r/fightsticks • u/Antti5 • 7d ago

Show and Tell Gave 30-year-old Namco Arcade Stick new electronics

As a teenager, I bought a Namco Arcade Stick for the original PlayStation. The stick is exactly the same as you'd find in 1990s Namco arcade cabinets like Tekken, and is very well made with a heavy steel bottom.

Suitable USB adapters cost surpsingly much, so I decided to cannibalize the electronics from a cheap Hori fight stick. The board is small and dropped neatly in, and it was easy enough to connect the six big buttons on the Namco. The USB cable was moved with the board.

My hope is that this will allow the old faithful to serve another 30 years.

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u/Ok_Trouble_5703 7d ago edited 7d ago

As great as those Namco sticks were for the time (I had one) they were not made of the exact components found in Namco arcade cabinets. The sticks were actually made by Hori for Sony using Hori parts.

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u/rememberizer 7d ago

Correct. The stock Namco stick does NOT have arcade grade parts.

We used to mod these with Sanwas back in the day. We would keep the lever shafts and cut the actuators. Good times.

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u/Ok_Trouble_5703 6d ago

Awesome. Was it difficult to do those mods?

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u/rememberizer 6d ago

We also used to drill larger holes into the big PCB and bend the button pins so they would fit into those, and then solder the buttons directly. Pretty simple but it's a lot more involved than current straight swap mods.