Nintendo Playchoice Joysticks

[Moon Jump]

Hey guys. I'm not very tech savvy, but this is something I always wanted to do since I lost my NES Advantage in a house fire back in 99'. I had gotten a replacement Advantage for 7 bucks and the buttons are sticky and the stick itself doesn't feel right.

I wanted to know if anybody sells the Nintendo Playchoice Joysticks. I saw one seller on eBay with two of them for 22 bucks. What I'd love to do is make a REAL joystick for my NES out of a Playchoice Joystick and good Japanese style buttons.

Does anybody have links to how to do this? I have a few old NES pads I could sacrifice to make it. I'm not sure if anybody has done this before, but as I said, I'm not handy with this stuff so I never really looked into it.

[phreak97]

generally arcade joysticks and buttons arent all that cheap. that $22 is about as good as it gets unfortunatey. there are also original playchoice buttons around ebay too, i even saw a control panel overlay if you want to tke it that far.

basically, building an arcade stick is done however you want it to be done.. usually people make a recangular wooden box with just enough space inside to give clearance to the underneath the buttons and joystick.. mounting the buttons is just how it looks, drill the right size hole and put them in, simple as that. then all you have to do is get a controller and wire the buttons to the pads that the buttons in the controller usually contact. using a third party controller is best because the official nintendo ones have grey carbon on the pads, which you cant solder to successfully, you need to scrape the green off the traces coming from them.

if you want to be really fancy, you can make it compatible with the snes quite easily too, as both consoles use the same protocol. i wont go into that unless youre interested, but it really only involves a bit of easy wiring (and you have to use a snes pad inside.. bet you didnt know snes pads were backwards compatible:P).

[Moon Jump]

I kinda knew the sticks would be more then a normal joystick, I doubt Nintendo still makes them, or another site would. I just loved how "Clicky" they felt on certain games like Vs.Super Mario Brothers and even though I LOVED the NES Advantage, I missed having the arcade perfect controls.

[phreak97]

theres no reason why you cant do it.. make it a project, dont buy everything all at once.