Here’s just a quick tutorial on how you can make the holes for your arcade buttons.
Tools required:
Masking tape To Fix the overlay in place.
1 small Round File, and 1 half round file.
Pliers to pull out old button fixings.
Sharp pointy tool to mark the holes
Step 1: Align & tape you’re arcade overlay in place.
Step 2: Using the overlay as a guide, Mark where you’re holes need to be, this will be used as a reference to how wide your holes need to be when filing.
Step 3: Using a pair of pliers pull out the fixings that were used to attach the old buttons.
Step 4: Now your ready to start filing, start by using the small round file to create a large enough hole to use the larger file. -
Just remember to take your time with this, and let the file do the work. The holes won’t come out looking perfect, but they don’t need to be as the overlay will cover this up. Remember to regularly check you’re arcade button in the whole while filing - This prevents any accidents by making the hole to big.
Continue this process until complete. You will notice fillings will accumulate on the underneath of the VCI case, I used a scraper to get rid of these.
Haven’t attached my overlay or buttons as yet, because Im doing other modifications to my VCI (Adding 2 extra faders) will upload pic’s of my complete VCI when complete.
Hopefully this will be of some use to some of you on here.
I just got myself the metal files to maybe start filing the holes, since the machineshop here in Norway charge more for making the wholes.
The 2 shops ive looked at charges 750 Norwegian Kr in the hour it’s around 140-150 dollars a hour. So this is so much cheaper.
attach overlay (after filing), then fit in the arcade buttons (still do a test fit when filing though), as the button will overlap the overlay slightly.
I need to do the holes 24mm large no? because if i fill it as big as in the overlay, it’ll be too big no? I need to care a lot if i want the buttons to be really where they are in the overlay no?
The overlay holes are designed to go around the outside of the buttons so it can easily be removed with the buttons still on the VCI. This means you need to do the holes smaller than the overlay. You can use the overlay as a guide for placement of teh buttons and just remember to not go all the way to the edge.
ok, but if I want the button to be centered in the overlay, I need to do it really very well, a nice circle which center is the center of the overlay too, no?
sorry for my english, maybe you won’t understand what i say :s
