Fightstick button options - Which arcade buttons should you pick?

Here's a quick snapshot of common buttons for fightsticks. They all have a slightly different feel (even ones with the same microswitches). If you're overhauling your arcade cabinet or fightstick, these are some options!

0:00 - Intro
1:00 - Sanwa
1:25 - Hori
1:48 - Seimitsu
2:07 - Sunmulon
2:30 - Gamer Finger
2:54 - Paradise Arcade assemblies
3:20 - Qanba Gravity
3:42 - Crown 202
4:04 - Crown 202 w/ Cherry blue switches
4:13 - JA
4:27 - iL
4:52 - button inserts
5:05 - Outro

[Dude_Seriously]

Your button obsession makes me feel more like a normal person lol

[TheRobD]

"My favourite buttons are probably Seimitsu or Cown 202's."

100%. This guy buttons.

[voraminfantes]

Thanks for this video. As a big fan of Seimitsu, I was a little disappointed when I tried Qanba Gravities at the AS booth at EVO. I like the click and smack of a button and the gravities just minimize it so much. Hearing the 202s here, I think that's probably the route I want to go for trying mechanical switch buttons, cause at least in this video they sounded great.

[kpowren]

Fantastic Video... also to add, anyone who wants gamerfingers but can't get them, the Qanba Gravity KS buttons have a similar feel and are usually readily available. They suffer the same color limitations as the Gamerfingers though.

[zakutenakazumiya]

I have lived and died playing on Hayabusas for a good amount of my FGC stint since getting my own fightstick, but now I rock Gamerfingers with some stiffer linear switches, and they're perfect and with the nearly endless amount of compatible MX style switches, the sky's the limit.

I'm still amazed that there is a button even more expensive than GFs 😅

[Hangishta]

This makes me realize that arcade stick customizers and custom keyboard enthusiast are the same people.

[RedRanger]

The Hori buttons were usually salvaged from the Hori fightsticks....

[DestroyedArkana]

I love the mx browns on my keyboard so I think I'll get some Crown ones with those, thanks for the video!

[qwertyzorovague]

I've been looking into different buttons, and it's interesting the amount of choices you can have. I might be looking into the qanba gravity and this video may have sold me on this choice! it's a good video I'd recommend to anyone looking into getting buttons for their arcade stick

[DrunkDudley]

Sanwas, Gamerfingers with blue MX switches and Crown 202 with blue MX switches are my favorites.

[AvnerRosenstein-ULTRA-LXV]

This is a great video and the amount of buttons you have is impressive! I prefer iL/Happ concave with Cherry switches. I do not like Convex or LED Convex because they're usually too slippery.

[marzbar]

Yikes, I don't feel so bad now. I'm a bit obsessed with my fightsticks parts too.

[christopherbeauchamp]

This list does seem pretty exhaustive, at least when it comes to the buttons people should even consider. The only buttons I can personally think of that you didn't mention are: ENTH - KRM30s, optical buttons e.g. Wico Perfect 360s that are currently near impossible to find and Omni Arcade 0720s of which only test versions were released. I am very curious about those JA buttons, as those are the only ones I'm not familiar with.
-Great Video

[johnlund]

Very informative and helpful video. I really enjoy these kinds of brrakdowns, I have a bunch of gravity buttons that used to be my favorite but as of today a few of them have housings that have come out when it press them multiple times.

Really something I can't have so I was forced to change all of them.

Something to think about when your buying gravity buttons unfortunately 😕

[mb]

I started with Sanwa, got a premade afs all button controller with seimitsu, changed the directions to crown202 which feel many times better compared to the other two mentioned. For me, Seimitsu are way too hard to press for directions, they are kinda cool for action buttons, though. Sanwa were okay all in all but the crown202 (silver) for directions feel amazing!! Maybe I'll try them with blue cherry switches or even some other ones. Gamerfinger are very hard to come by here, how do you compare them to the crown202?

[lestervillanueva]

So this is where focusattacks stock went

[akkico]

you should lube your mech switches. it gonna be more quite and more smooth.

aside from that great video. since i just started to get into fighting games, i want my own fight stick. i already build one myself using one of those cheap diy kit and i want to upgrade it one at a time so this video is actually helpful to me.

[Kordanor]

Looking for replacement buttons for a joystick and I am now going through videos about buttons, but I don't find anyone actually covering what I am looking for. Is there any difference between how the buttons work, actuation and release points and travelling time? I mean you mentioned that the travelling time is a bit longer on one of them, but there got to be more differences. I mean there are tons of different mechanical keyboard switches which all have different characteristics, which are completely independent of the "color of the key". Like what is their activation zone, is their release point different than the activation point, how close is the activation point at the point you reach when you "push through" and so on.

[TonyDrecaps]

At the beginning you mentioned preferring screw in over snap ins. What are the reasons ? Do snap ins break too easily?
What the pros & cons of each? I'm looking at gamer fingers.
I have the victrix fs 12 so I can do either I would imagine.

[Xenodyne]

The clicky-ness of the Sunmulon button is EXACTLY what I'm looking for. Unfortunately it seems nearly impossible to get ahold of in the USA? At least the US distributor for Sunmulon doesn't seem to distribute them anymore as far as I could tell. Maybe I'm missing something. :(