Madcatz TE/S USB Compartment/Door Replacement (N-30 Style)

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Madcatz TE/S USB Compartment/Door Replacement (N-30 Style)

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1. Good Solution but installation time may very

   I bought this product to modernize my MadCatz TE (the Chun-Li one). Disassembling the stick was not an issue, but I did have some trouble reinstalling the frames. The problem was that the product was a bit too wide on the left side pushing that side of the bottom frame out. Upon inspection, it seemed that there was some extra plastic added to the stick frame. This model is acrylic, while I believe the other round one and two editions were made of a harder plastic. Long story short, I had to use a metal file to shave some plastic off of both the frame and the product itself. I had to be careful not to ruin the acrylic, as this could have caused it to crack on the inside. I still recommend the product to those who plan on installing a new PCB. Just note, you might need a little patience to get the results you want. Unknown on May 26th 2023

2. Good fit for the old TE case and nice way to extend functionality with alternate PCB's

   The biggest strike against TE case customization besides being overly complicated to take apart is that there's just no convenient place in the existing TE case to drill extra holes in for more buttons other than the cable stowage compartment half of us don't use. The best part of this replacement is that you get those four extra buttons holes for the Home button, adjustment buttons, and the Neutrik jack/RJ45 passthrough you're gonna need for any custom PCB (MC Cthulu, Brooks boards) sold out there. I chose to the get the 30mm button wall plate because I have a ton of leftover 30mm buttons and didn't want to buy more 24mm buttons right now! Although the description doesn't say this, an RJ45 passthrough DOES fit in the provided space for the Neutrik jack so you're good for retro-console PCB support. There IS one problem besides the fact you have to take apart the TE case to install the replacement wall. On the Round 1 and Round 2 TE's (Street Fighter IV, Femme Fatale, Marvel vs Capcom 2, Super Street Fighter IV), the cable stowage compartment has an attached screw peg on the left bottom that you insert a baseplate screw in to fasten the baseplate to the TE case. Either you 1) go without this screw peg and attach the baseplate with only 5 screws, or 2) saw off and retain part of your stowage compartment so that you keep the screw peg to secure the baseplate a bit better. I chose Option #2 but it creates extra work. For my peace of mind, I did it anyway! The piece of the stowage compartment that I sawed off was roughly the width of my pinky finger (around 1/4") has both the screw peg for the baseplate and a fastening point on the left to attach to the inner middle part of the TE case. Because it only secures on the left, I chose to hot-glue the small piece of stowage compartment onto the inner frame to provide more support for it otherwise the chances of it snapping off in the future if I take the TE case apart again are fairly high. You'll definitely reduce stress on the screw by providing glue support. I hot-glued it in the front and left side to secure it better to the inner TE frame. In addition, I also used some scrap pieces of TE inner frame plastic to shore up the baseplate peg on the bottom of the compartment piece and provide more area for the baseplate to rest against. It might be paranoid to do this but I like to think ahead and provide reinforcement when I do mods like this. I don't know if this baseplate peg issue affects any other TE's other than the Round 1 and 2 cases but beware and check to see if it's any issue with your TE case's generation, too. GeorgeC on Nov 19th 2020