The Sanwa buttons, stick and octagonal gate arrived this morning. I swapped them out — it wasn’t too bad (though actually, getting the connections off of the buttons was more difficult than I was expecting O_O).
Everything feels a lot more solid! @"kory"#p120056 was the inspiration for this upgrade, and I definitely agree with less deadzone / wiggle on the JLX-TP-8YT. The OBSFS buttons are a lot quieter as well — a little spongy, but I don't mind for my purposes.
On Saturday, I went deep into a rabbit hole of newly discovered shmup / fight stick subcultures that I never knew existed — I really liked the customization and creativity. I saw the very edges of nuance in discussions around preference and peaced out pretty quickly to avoid getting too in the weeds.
However.. I did learn a little bit more, and just for experimentation's sake… I ordered a wider actuator and stronger tension spring to cut down on travel and mitigate the return time on the stick — though my biggest issue of misregistering inputs on the return to neutral of the original stick seems to be resolved already.
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