As I said last week - the artwork for my stick had arrived, I took a few pictures of the process of changing it over!
This was my second time opening my arcade stick up since getting it for Christmas. The first time was just to remap the buttons, which was a simple wire swap inside, whereas this time I completely stripped it apart.
Opened it up, disconnected all the buttons, after writing down what colour wires went to what button, and the stick. Then had the joy of taking the buttons out of the top plate - soemthing that was a lot harder than I was expecting! But eventually they popped out, and the stick was simple enough - though I really should've taken note of which way round it was.
Then once I had the top plate by itself I peeled off the old art and gave it a bit of a wash in hot soapy water to get rid of the remaining glue.
I hadn't thought about needing anything to stick the new art down, so hoped for the best an lined it and the plexiglass up with the plate and popped the buttons back in to pin them both in place. eventually figured out which way round the stick went back on, then popped the new dust washer on to the stick before screwing the ball top in place.
Thanks to writing down the button and wire colour combinations beforehand rewiring the insides of the stick was very quick, throw a few screws back in and my stick was back toghether and ready for testing!
Testing went very well, everything worked perfectly and my first few test games online came out at a 100% win rate (unfortunately that didn't last later on in the day...)
Opened it up, disconnected all the buttons, after writing down what colour wires went to what button, and the stick. Then had the joy of taking the buttons out of the top plate - soemthing that was a lot harder than I was expecting! But eventually they popped out, and the stick was simple enough - though I really should've taken note of which way round it was.
Then once I had the top plate by itself I peeled off the old art and gave it a bit of a wash in hot soapy water to get rid of the remaining glue.
I hadn't thought about needing anything to stick the new art down, so hoped for the best an lined it and the plexiglass up with the plate and popped the buttons back in to pin them both in place. eventually figured out which way round the stick went back on, then popped the new dust washer on to the stick before screwing the ball top in place.
Thanks to writing down the button and wire colour combinations beforehand rewiring the insides of the stick was very quick, throw a few screws back in and my stick was back toghether and ready for testing!
Testing went very well, everything worked perfectly and my first few test games online came out at a 100% win rate (unfortunately that didn't last later on in the day...)