True D-pad Modded F200 Prototype Done

[DaveC]

Just an update. I made this one out of white acrylic, the first was delrin. Getting better I think. This one handles well.

 

[kfuse]

oh man that looks slick...How does if feel overall?

 

[zaffercharles]

damn, that looks beautiful B) If only it came with one of those. How tough to fit would it be aside fron the case chopping? If these were available, and I knew what tools to use I just might have a go myself.
great job.

 

[fusion_power]

Just an update. I made this one out of white acrylic, the first was delrin. Getting better I think. This one handles well.

Looks professional, very nice. How do you make this? (Cutting everything with an Knife? ^^ ) And how stable is this kind of material?
And is a Pad made out of metal/alu a good solution to? (Everything is holded in place only with the top case of the GP2X?)

 

[saehn]

Just an update. I made this one out of white acrylic, the first was delrin. Getting better I think. This one handles well.

Very nice, Dave. Quite impressive! Now how about a semi-detailed tutorial, or at least a drawing with measurements?

 

[senquack]

This looks utterly amazing.

 

[kingbuzzo]

saturn style face. ME LIKE!

 

[kfuse]

He dave how much would you charge for people to ship f200's to you so you could mod them

 

[morrissey2k7]

Just received my f-200, the pad is really disappointing. Why is GPH not able to provide us with a proper pad? Even the psp slim dpad is really o.k., now. This is just not what I was expecting and I do not understand the positive voices on these forums. Honestly, I am not able to play street fighter II properly. Therefore, I really hope that there will be something like a "dave c/ed dpad mod service" again.

most of the videos on youtube show the dpad as being squashy instead of being sturdy like a proper pad, this is the main reason i didnt buy an f200 (because it looks like a cheap chinese pmp dpad), gph need to listen to their customers properly, i doubt a mk2 f200 will come out soon, not that id want that either...
if the battery life is lower due to the new sound amp, and the telnet/usb networking is missing (not that i could get the thing to work on my network properly) i dont see a point.


Yes the buttons could be described as "squashy" but that's a good thing. They're very comfortable under the thumb, unlike many controllers in the past which were guilty of creating blisters easily (especially if you're a fighting game fan!). The buttons are VERY responsive and learning to use the "D-Pad" to do fighting game moves is not that hard (much much much easier than the F-100's joystick!). I've been playing the CPS-2 and NeoGeo emulators for days now on my F-200 and I'm very pleased.

Although I must say the mods I've been seeing in this thread (especially the acrylic one) look very nice! B)

 

[b._.o._.b]

Yes the buttons could be described as "squashy" but that's a good thing. They're very comfortable under the thumb, unlike many controllers in the past which were guilty of creating blisters easily (especially if you're a fighting game fan!). The buttons are VERY responsive and learning to use the "D-Pad" to do fighting game moves is not that hard (much much much easier than the F-100's joystick!). I've been playing the CPS-2 and NeoGeo emulators for days now on my F-200 and I'm very pleased.

Although I must say the mods I've been seeing in this thread (especially the acrylic one) look very nice! B)

Agreed, mod is very nice but only needed for the very picky I guess

I've played IK+, speedball, q-bert all games that really need good diagonal moves and play great with the F200.

 

[Rivroner]

Davec, could you make a dpad that we can just fit over the actual F200 buttons so we have no to make a hole

Thank you

The second one of the picture looks like this i am looking for

Sorry for my horrible english