stardust and fat nerdy white people sticking up their middle finger as if he were some anti-authoritarian. A guy who possesses a fetish for Sega machinery and a guy who spends his daily life trying to best his hi-score in shoot them up airplane games. This can only be a true life of loneliness. Chempop's frustration festers into something that can best be described as internet tantrums by an immature being. Meanwhile, ECZangief is just his follower like a short braid-haired African-American in a hip-hop video with no purpose. Which all makes sense, as many of you regulars of neo-geo act and type link these low-class thugs.

Speaking of followers with no purpose, Lemony Vengeance. Like many regulars, he's obsessed with the spirit of the law as to how arcades should be run even though it's dated technology. He will let you know how it should be done in an annoying way unique to only a person who thinks lemons are nice. They are sour. He wormed his way through with padhacking and posting hyperbole. However, let's face it. He's a mormon, a flawed false religion. For that, he is loved by many here out of pity. If not for Brigham Young, your people would be irrelevant. I suggest you partake another mission and find the error of your latter-ways, lad. All your arcade and Japanese pop fandom is just not a big deal in the real world.

VanillaThunder, you're a misanthrope. The truth is just that you hate yourself, but don't because I care for you like Jim's cute children. We all do. I care for the little people like you.

Horatio (arcade game), please stop acting like an illegal immigrant stereotype when Marketplace issues happen on your end. It's very disrespectful to the hard working Mexicans that came here the right way.

XianXi, you are as hopeless as kidpanda and I don't feel sorry for you in this case.

I wonder why there is hostility and drama here. Why the need for high school antics? Then I realized it must be jealousy. Even a community Shoryuken.com managed to mature somewhat. After all they have a good business deal with Capcom and a very successful fighting game tournament, if not the most in North America. While Neo-Geo.com represents the oft-failed entity and publisher, SNK. On the top of that, there is no relationship with SNK to even speak of. No one cares about SNK, not even you people and it's made you all bitter like Japanese on 2ch message boards.

You regulars say that the rest of us can't handle the hurtful incendiary comments on here and say to not take it seriously. Will you say that when one day some member snaps and actually causes an incident (like murder) that gives media outlets like Fox News the reason to complain about the degeneration of our society through video games, especially over such poor quality games like SNK games? After all, isn't this forum the den of many crooks (Josh from Huntington Beach, California), thieves (a quarter of the sellers on here), and alleged murderers/convicts (Waseem)? Heh, need I say more people?

I offer no threats. There is no need for me to "hack" your site or wish for you all to go to hell like others outside of these forums feel. You forum regulars are your own destruction and you will realize that in time.

I accept this lost battle of convincing for I can not change you all, you can only change yourself. What I can say is, can you see yourself still acting like ingrate brats on a message board into your forties? I expect the feedback from my this diatribe to be filled with many expletives and childish comments of which I am not deserving of as I have not used such things here, but to you all I say, tis' a shame.

To the few of you that read this message and manage to see the light and realize it's time to grow up and move on from the fanboy life. I say to you...

You are welcome.

To you, Happy Holidays and a very Merry Christmas. Goodnight!
 

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I've exchanged messages with the creator, I asked if the s-plates were designed to fit older school sanwa CPs or new fight sticks (since they not even remotely the same measurements). He said he'd post pics tonight, and that they tried to fit both.
I'm still doubtful the S-plates will be fully universal but we'll see.

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looks like I overlooksed the mockup design posted a while back:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/211853764/universal-arcade-joystick-adapter-plate/posts/677645

Doesn't seem to have the depth needed for old style seimitsu plates, still waiting on measurements.
 
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Got mine. Fifteen minutes later and I'm rocking Seimitsu in my MVS. :D
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:buttrock: Nice man!

I'm still waiting for my "stretch goal" plates, X2 of the small-S and standard small.
 
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