sehs33
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All credit goes to alyinsanfran:
I just followed alyinsanfran's guidance from this topic, and this is by far the easiest mod to improve your F100 MK2 joystick response.
What's so great about this mod is:
1. You wont need to open your 2X to apply it
2. Doesn't require any extra parts that you can't find anywhere
3. It only take 10 minutes
The whole mod revolves around the joystick cap: all what you have to do is to shave a few millimeters of it and your are done! No one has any idea why it improves the joystick's response, but it sure has a noticeable effect that I believe it will allow some people who lost hope in playing specific games that require better control change their minds.
Although it is an easy mod, but am providing a step by step guide with photos to help people understand how easy it is (am not responsible for any damage that might occur to your GP2X, your fingers, any tools you might use or to your neck if the wife caught you red handed using her nail buffer the way it's not meant to be used!):
1. Take off the joystick cap: alyinsanfran's advises that you use a fork to take the cap off, all you have to do is to stick a fork under the cap (as in the image below), place your thumb over the cap, and pull the cap off. I know some might be worried that they will break something, but worry not, it wont!
The following is a photo I have taken for the cap before shaving anything off it:
2. Use some sand paper to shave the cap, I used a paper clip to measure the depth of the hole, it is around 6.5 millimeter. I didn't find any sand paper and I was so lazy to leave home to buy some, so I used a nail buffer to shave off the plastic. I had an extra joystick cap that I will use to compare the normal and modded cap:
Half way through
The cap after I finished, I shaved around 3.5 millimeters of it, you can use the paper clip again to measure the depth:
Normal cap (left) and the cap after being shaved (right):
3. Empty the hole of the plastic dust using the same paper clip and by blowing inside the hole (leave your lips 2 to 3 centimeters away from the hole)
4. Stick the cap back, no glue is required. Once you are done it will look like this (Not that much of a difference)
Done! Congratulations, easiest solution to the toughest problem. This wont make your joystick as accurate as an actual D Pad, but it will improve control noticeably!
Thanks again to alyinsanfran for this simple mod, my GP2X controls much better now
I just followed alyinsanfran's guidance from this topic, and this is by far the easiest mod to improve your F100 MK2 joystick response.
What's so great about this mod is:
1. You wont need to open your 2X to apply it
2. Doesn't require any extra parts that you can't find anywhere
3. It only take 10 minutes
The whole mod revolves around the joystick cap: all what you have to do is to shave a few millimeters of it and your are done! No one has any idea why it improves the joystick's response, but it sure has a noticeable effect that I believe it will allow some people who lost hope in playing specific games that require better control change their minds.
Although it is an easy mod, but am providing a step by step guide with photos to help people understand how easy it is (am not responsible for any damage that might occur to your GP2X, your fingers, any tools you might use or to your neck if the wife caught you red handed using her nail buffer the way it's not meant to be used!):
1. Take off the joystick cap: alyinsanfran's advises that you use a fork to take the cap off, all you have to do is to stick a fork under the cap (as in the image below), place your thumb over the cap, and pull the cap off. I know some might be worried that they will break something, but worry not, it wont!
The following is a photo I have taken for the cap before shaving anything off it:
2. Use some sand paper to shave the cap, I used a paper clip to measure the depth of the hole, it is around 6.5 millimeter. I didn't find any sand paper and I was so lazy to leave home to buy some, so I used a nail buffer to shave off the plastic. I had an extra joystick cap that I will use to compare the normal and modded cap:
Half way through
The cap after I finished, I shaved around 3.5 millimeters of it, you can use the paper clip again to measure the depth:
Normal cap (left) and the cap after being shaved (right):
3. Empty the hole of the plastic dust using the same paper clip and by blowing inside the hole (leave your lips 2 to 3 centimeters away from the hole)
4. Stick the cap back, no glue is required. Once you are done it will look like this (Not that much of a difference)
Done! Congratulations, easiest solution to the toughest problem. This wont make your joystick as accurate as an actual D Pad, but it will improve control noticeably!
Thanks again to alyinsanfran for this simple mod, my GP2X controls much better now
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