Arcade control primer Buttons, joysticks, and encoders
This video is to help those who are working on their own arcade machine control panels, be it a full size, an arcade 1up, a bartop, or even just a controller.
I started doing an update on my 1up cabinet, and as I started I realized that there's a lot of knowledge to share around the choices of the various controls out there.....there's different brands (Seimitsu, Happ, Sanwa, Ultimarc), different styles of arcade buttons, and then the encoder setups.
If you'd like more details, I highly recommend the article tested did at: https://www.tested.com/art/makers/464...
Also, this is an excellent video about how to switch out restrictor gates (They can be a bit tricky)
• How to swap Sanwa restrictor gate inserts
In the end, it's going to be about 'feel'. But knowing the choices, how they behave differently, and how they mount hopefully will help you in your decisions.
This will be the first part in a short series I'm going to do about my arcade 1up update, and my full size arcade project.