The Gamester may have died, but its memory still lives on in this Neo-Geo stick... :3 (Awesome hack job courtesy of my buddy DanAdamKOF.)
Ah ! you kept the whole card alive.. Good work ! Have you seen how it is so annoying to cut such a shape ?
Yep that's my stick! I used two cards glued together. The metal plate on the bottom of the Neo-Geo controller's joystick is about the same size as a credit card, so it's a very good fit. It wasn't very annoying to me. I used a Dremel with a burr bit to cut the rough shape of the diamond then used hand files to shape it more precisely, it took about an hour. I stabbed my thumb when getting a bit enthusiastic with a file that has a sharp end on it... I always say a project isn't a project until I've put my flesh, blood, and tears into it! It's a work in progress: I need to widen the diamond a little bit, clean and re-lubricate the joystick, replace the buttons with Seimitsu 24mm buttons, replace the rubber feet on the bottom, possibly add weights to it, and install an opto-isolator as a hack to make the PCB common ground. As it is right now though, it works really well for playing TGM2+ on my laptop between classes, and I can't wait to improve it to work even better. edit 10/25: Widened the restrictor, and thoroughly cleaned and lubed the joystick, now the stick is MUCH more responsive.
The fact that you've been intelligent and used tools extending past just a sharp knife is probably why you found it easier.
