Rhythm Tengoku Panel

[nnap]

I always wanted a Rhythm Tengoku Panel for my Naomi Universal Cab. After seeing skate's Panel, I reached out to Alberto.
He said that he already had a panel that would fit the original Sanwa buttons, just in smaller sizes to fit the available space. After a Rakuten -> Buyee journey I had the buttons in hand and Alberto sent me a panel.
As always the quality of the panel is fantastic and the buttons were a perfect fit. Alberto also sent me the stickers that go into the buttons.

After a lot of crimping I had the buttons wired up. Two connectors for P1/P2 and a third custom one for the lights.

The panel is a perfect fit and works great.

To make the lights work I had to switch the I/O in my NUC from a type 1 to a type 3.

Buttons used are:

2 x OBSAX-C30UM (Start Button)
4 x OBSAX-C45UM (A/B Buttons)
8 x OBSAX-C30UK (Directional Buttons)

bought from the Sanwa Denshi Store on Rakuten via Buyee:
https://buyee.jp/rakuten/shopping/store/top/sanwadenshi

thanks a lot to Alberto for the fantastic work on his panels!

 

[jermz1]

Beautiful

 

[djsheep]

Amazing work. We’re the buttons costly?

 

[nnap]

the buttons are quite expensive but I was able to buy them without the LEDs. That brought the price down by about 7 USD per button which is a lot. Then I just installed normal 5V LEDs. The sockets in the buttons can handle up to 30V.

 

[skate323k137]

Great work! The illumination wiring is totally worth the IO upgrade, it's so nice how the game instructions light up the buttons to show you how to play each minigame.

 

[nnap]

thanks skate, your post really triggered this build. I am waiting for some RGB stripes to put them near the speakers and wire them up on the I/O. Should be fun.

 

[nem]

Nice job on the harness!

 

[fuzzbuddy]

I'd love to have something similar for an Egret 2 Great job!

 

[nnap]

I'd love to have something similar for an Egret 2 Great job!

reach out to Alberto, he can adjust the cutouts in the panel for other buttons. Maybe he can work something out for the Egret 2.

 

[nnap]

updated the first post with reference numbers for the buttons.