Francis Wood a.k.a. Franco to you BYOAC users has come up with a little how-to on taking your joysticks and modifying them for custom LED balltops.

Check out the article as Francis does a quick how-to on taking a pair of Sanwa sticks and modifying the shafts to allow for an LED light to be implanted.

Nice job Franco! 

 If you’re like me, you’ve bought your share of retro game bundles for the P.C. or tested the emulator scene, only to be disappointed that the games you played in your youth are not as fun when playing with a keyboard or modern joypad. Even though I had bought various bundled packages, such as The Activision Anthology, or Atari 80 Games in One, these games would wind up gathering more dust than play time as I would head back over to my faithful 2600 to get my 8 bit fix. I had pretty much written off emulators like Stella or Z26 because the nostalgic fun factor wasn’t there for me. In my mind, it was either real hardware or nothing. This was until Curt Vendel of Legacy Engineering Group contacted us at Retroblast about a new product L.E.G. had for the retro-gamers out there.

More after the jump.....