Neo Geo Pocket 4-Way Gate

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It's not perfect yet, but if you need to play some proper 4-way Pac-Man or Crush Roller on Neo-Geo Pocket and don't have one of the official 4-way adapters, then this should work for now. Basically, these two games came with little rubber gates that allowed 4-way play for the 8-way stick on the NGP and NGPC. It simply sits around the stick and prevents the diagonals from activating. I printed this low resolution with PLA just as a test for sizing and such and it worked better than expected. However, I'd recommend Ninjaflex where possible. You can tell in the pictures that the one I printed is very rough...original gate on the left, printed one on the right. Additionally, while PLA seems to work fine in terms of fit and functionality, if you NGP or NGPC has a glossy finish, then a PLA gate may not stay in place. As an example, it pretty much pops right out of my silver NGP, but stays nice and snug in my clear NGPC, which has a more matte finish. My printer doesn't print Ninjaflex well at all, so I'd like feedback from anyone who can print this with something softer as it will likely function better and fit more units the way it's supposed to. There's still a few tweaks I'd like to make to this but it seems to work well enough for now. Feedback welcome.