Bibin
Frequent Poster
I had this old Apple 400/800k Floppy Disk Drive lying around, as a spare. During a trip to a store in Manhattan, I ran across some well-priced Sanwa arcade parts. I went home with a good square-gate joystick and six buttons, perfect for a fight stick. When I got home and saw the floppy drive, I saw a good chance to make a portable fight stick, something that I haven't seen in a long time! All the quality commercial ones are massive...
As my drill was not working properly, nor my dremel, I had the "fun" of making all the cuts in the plastic with a screwdriver and some scissors. A million blisters later, all the holes were cut, the buttons and joystick mounted, and all that was left to do was to padhack an old PSone digital pad (which works fine on PS2).
For the start button, I used the original Eject button apple put on it, as well as using the drive access LED for a power indicator on the controller. It turns out the button is digital, not mechanical like most floppies!
On the right side is a switch with 3 positions - this lets me change what the Eject button does. In the top position, it's the start button. Bottom, it's the select button. In the middle, it disables the button entirely - wouldn't want to be disqualified from a tourney for pausing in the middle of a game!
Here's a picture of it working on one of the PS2s with Street Fighter 3: Third Strike:
As my drill was not working properly, nor my dremel, I had the "fun" of making all the cuts in the plastic with a screwdriver and some scissors. A million blisters later, all the holes were cut, the buttons and joystick mounted, and all that was left to do was to padhack an old PSone digital pad (which works fine on PS2).
For the start button, I used the original Eject button apple put on it, as well as using the drive access LED for a power indicator on the controller. It turns out the button is digital, not mechanical like most floppies!
On the right side is a switch with 3 positions - this lets me change what the Eject button does. In the top position, it's the start button. Bottom, it's the select button. In the middle, it disables the button entirely - wouldn't want to be disqualified from a tourney for pausing in the middle of a game!
Here's a picture of it working on one of the PS2s with Street Fighter 3: Third Strike:
cookies!
