The build combines everything you’d expect from other RasPi arcade projects, but manages to pack everything into the form factor of a portable stick modeled on the Neo Geo 4’s button layout.

There’s also an included 8-way gate for the arcade stick that you can swap out for the 4-way gate inside the controller. The headphone jack and mute button on the front are also useful.

He was hoping for a drop-in solution using an off-the-shelf trackball, but alas, finding one with the needed features that fit a standard American 2-1/4 ... thumb and arcade buttons poised ...

The stick, which like the buttons, is from premium S-rank Japanese arcade component maker Sanwa ... The stick is easily removed with the unscrewing of four screws, too, so if for some reason ...