Sanwa GTX-Y Octagonal Restrictor Gate

Sanwa is an undisputed leader in the Japanese arcade market, but that doesn't mean the company isn't inspired by community-born modifications to their celebrated joystick levers.  Today, the company asks you to do just that - mod to your heart's content - with a selection of color-coded performance enhancers.

Octagonal Restrictor Guide

Quarter-circle, half-circle and full 360 motions no longer take effort or feel unnatural after installing this Octagonal Restrictor Gate into your Sanwa JLF or JLX setup.  A full 8 corners allows for smoother and more responsive motions for fireball, dragon-uppercut and spinning piledriver attacks. 

Compatible with Sanwa JLX, JLF

This product includes both the Sanwa GT-8X Square Restrictor Gate and color-coded insert. That combination allows you to swap the original gate in either the original Sanwa JLF-TP-8YT Joystick or newer SANWA JLX-TP-8YT Joystick.

Which Sanwa Joystick is Compatible?

This part will fit the following models

• Sanwa JLF-TP-8YT Joystick
• Sanwa JLF-TP-8Y-SK Joystick (No Plate Installed)
• Sanwa JLFD-TP-8YT Detachable Joystick Lever
• Sanwa JLF-TPRG-8BYT-SK Higher Tension Silent Microswitch Joystick (Please read Important Notes for compatibility)
• JLF-TP-8YT-SK
• JLF-TP-8S-SK

Important Notes

Guide Tips Not compatible with Sanwa GT-8F square gate

Sanwa's original restrictor plate - the GT-8F 4/8-Way Restrictor Plate - is not compatible with the newer GTN-VI, GTN-Y, GTN-B and GTN-R inserts.

TPRG Silent Joystick and GT-8X, Guide Tips

For those who would like to replace their original guide on the Sanwa JLF-TPRG-8BYT-SK Higher Tension Silent Microswitch Joystick, the contact of the lead switch may shift due to the impact when the guide plate is attached, and it may not operate normally. You may want to avoid the guide tips part of the mod for that model.

Sanwa JLF Clones

The JL-C-ALL kit and associated parts was designed for authentic Sanwa JLF models.  We're unable to speak for all Sanwa JLF clones on the market, or "knock-off" models that are pre-built into lower-cost Fightsticks, nor cheaper Zippy models.

Guide Tips

Guide Tips are inserts for the Sanwa GT-8F 4/8-Way Restrictor Plate that comes with your JLF. Each guide is color-coded and designed to provide a unique enhancement to lever travel, from the tried-and-true octagonal control of the yellow GTN-Y to the hybrid rounded square of the GTN-B.