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Well I've just finished this new mod -
I had to do this, after playing PSO online on my Dreamcast constantly for the last few nights my thumb is red raw -(an I'm a Steelfixer by trade - out of work at minute though )

Anyway here's acouple of pictures:

http://img810.imageshack.us/img810/8079 ... 103759.jpg

http://img815.imageshack.us/img815/8831 ... 103756.jpg

Well happy with this!! Feels lovely to use and looks like it came like it!

(you can't quite see on the pics but the little nipple parts on the joystick line up as they should too!)

Wow! So that's what they look like! Man, that is just too sick! I will embed the pictures so people can see them without having to click the links.

Very cool, how hard was that to do? ive got a couple of broken 360 and dreamcast controllers might have to make myself a Frankenstein

I think you should start selling these! drunken ghost is going to make me one, so I don't need you to do one for me anymore, but after seeing this I know others will want one!

it's not too hard as long as you know what your doing!

I'd be happy to sell them for a small price if anyone wanted one!

I'll be doing this too most of my controllers as it really does change the feeling completely!!

Cool. From the pictures it looks like the dome part of the thumbstick is still the DC one. Did you use the whole 360 thumbstick or somehow cut it and use just the top half?

drunkn ghost wrote:Cool. From the pictures it looks like the dome part of the thumbstick is still the DC one. Did you use the whole 360 thumbstick or somehow cut it and use just the top half?

Yeah I spent abit of time making a 'whole' xbox stick fit - and it did - however it just didnt feel 100%

(hard to explain but I think as it's not quite 100% fit it didnt operate quite as smoothly)

I permanatly fixed the 360 thumb part to the stalk of the original - it now looks good and feels 100%

My first one didn't feel quite as smooth as a normal DC thumbstick but after going back and working on it some more I got all 3 of mine to feel perfectly smooth.

Did you use the thick middle section of the 360 one or the skinny DC one? At first I thought the thicker middle section on the 360 thumbstick might reduce your movement range. I trimmed down a controller housing so it can no longer hit the edge and tested it against two other controllers and I couldn't tell any noticeable difference.

I always like to see different ways of doing things, it helps everyone come up with new ideas. Either way you go it is nice. I won't ever use a normal DC thumbstick again.

Well, I made a thread showing off your controller mod, and many people have replied already.

http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopi ... =1&t=22355

ah nice one - I was going to post it on a few various forums!

Also I'm currently in the middle of making Xbox 360 button faces - onto a Dreamcast controller.

Watch this space!