NFG @nfgworld.com · 30/09/2026Black velvet poster and a black light because I was a very weird kid. 011
NFG @nfgworld.com · 25/09/2026Way what you like about this modern world (and I do have things to say!) but it's pretty cool to spend a day inventing and produce something that didn't exist until you decided it should. I needed an AUX input for my old car, so I made one. 280
NFG @nfgworld.com · 16/09/2026Finished a small mod on my Hori Fighting Stick (2019), replacing the white Hayabusa buttons with a colourful variety of Punk Workshop V1 units, and wiring up an ASCII C4XJ optical stick to complete the silent operation theme. It feels so good to use. ^__^ 1130
NFG @nfgworld.com · 14/09/2026Hori announced their Arcade Classic Pro joystick for PC and Switch2 today. A beast of a thing with eight buttons and two swappable control panels. It comes with a stick, rotary stick (loop lever), trackball and paddle controller. 40,000円 ($260 USD). Spring 2027. 23015
NFG @nfgworld.com · 10/09/2026It's Bean again. I have a new phone and I'm testing out the cameras on it, so please expect a lot of Bean pics. 180
NFG @nfgworld.com · 10/09/2026Epic Game Store suddenly demands I verify my age to visit the store page for a racing game I purchased, can't buy DLC, but happily lets me view the prequel. No such demand for games about shooting people! I am NOT submitting my ID to the ID theft industrial complex, fuck you. 050
NFG @nfgworld.com · 07/09/2026Sure, Epic Games, I'll agree to... Whatever the fuck this is. Get your shit together. 250
NFG @nfgworld.com · 05/09/2026There's a window high above my bed, and I put a little shelf on it for my cat to sit on. She likes to get morning skritches when I wake up, so she makes sure to be on that shelf before I wake. When I stir in the morning she looks over and watches me, so this is the first thing I see most days. 080
NFG @nfgworld.com · 05/09/2026This is a great comparison of screw driving heads. I'd have ranked JIS Phillips higher based on my experiences, but the data don't lie. "Don't" is a great tier. 120
NFG @nfgworld.com · 12/08/2026Shipping another batch of prototype joystick knobs and a couple of dust washer designs to @cqbarcade.bsky.social today. Hextacle, Turbine, The Smooth One and D-Pad. 😁 291
NFG @nfgworld.com · 31/07/2026Last night I finished all the hard parts of a modern refit of a Hori's Fighting Stick SS, a slim Sega Saturn joystick. It now features all new buttons, joystick mech, etc. It was a hugely satisfying project and it all worked without any big surprises. =D 170
NFG @nfgworld.com · 27/07/2026I put together a guide to making a flip switch for CRT monitors, when the game wants to be oriented the other way but you don't feel like rotating the whole heavy beast, nor do you want to reach into the hurty electric death zone to flip the plugs. It's fairly easy, and cheap! 141
NFG @nfgworld.com · 25/07/2026I love me some Seimitsu controls, but their KEIKOU buttons (and possibly more of their PS-15 buttons, and who even knows where this ends TBH) have a manufacturing artifact that prevents smooth movement when the button is pressed off-centre. Here's the fix. 130
NFG @nfgworld.com · 24/07/2026Following up on my recent 24mm/30mm button reducer, I made a 30mm/24mm button increaser. I do not expect this to be quite as popular. Put this on your 24mm control panel and put a 30mm button in the top! It's perfect! 😜 071
NFG @nfgworld.com · 24/07/2026I wrote a review of the Haute42 Hautepad C-AS joystick. It's a work of art, with a box full of RGB lights and customizability. Which it needs, because the 26mm height requires a lot of bespoke parts you can't swap with other brands. Check it out. 021
NFG @nfgworld.com · 24/07/2026I needed to use a 24mm button, but didn't have any 24mm panels handy, so I made a 30mm reducer. It's 3D printed, snaps into place, and works great! Tested with Sanwa, Qanba, Seimitsu, Crown, and Hayabusa. Download for free, use for good or evil. 082
NFG @nfgworld.com · 23/07/2026Someone bought some of my arcade accessories, and I shipped them to their country where they've been stuck in one of their processing depots for a month. The buyer is asking for me to re-ship or refund the purchase, and I'm refusing because postal delays are out of my control. 1/ 140
NFG @nfgworld.com · 22/07/2026First draft of a 24mm button panel for a mini arcade stick. The plan is to make a modular design so I can swap out panels and parts easily. 1202
NFG @nfgworld.com · 19/07/2026I've been working on stands for my joysticks, so they can be arrayed on a shelf without taking heaps of space. They're designed to be printed easily, using very little filament. Not sure if try to sell them or just release them. Some of them took a lot of work! 2163
NFG @nfgworld.com · 14/07/2026The things you find when you're tidying up. NOS Twin Famicom pad NOS Sanwa USB pad NOS Nintendo Famicom pad Planned to put the USB pad's PCB inside one of the other two and never got around to it. 2184
NFG @nfgworld.com · 10/07/2026I've been working on a big project that has a lot of poorly documented parts, so I've been documenting! Here's some pinouts for Sega's JVS boards! 181
NFG @nfgworld.com · 20/06/2026I made a switch for doing a 180° flip on my arcade monitor. I think it looks good! I think the logic is sound! I think I really don't want to fry the chassis when I plug it in and turn it on! But that's what I'm about to do! 160
NFG @nfgworld.com · 13/06/2026I recently whipped up a guide to modifying Hori's 2019 Fighting Stick. It's a rather excellent little stick out of the box, but it also invites you tinker. 071
NFG @nfgworld.com · 10/06/2026I finally finished my guide to joystick mech wiring. If you're working on an arcade joystick, it might come in handy! 065
NFG @nfgworld.com · 10/06/2026If you have one of Hori's excellent Alpha joysticks you might want to modify it, because that's fun to do. But throwing a Seimitsu mech in there requires a mount plate that doesn't exist. So I made one! 043
NFG @nfgworld.com · 31/05/2026This notification just popped up on my PC and I do not like it. I use chrome like four times a year ( @vivaldi.com FTW ) and AI is none of the things promiosed in this screenshot. Do not want. Go away. Ew. 0102
NFG @nfgworld.com · 29/05/2026First batch of NFG Heavy Industries Arcade Knobs is about to get shipped out! Check out @cqbarcade.bsky.social soon, if you want one. They're the exclusive source in Australia, and the only one for the world so far! And, gasp! Prototypes!? 🤯 363
NFG @nfgworld.com · 18/05/2026Hello internet. I'm NFG and I'm an addict. I already have like 20 joysticks at home. 3150
NFG @nfgworld.com · 07/05/2026Using the Japanese government's e-registration site for an upcoming visit, and the captchas they threw at me are baffling. I can't solve either of these, can you? The animal one I've solved several ways, the letters one I can't figure out at all. If the goal is to discourage visitors... 😬 220
NFG @nfgworld.com · 14/04/2026I ordered a cheap class-D amp from aliexpress and installed it in my arcade cabinet, supplying it with 12V power from the existing Sega power supply. More volts would be louder, but 12V delivers a reasonable max volume for this Astro City cabinet. They're ~$12 AUD, shipped, which is insane. 040
NFG @nfgworld.com · 14/04/2026User on my forum has an X68000 computer with an unusual capacitor. It's huge, and it seems to be a factory-installed component. 281
NFG @nfgworld.com · 19/03/2026I designed a new joystick knob and came here to share the news on the same day that @retrofrog.bsky.social launched his, and I ain't the type to take the wind out of anyone else's sails. But that was a while back and now I invite you to gaze upon my knob! Preorders opening soon. ^__^ 3102
NFG @nfgworld.com · 01/03/2026I've had two Wico rotary joysticks (Ikari Warriors et al) for decades and never understood why it had 2 of 12 directions with extra components. Tonight I finally beat my head against it until I figured it out. It's now on the GameSX wiki: Everything you never asked about the Wico rotary joystick. 042
NFG @nfgworld.com · 01/03/2026So, how's that AI translation coming along, eh? Here's Musk's dumbfuck AI mis-translating Raiden Fighters to R-Type Final. Now let's get it to build rockets! Worst fucking timeline ever. 480
NFG @nfgworld.com · 01/03/2026Writing up everything there is to know about the old Hori Fighting Stick V3, a PS3-era stick (also released for the Xbox) that's a good size and easily modifiable. 020
NFG @nfgworld.com · 21/02/2026I'm cheerfully working my way through a Sega CDX recap and <sniff> burning plastic? Why? Where? Why? Oh. Welp, FML. 🪦 Anyone got a CDX front plate going spare? 230
NFG @nfgworld.com · 16/02/2026I found a few boxes of Cisco Cereal that I'd always meant to scan, because it was delicious and I liked the boxes (and the unusual flavours). It seems to be long out of production, and I miss it. These are Strawberry, Melon and Hotcake flavours. Best corn flakes ever. 110
NFG @nfgworld.com · 13/02/2026The reason I started scanning stuff today: I wanted to play Star Soldier on Gamecube, but my controller adaptor was missing some buttons. So I tried to find the manual online, or at least a controller guide, but neither seems to exist!? So I scanned the GameCube manual. ^__^ 141
NFG @nfgworld.com · 13/02/2026The d-pad stick was the best iteration of a bad design, but for Magical Drop I'd rather have a d-pad. We promoted the hell out of the system when it came out, I had nearly the whole library at one point. I don't know what my point is. I love it, it mostly sucks. And maybe I ruined a kid's life. 140
NFG @nfgworld.com · 13/02/2026I've been doing a bit of scanning today. Here's four Neo Geo Pocket games, which is about half of all the game I have left for that system. I love the NGPC, but most of the games were awkward fighters or needed a linked system to really enjoy. On their own, Puzzle Link and Magical Drop are tops. 251
NFG @nfgworld.com · 08/02/2026I spent way too long writing up docs for arcade cabinets I don't even own. Please enjoy the pinouts and part numbers for the wiring in Konami's Windy and Windy 2 cabinets! gamesx.com/wiki/doku.ph... gamesx.com/wiki/doku.ph... 1116
NFG @nfgworld.com · 02/02/2026So today I spent 90 mins going to see the Border Control folks. They have no customer parking and there was a dead bird in front of their main door. They had a sign by the counter, facing the customer, explaining what to do in case of an armed hold up. I expected the threat to be on my side. 11/ 100
NFG @nfgworld.com · 29/01/2026I've got important shit to do, so I spent two days learning KiCad instead. I designed a small drop-in PCB for a specific revision of Hori's Fighting Stick V3, allowing the use of Waveshare's RP2040-Zero running the GP2040 controller firmware. Download here. 050
NFG @nfgworld.com · 14/01/2026Signup fails on age verification with with Vivaldi, with all blocking disabled. Just get some shiny placeholder boxes that never fill in. 200
