09-25-2017, 03:53 PM
I finally wrapped up my FPZ build tonight. I actually fully finished it about a week or two ago but the X and Y button holes kept bugging me, so I bought a completely new shell and made all the mods over again. In the end, the new holes were just as bad as the old except this time X is wonky and Y is pretty close to perfect (the reverse of last time). To me, drilling these holes is the hardest part of the whole thing. I don't know how people make it look so simple. I bought a set of stepped bits, used the pencil trick to mark, measured multiple times, and even wiggled the template back and forth to find the "center". I am either terrible at drilling holes in plastic, or as crazy as it sounds, I think the template is off! Sorry, I called it!
I also needed to get a Y (triwing) screwdriver since I didn't own one. Now everything is nice and secure and I don't want to make a third attempt at the shell. I am happy with the way things are. The only small issues I am having now is seemingly decreased audio quality. It used to be pretty silent but now there's white noise. Not sure something crossed paths while I kept assembling and disassembling things. I am also suddenly getting really slow responsiveness in ES, just scrolling between games and consoles. I don't even have that many roms (25 in 4 consoles). Hopefully this isn't a hardware issue.
Thanks to Ed for all the patience and support. This ended up being a really great project to work on thanks to the support and the high quality product.
Gallery - https://imgur.com/a/Siccb
I also needed to get a Y (triwing) screwdriver since I didn't own one. Now everything is nice and secure and I don't want to make a third attempt at the shell. I am happy with the way things are. The only small issues I am having now is seemingly decreased audio quality. It used to be pretty silent but now there's white noise. Not sure something crossed paths while I kept assembling and disassembling things. I am also suddenly getting really slow responsiveness in ES, just scrolling between games and consoles. I don't even have that many roms (25 in 4 consoles). Hopefully this isn't a hardware issue.
Thanks to Ed for all the patience and support. This ended up being a really great project to work on thanks to the support and the high quality product.
Gallery - https://imgur.com/a/Siccb