Official Astro City Joystick/Button Replacement

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Official Astro City Joystick/Button Replacement

Post by k1ngarth3r »

Sorry if this is a duplicate thread...

I want to replace both sticks and buttons in my Astro City with the original Green and Pink colours but not sure what to order.

I've seen a few on eBay that look similar in colour but don't want to order anything until I know I'm ordering the correct ones :-)

Also my cab only has 4 buttons per player, if I wanted to wire up an extra 2 per player would this be easy to do?

Sorry for all the noOB questions :-(
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Re: Official Astro City Joystick/Button Replacement

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The stock buttons are green & pink OSBF-30:
http://www.gremlinsolutions.co.uk/produ ... uttons.htm"

...yellow OSBF-24 for the start buttons:
http://www.gremlinsolutions.co.uk/products/OBSF-24.htm"

...balltops are green and pink LB-35:
http://www.gremlinsolutions.co.uk/produ ... andles.htm"

...and Andy has extra button looms here:
http://www.tms-designs.com/theshed/defa ... ockid=1471"
Connect one end to the socket under the CP and the quick disconnects to the corresponding buttons.

Hope that's helpful :D
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That's awesome, just what I needed cheers mate! :D
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One final thing, I was looking at the actual sticks and there pretty rusty and maybe not as good as they should be.

Which sticks should I replace them with?

http://www.gremlinsolutions.co.uk/order ... sticks.php
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A lot will depend onwhat mounts you have on your cp. It will either be sanwa or seimitsu plate.
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I'll check that out and let you know.
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Just managed to have a look today (Only just got the cabinet in my games room/office today.

I can't tell which one it is so took a picture

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Can anyone tell from that which stick I need?
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Looks like a Seimitsu LS-32.

http://www.gremlinsolutions.co.uk/products/LS-32.htm"

Don't get the LS-32-01 or 02 as they have different connectors.
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That's great :D

Thank you 8-)
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Just ordered :D

Seimitsu LS-32 Joystick
Item number: LS-32
Item price: £16.50
colour: pink
Quantity: 1

Seimitsu LS-32 Joystick
Item number: LS-32
Item price: £16.50
colour: green
Quantity: 1

Sanwa Pushbuttons OBSF-30 Snap In
Item number: SANWAOBSF-30
Item price: £1.70
colour: green
Quantity: 6

Sanwa Pushbuttons OBSF-30 Snap In
Item number: SANWAOBSF-30
Item price: £1.70
colour: pink
Quantity: 6

Sanwa Pushbuttons OBSF-24
Item number: OBSF-24
Item price: £1.60
colour: Yellow
Quantity: 2

600-6227-10 [Extra Button Loom for Astro/Blast and Naomi]
Option: Astro-Blast City Wiring

£100 later! Bloody hell these things add up!
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Pink and green is t3h s**t :geek:

Great info on the sticks and buttons. Will save for ref :thumbup:
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You're going to be happy, remember to make left side (P1) green and right side (P2) Pink. ;)
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You should be pairing Seimitsu buttons with those LS-32s. Just my opinion, but sanwa are quite ****.
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NASguy wrote:You should be pairing Seimitsu buttons with those LS-32s. Just my opinion, but sanwa are quite ****.
I was going to post the same exact thing, then I decided to let someone else be the dick ;)
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Re: Official Astro City Joystick/Button Replacement

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For what it's worth the original Sega panel comes with Sanwa sticks & buttons. Your panel will likely be a licenced panel by Seimitsu, hence the mounting plate for an LS-32.

It's not a crime to mix Seimitsu sticks with Sanwa buttons and vice versa I reckon! It's a matter of personal preference really. See how you get on with these and swap them out later if they don't agree with you. I myself prefer Sanwa buttons but get on just fine with Seimitsus too, although the next man you ask might disagree.

I can send you a couple of Seimitsu screw-ins (I don't have any snap-ins at the mo) if you'd like to compare?
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crunchywasp wrote:For what it's worth the original Sega panel comes with Sanwa sticks & buttons. Your panel will likely be a licenced panel by Seimitsu, hence the mounting plate for an LS-32.

It's not a crime to mix Seimitsu sticks with Sanwa buttons and vice versa I reckon! It's a matter of personal preference really. See how you get on with these and swap them out later if they don't agree with you. I myself prefer Sanwa buttons but get on just fine with Seimitsus too, although the next man you ask might disagree.

I can send you a couple of Seimitsu screw-ins (I don't have any snap-ins at the mo) if you'd like to compare?
Thanks.

What's actually different between the two? Is it Cosmetic, the connection or just the feel?
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You're welcome :)

Both are connected with the same size quick disconnects so there's no difference as far as that's concerned. There's some cosmetic difference - Seimitsus are a little less convex/more flat, especially the snap-ins which, from memory, are a little flatter even than the screw-ins. I guess there's a slight difference in feel because of this too. Where the screw-ins are concerned the nuts are different but the same diameter and thread pitch so you can use Sanwa nuts on Seimitsu buttons and vice versa.

The main difference is the feel. Sanwas are a good deal more sensitive than Seimitsus and you feel very little resistance when you press them - you don't have to press them far for the switch to activate. I'm guessing just from feel alone that the activation distance, for want of a better phrase, is slightly greater with Seimitsus.

I don't know all the precise data with regards to activation distance, pressure etc - that's just getting silly imo - but the best way is to try them and see which ones you prefer :)

Did your panel come with Seimitsu or Sanwa buttons?
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Sounds like I'd probably preferr the ones I've ordered ;)

I'm not sure which buttons I have, will check later this morning. One thing I've noticed with the buttons that are currently installed are they aren't very responsive but I'm not sure if that's because of wear and tear or not.
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The buttons that came with your cab have probably been beaten to within an inch of their lives!
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I can believe that, there seems to be a mixture of buttons to be honest but the ones labelled are Sanwa.

Here's the control panel

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Here's the buttons

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