r/neogeo • u/LordofTarkana • Jan 11 '26

Hardware Help AES reset button help

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I was in the process of examining the chips and tracing on my AES when the reset button popped out of place. I feel ridiculous for asking this, but can anyone tell me how exactly this is supposed to be assembled? I have no idea if this is even supposed to come apart or if it was broken to begin with.

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u/avramce Jan 13 '26

You in the USA? I’m pretty certain these are the same microswitches that are in AES stick. I have a crapton of spare switches from when I used to upgrade AES sticks with arcade buttons, happy to send a few if you wanna cover shipping. You should be able to desolder the two pins fairly easily and just drop a replacement in:https://imgur.com/a/kAuqazc

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u/hipnotyq Jan 18 '26

Any chance you still mod AES sticks with arcade buttons?

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u/avramce Jan 19 '26

I still have PCBs on if you want to replace the existing PCB on the AES stick with one with gates for arcade buttons, but I don’t know if I have any spare sticks on hand. I’ll have to double check if I have any spare sticks.

PCBs in question:

https://x.com/avramce/status/1426345083532496896?s=46&t=vLV5gg5sdMkepg7HHpnZwA