The Pincade News and Update Blog – Latest Product and Community News for the Home Arcade / Virtual Pinball / Retro Gaming Hobbyist Scene.
Sanwa is releasing it’s new JLX-TPML-8YT-SK this month.
Featuring adjustable throw leaf switches – you can tune the up, down, left and right actuation points individually. There are 5 levels of adjustment for each direction.
This stick will replace the current JLF-TPRG-8BYT-SK as Sanwa’s silent stick going forward.
ETA is later this month, November 2023 and the cost will be approximately $60 AUD without a balltop.
Brook are back at Pincade!
Our last shipment of UFB Fusion boards sold out relatively quickly and since then Brook have released their FGC converter for Playstation 5 so it was great to see the Fedex delivery person this morning carrying a box to us.
Let’s see how long this stock lasts!
Brook’s FGC is their latest product that allows you to use your existing fight stick or deck with the Playstation 5.
Brook’s Wingman XB2 is their next generation Xbox adapter.
Brook’s Fusion is their newest low latency encoder board. Super versatile.
Hi there from the crew at Pincade.
We’re hoping your year is going well! We’re two thirds the way through 2023 and this has been a good year for gaming – we’ve seen new releases in the fighting game genre including Street Fighter 6 with more to look forward to including Tekken 8 and Mortal Kombat 1.
Tournament turnout this year has been strong, EVO 2023 wrapped up only a couple of weeks back in Las Vegas and EVO Japan earlier this year was very popular.
On the hardware front Brook released their new Fusion board which is really cool – it’s an update on their successful Universal Fighting Board and offers a great solution to connect the buttons in your deck or control panel up to a PC, a Switch, a PS4 or an XBox. Also Sanwa just released an update on their ever popular JLF joystick, the JLX. Featuring a new cast plastic body with increased stiffness and tighter tolerances this stick is a worthy successor and will be a great choice for those that prefer a stick.
Here at Pincade we’re not slacking off, we have a few new products in stock to showcase today.
Seimitsu’s LB-49 ball tops are a larger 45mm diameter ball that you can screw on to your JLF, JLX or LS joystick if you’re after a slightly larger grip.
In a wide range of colours these tops are translucent and are filled with bubbles.
We’ve stocked KDiT’s bi-colour balltops for a while now but we’ve finally brought in their similar battops.
Featuring a two toned colour scheme these tops are gorgeous, translucent and a real eye catcher.
Sanwa’s JLX is the evolution of the JLF joystick. With a new body cast from a stronger and more precise plastic, a new pivot bearing and a JLF-P-W white actuator which is about a half millimeter bigger than the one fitted to the JLF this joystick should feel tight and precise in your hand.
Have a browse in the store and take a look at all the new products we’ve added recently. There’s more coming soon including Brook’s FGC adapter for PS5 and we’ll be restocking Fusion boards as well.
As always if there’s anything you’re after please give us a yell, we’re trying to be your favorite place to shop parts for your arcade machine, deck, hitbox or control panel.
SANWA will soon be releasing their JLX series joysticks, the successor to the legendary JLF series arcade levers.
SANWA has carefully reviewed the the parts list that make up their JLF series, the stability and responsiveness of the previous generation and has rolled several improvements into the JLX successor.
The SANWA JLX joystick features mounting compatibility with the JLF series and SANWA hope the JLX successor product will prove worthy of a migration away from the JLF in the future.
Component
#1 LB-35 sold separately.
#3 JLX-P-4: JLX dedicated bearing (Incompatible with JLF-P-4)
#4 JLX-P-2: M base dedicated to JLX (Incompatible with JLF-P-2)
#5 JLX-MW: Washer for JLX M base (Incompatible with JLF-MW)
#11 XTP-MA: Printed circuit board with JLX micro switches (Compatible with JLF)
JLF-P-W and GT-8X are compatible with JLF and are already on sale as custom parts for JLF.
JLX-P-2 M base material changed from nylon to POM (polyacetal resin).
It is less susceptible to environmental influences such as temperature and humidity.
By increasing the thickness of the washer for the M base, rattling of the washer during operation is reduced.
Adjusted the shape inside the M base where the bearing fits.
Less rattling of the bearing than before.
Changed bearing material from POM to nylon.
Abrasion resistance and slidability against the M base are enhanced.
The material of the micro printed circuit board is changed from paper phenol to CEM-3.
It is less likely to warp than paper phenol and has improved durability.
Uses a white actuator JLF-P-W. (The same actuator in JLF-TPRG-8BYT-SK).
It has higher dimensional stability in molding than the conventional black actuator and reduces variations in input accuracy.
In addition, it is about 0.12mm thicker (0.24mm in diameter) than the black actuator, but it was adopted because of its good usability by location tests and e-sports gamers.
Combinations of the same materials have poor slidability and wear rapidly.
JLF bearings and JLX M base (POM), JLF M base and JLX bearings (Nylon) are not recommended.
Pincade will stock the new JLX series joysticks and will publish an alert on our main webpage, email subscriber list and social media channels as soon they’re available to purchase.
Sanwa put out a tweet a couple of days back as seen below:
Some disappointing news, Sanwa are increasing the price on most of their products. Typically we’re seeing around a 10% rise.
This increase is happening at the start of June 2023, however we’ll keep our price static until our next Sanwa order in July so grab your buttons and sticks now to save money!
