Super "NeoGAF Arcade Stick Thread" II TURBO

Skilletor said:
General question, might be random, but the VLX is super hollow sounding. It doesn't bother me, but if I could put something in there to make it sound less hollow, that would be great. Anybody have ideas or suggestions? Somebody said bricks of Styrofoam, but I'd be worried about that breaking up and getting in stuff.
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You could tape the bricks up
 
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2 brand new. Oooooweeeeeeeeeeeeee <3 !
 
Here's an impossibly specific question that I'm not really expecting an answer to, but I might as well try:

So I found the Madcatz TES Wii U stick for pretty cheap and I have a couple of friends that play Tekken on the console, so I thought I'd add it to my collection. It works great.

I also have that TvC stick, and sometimes hook it up to a CC to USB converter to use as a second stick when playing SF4 or KoF on my PC when my friends are over. It works great.

Here's where I ran into a weird problem. When I hook the Wii U stick up to the CC to USB converter, my computer recognizes the stick, but won't register any button inputs or stick movement, even when I go into the Mayflash properties window. It still recognizes my other stick and controllers though and they work fine.

Does the Wii U stick not act as a CC like the TvC stick? I thought they were pretty much the same outside of form factor and buttons.
 
Codeblue said:
Here's an impossibly specific question that I'm not really expecting an answer to, but I might as well try:

So I found the Madcatz TES Wii U stick for pretty cheap and I have a couple of friends that play Tekken on the console, so I thought I'd add it to my collection. It works great.

I also have that TvC stick, and sometimes hook it up to a CC to USB converter to use as a second stick when playing SF4 or KoF on my PC when my friends are over. It works great.

Here's where I ran into a weird problem. When I hook the Wii U stick up to the CC to USB converter, my computer recognizes the stick, but won't register any button inputs or stick movement, even when I go into the Mayflash properties window. It still recognizes my other stick and controllers though and they work fine.

Does the Wii U stick not act as a CC like the TvC stick? I thought they were pretty much the same outside of form factor and buttons.
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I've had that problem too. TvC gets recognized fine, but my computer just won't recognize L or R, yet ZL and ZR work fine.
 
Tried switching DP, LS, and RS but no dice. I just find it bizarre that it picks up the stick but not any inputs.

braves01 said:
I've had that problem too. TvC gets recognized fine, but my computer just won't recognize L or R, yet ZL and ZR work fine.
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If you hit Home + L or Home + R you can switch the adapters mode. There are three modes that change how the stick, L, and R buttons are recognized. Here's a post from SRK that helped me out when I had that issue:

On the PC it turns out that if you press home+L or home+R button you can change the "mode" of the directions, L, and R.

For instance, while by default, the Mayflash is set to "Mode 1":
L and R is set to "s0 positive" and "s1 positive" (I assume these are analog) and the d-pad is set to "POV hat <direction>" (or something like that).

If you press home+R, then it changes to "Mode 2":
L is set to "Button 4" and R is "Button 5", just like all the other buttons (ABXY). The d-pad is set to buttons as well, i.e. "Button 10" for up, "Button 11" for down, etc.

If you press it again, it goes to "Mode 3":
L and R are the same as in Mode 2, but the d-pad... is kind of weird. It only registers Up and Right for me, and I think it's done via analog signals.

Press it again, and it cycles back to Mode 1. Long story short, if you press home+R or home+L (which just cycles in the other direction of home+R), you can set it so that every input is digital (by getting it to Mode 2).

Of course, I say all this having done it only with a Hori stick, and only on the PC. Throw a TvC stick or PS3 into the equation, and I can't say for sure how things would change.

Edit: This post is in response to TwoThirtyEight's comment that L and R wouldn't work because they're analog.
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I don't know if anybody can answer this question but I want to buy the TEKKEN TAG TOURNAMENT 2 Arcade FightStick Tournament Edition S for Wii U (what a mouth full) and would like to mod it so it can be playable on different consoles not just for the Wii U. My plan is to mod it and have it ready for my son as a birthday present. :D

Any know if this is possible on this stick?

Here is the link to the stick.

Thank you.
 
Labombadog said:
I don't know if anybody can answer this question but I want to buy the TEKKEN TAG TOURNAMENT 2 Arcade FightStick Tournament Edition S for Wii U (what a mouth full) and would like to mod it so it can be playable on different consoles not just for the Wii U. My plan is to mod it and have it ready for my son as a birthday present. :D

Any know if this is possible on this stick?

Here is the link to the stick.

Thank you.
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Most definitely would be possible, I'd get in contact with http://gummods.com/
 
Labombadog said:
Thank you for the quick reply. Would it be possible for I to mod it or is it a really tough task for this particular stick?
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A dual mod would probably be somewhat hard just because you'd have to unify PCBs which I don't really know how that works without a multi-console PCB.

If you were just making the stick compatible with a different console and losing Wii U support it would be easy as you could just buy a pad hack for that console and then throw it in the stick and wire everything up.
 
Rain Inn said:
A dual mod would probably be somewhat hard just because you'd have to unify PCBs which I don't really know how that works without a multi-console PCB.

If you were just making the stick compatible with a different console and losing Wii U support it would be easy as you could just buy a pad hack for that console and then throw it in the stick and wire everything up.
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Thank you so much for your help. :)
 
I'm trying to comeup with a new design for my arcade stick. Keepin my Iron Fist TE stick but the other one needs work anyhow and I'd like to do something special. I shmup a lot. I may give it a bullethell theme.
 
hibachifinal said:
I made a thing, sort of cutesy poster/checklist of original HRAP models, non-game branded ones.

im sad that i probably wont ever find a HRAP SE :(
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that is very cool. I am missing the 1B, 1 Amazon, 3 Amazon, and all the EX ones since I don't have an Xbox.

about the SE, don't lose hope. I somehow wound up with two of them lol, but I recently sold one to a guy I know locally. It was unboxed, however. Believe it or not I actually saw a boxed one get sold on YAJ like a few months ago. I wanna say it went for like 20,000 yen? 20 to 30.
 
Alfredo said:
Just wondering, but do those Madcatz Tekken Tag 2 Wii U sticks work on a regular Wii?
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If it plugs into a Wii Remote, I think it has to. There are no additional functions on a Wiimote that are only exposed to a Wii U, much less functions that an arcade stick would use.
 
hibachifinal said:
I made a thing, sort of cutesy poster/checklist of original HRAP models, non-game branded ones.

im sad that i probably wont ever find a HRAP SE :(
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There were only 400 units of the HRAP SE made. 40-50 of which were given as gifts to either media or reviewers in the industry.

Very hard to come by :(

It still pops up on YAJ from time to time, though. Don't give up!

Also. I like your chart! It is missing a few (some of the Amazon exclusive ones), but if you made a poster out of it, I'd buy it/hang it!
 
MarkMan said:
Also. I like your chart! It is missing a few (some of the Amazon exclusive ones), but if you made a poster out of it, I'd buy it/hang it!
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coming form you, this means a lot! i was mainly planning on making a cute hrap ex-se vinyl sticker but it ended up more than that...

which amazon exclusive ones am i missing? i only know of Orange HRAP1, White body HRAP3...
 
Ok, so I have a question that folks here probably don't really have the answer to, but I'm going to ask it anyways. Could at least use another opinion on the topic.

I've had a twin stick planned out for a while and I've finally got the woodworking done and I'm about to get to the point of final assembly and electronics. I've done padhacks before, but I honestly found them very tedious, so this time I wanted to go just with premade PCBs. I'd picked up two MC Cthulhus as I figured that I wasn't interested in 360 support (just PC / PS3) and I also figured that none of the currently available PCBs would ever support PS4 / XBone, so I could save money not getting the Akishop PS360+. However, now that time for assembly has finally come and I've seen the news that Akishop is actually testing PS4 software and seems to be getting continual development, while the MC Cthulhu is dead technology as far as I can tell, and hasn't been updated for some time.

Does it seem like at this point PS4 support for the PS360+ is pretty much a done deal? I don't know if it would ever support Xbox One or anything in the future. But given that it actually seems to be getting continual support, and that it has PS4 support currently testing I feel a bit silly wiring up MC Cthulhus into a really nice, fancy twin joystick. I mean, if I'm already going all out on the stick I might as well bite the bullet for $120 odd bucks to get a PCB that is actively supported and will probably have PS4 support at a minimum? On the plus side, I've been enjoying this joystick building hobby, so I'm sure to still use the MCs somewhere down the line (I got an old X-Arcade recently that I'm thinking of making into an iL stick).
 
Been kinda outatheloop with arcade sticks since I've been busy. But did just see this new exclusive Fighting Edge for amazon.co.jp releasing in june:

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Skilletor said:
http://akishop-customs.com/PS360Plus.html

Doesn't seem like they're ever very responsive, but they've been constantly updating the ps360, so I have no reason to doubt news on the site.
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Yeah, that is the one of the tricky things about stick work. Pretty much all these shops / suppliers are one man labor-of-loves, which is super cool for the services that they provide the community. But at the same time as a buyer it can be a little hard just sending off paypal money into the ether for semi-expensive stuff that you have no clue how long it will be supported. I think I got in one of the last orders before Lizard Lick shut down when building my first custom stick, and it's made me really gun shy since then about ordering from these slow responsive shops. I guess the nice thing about the PS360+s is that I can get them from someplace like Focus Attack instead of having to order from Akishop directly.

I think my gut instinct here is that I'm just going to pick up the PS360+s. From what I've seen it seems like PS4 support at a minimum is pretty likely. I'm currently mostly a PC guy, but if I pick up a next-gen console it's pretty much 100% going to be a PS4 so that would have me covered with all the options that I might need for years out. The way that I'm building my stick it won't be the easiest thing to get inside of it to tinker with, so seems worth the money to do it right the first time.
 
TheFightingFish said:
Yeah, that is the one of the tricky things about stick work. Pretty much all these shops / suppliers are one man labor-of-loves, which is super cool for the services that they provide the community. But at the same time as a buyer it can be a little hard just sending off paypal money into the ether for semi-expensive stuff that you have no clue how long it will be supported. I think I got in one of the last orders before Lizard Lick shut down when building my first custom stick, and it's made me really gun shy since then about ordering from these slow responsive shops. I guess the nice thing about the PS360+s is that I can get them from someplace like Focus Attack instead of having to order from Akishop directly.

I think my gut instinct here is that I'm just going to pick up the PS360+s. From what I've seen it seems like PS4 support at a minimum is pretty likely. I'm currently mostly a PC guy, but if I pick up a next-gen console it's pretty much 100% going to be a PS4 so that would have me covered with all the options that I might need for years out. The way that I'm building my stick it won't be the easiest thing to get inside of it to tinker with, so seems worth the money to do it right the first time.
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Yeah, that makes sense. These types of guys should probably just distribute their product as opposed to being a seller directly.

I have...3 or 4 sticks with PS360+s and I haven't had a problem. Really looking forward to having PS4 support for when a game I care about gets released.
 
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