Which Button is Best for Arcade1Up's Big Blue? How to - NO Drilling, Soldering, Splicing!

Today we are modding our Arcade1Up Street Fighter II Champion Edition Big Blue Arcade Machine to replace the DIY Retro Arcade buttons with some Sanwa style buttons! Let's see if these Sanwa style buttons are better than the ILs!

If you are looking for a massive, affordable upgrade to your deck (Sanwa sticks and high quality buttons) WITHOUT drilling, soldering, or splicing, this video is for you!

Is Big Blue worth buying? Watch and find out!

[travissouders]

Love it man. Keep the great content coming. I use .50 gram cherry switch’s with suzo happ convex buttons. Love them.

[MikeOfAllTrades]

Doing the work so I don't have to. I appreciate this style of content. Keep it up!

[stepsgaming]

Sanwa buttons will go into the Arcade1up without drilling.. take a small piece ripped up of cardboard box and put it over top on sanwa button… then wiggle the button down and it will go in fairly easy. I’ve take those sanwa buttons out of my MVC and then put in Happ Competition Convex buttons and they have been in there fine not loose no problem. In my Big Blue, I had the DIY retro buttons and I did end up switching the microswitches for cherry and I still couldn’t use them. The reason is I can’t do Concave buttons because my fingers are smaller and they hurt really bad when playing. I am now using translucent authentic IL convex buttons. This makes me so much happier and yes with cherry micros.

[Serial_Thrilla]

I love these type of vids, good stuff! All this button swapping can get confusing, I’m curious, did you ever try just upgrading your micro switches instead of the entire button? True IL buttons with Cherry micro switches seems to be a great combo!

[techvof]

Late to the party but go to groovy game gear and get leaf switches

[androidc]

i miss the old madcatz fight sticks w/ japanese button spacing. do any Sanwas fit these things? it would be nice to just use some buttons that i trust.
what a pain to work on & so limited to what fits. ill probly pass on these & wait for pro series cabinets

[jeffwu]

man I love your reviews, you actually caught that red button takes longer to mash or get the moves out... and I noticed that too when I bought it from DIY arcade. I need something like stock but a little clicking feel... would that white one u recommended one do it for me?

[splby]

My stock joystick is starting to squeak and the stock buttons are becoming impossible to “counter throw” against tick players.

[snipesmcfreely]

Where’d you get the buttons that you ended up liking the most? What name/ diameter?

[KnockTsuKow]

what is the brand of the white buttons you prefer (bowlian or how u spell it?) and where can I buy those or link?
I bought the america style 28mm from DIY arcade and you're 100% way to much efforts to hit those buttons and micro switch too long, I am afraid the IL might be like that so I didn't go with that yet... TY.

[KnockTsuKow]

the sanwa buttons everyone loves it, but I don't like the look of it and seems too flat for my taste. I prefer the concave style and ordered some from DIY Retro but was disappointed cuz it took too long to fire or do honda handclap (like u said), so now I am considering the IL buttons... would that be the same experience?

What is the best concave buttons I can buy that require very much no efforts to get the moves out?

Also what is he best premium fight stick I should upgrade with for SF BLUE?

[FeralInferno]

Nice man. What type of button would you recommend if I just wanted to replace my buttons and just plug them in without messing with any of the wires or anything else like drilling, soldering, etc...?

[volta]

My question is… is there ANY way to do a mod for scan lines on the Big Blue?? I just bought one and the graphics are awful, flat and pixelated, ugh… and for $600 we get no scan lines or shading options. I’m so disappointed. Any outside upgrades we can do for this?

[Superdimensional]

“IL style” is not IL, spring weight and plastic tolerance all matter, as well as that cheap ass micro switch you were using. (IL need Cherry) Don’t call a Knock off IL, they’re not the same, it will confuse people.