Build Your Own Arcade Controller - Get that real Arcade feel!
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- čas přidán 25. 07. 2024
- If you play retro computer and arcade games you need a good controller. XBox, PS4 and other modern gamepads just don't give you that authentic arcade stick feel. You need a clicky, microswitch joystick and buttons to enjoy these games in their full glory.
Building your own (well, putting the bits together!) is really easy and requires no technical knowledge. I'll show you how to assemble the parts and set up the controller.
If you want to build your own please check out these links for parts.
Amazon
UK Switch kits (mostly with encoders) - amzn.to/2POeiYl
UK Boxes - amzn.to/38mQykd
US Switch kits (mostly with encoders) - amzn.to/3layWgV
US Boxes - amzn.to/3burnOP
eBay
Switch kits (mostly with encoders) - ebay.us/YYk7O8
Boxes - ebay.us/BU6mwD
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bytesnbits.co.uk/arcade-joystick
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If you use an emulator front end, such as Retroarch, you can map the buttons any way you want. That will help avoid the hassle of matching it up to a specific controller!
Hi. Thanks for the tip.
With these DIY arcade controller kits the case is pretty good, but the buttons, stick and PCB are all a bit too cheap. If you're willing to spend more money, I'd suggest getting a Brook Universal Fighting Board and Sanwa screw-in buttons and stick. These will get you the best feeling controls and the PCB will allow you to connect your controller to many different consoles and to choose DInput or XInput on PC.
Thanks for the tips. I did notice my joystick starting to not re centre itself. I'll definitely have a look at the better joystick. The board is quite expensive - I try to keep the costs down on the channel - though I can see the features probably warrant that. I've got some ideas for a diy controller board using a microcontroller so look out for that one.
If you know do the kits come with the needed screws or do you need your own? because i just bought one and wasnt sure
Hi. I think most come with all the screws for the box and joystick, at least mine did. The buttons are just push fit.
@@BytesNBits oh cool thanks so much 😊
Hello Bytes N Bits. Thank you for your videos, i am following you for some time. I want to ask you. I want to MAKE AN ACTUAL COPY OF AN OLD ZX JOYSTICK, I like to work making wood carving i will make the parts from wood and i want to ask you, do you know about the old circuit of the old joysticks, i do not know where to find electronic datasheet or a photo of an old joystick, to copy the components and make a new one. I enter to this video with THIS IDEA. RE-MAKE AN OLD JOYSTICK from scratch.
Again, thank you for your videos.
Hi, I had a quick look and found this
www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27paw4/yr05/yr05_72.htm
Scroll down for the joystick pin outs. All you need are switches that connect the common signal wire to the various direction and fire signals.
@@BytesNBits thank you for the FAST replaying, i will see how i can make this. IS a fact. There are no videos of the inside of the zx joysticks in youtube (i see only 1, and is not too good in quality of the video i mean), for see the inside.
This must help, i will check it.
I was thinking in make from 0 (cero) the switchs and the stick, and make 2 versions, 1 in full wood and another like arcade - old atari 2600 version.
Again. Thank you for your help.
@@germanskena6537 Hi. The inside of the sticks will just be a small circuit board to connect the switches to the cable. You'll need a compatible connector with cable, a joystick switch with four direction switches and then some fire buttons. For each switch the circuit is simply from the connector pin (check the diagram for which is which) to one side of a switch, from the other side of the switch to the common pin on the connector.
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Hi. Thanks for spotting that. All updated now.
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