haunts said:
I personally think having the "perfect stick" is kind of retarded... blah blah blah bling bling bling blah
Well I just like arcade sticks, dammit, like an unhealthy amount.
For me it's not about the "perfect arcade stick" because via my principles such a thing would not be appealing to me. I don't want one stick to rule them all. I want a stick specially made for each game that I play. I don't want to play SC2 with a six-button stick, so I modded up a four button just for that game. And when I play VF4 with the SC2 stick, the whole time I'm thinking "Goddammit, there's an extra button down there." So I gotta build a VF stick in the near future.
Plus, since I'm always trying to get new stuff, I'm trying new stuff quite often; thus I'm not going to get caught up on one style or model. What
will fuck me over is button layouts. I arrange or map based upon the closest I can come to the pertaining arcade layout, and my finger memory gets based on that. One time, Dark10x and I were going at VF4 at a Gameworks, and they used a straight-3 instead of a curved-3 like is proper and I had grown used to. That change messed me up so bad that he almost won a round.
Since the arcades are fucking dying, it doesn't look like I'm hafta worry about not being able to use the provided equipment. EVO looks to be BYOAC from here on, so that works for me too, y'know, should I ever
get there.
Neo_ZX said:
Can someone explain why sanwa parts are so good?
For the sticks, they have faster throws, which just means that it takes less time to hit the microswitch on a Sanwa than on a Happ. But I don't think you'll notice right off. In regards to the buttons, I've never heard a good reason to use them over Happ. In fact I've seen many sticks done with a Sanwa stick and Happ Competition buttons. Sanwa buttons are wider and look more like candy though, which is why they appeal to me more.
I've also heard of mechanical and infrared joysticks. Is it worth the investment for IR?
You're speaking of the Sanwa Flash which I
hear is discontinued (if you coulda gotten one anyway) and the Happ Perfect 360. We mostly call them optical.
I do like my P360, but I'm not going to work on one myself anytime soon. I've simply read too many stories about difficulties wring them up properly and about them arriving as lemons in the first place. There are other things I want to work on an try than that right now.
If you are going to mod that Nuby, just stick with a Happ Comp or Ultimate stick for your first time and go easy on yourself. Do you want to worry about voltages or drilling new mounting holes or deck width your first time out?
That said, snap-in Sanwa buttons seem to grip the SFAC stick's Plexi nicely. I didn't expect them to fit, but there you go.
Purrin from SRK said:
if you go with a Sanwa stick though, you're in for some lameness as you'll have to drill new holes and flatten out an area for the plate. BUT if you go with a Happ stick, "I think" you can use the same [quick disconnects] that are on there already and it should fit into the screw holes from the stock stick
