Itt: arcade sticks

[Anonymous No.9745608]

Ps1, PS2, Dreamcast and Xbox arcade sticks

[Anonymous No.9745620]

>>9745608
use modern customized instead
brook makes adapters for most systems

no sense in chasing a (non-serviceable) whale anonkun

[Anonymous No.9745630]

[Anonymous No.9745634]

[Anonymous No.9745645]

>>9745620
Looks cool

[Anonymous No.9745646]

>>9745608
>Xbox arcade sticks
Doesn't exist (except that one gamester monstrosity).

[Anonymous No.9745648]

>>9745646
retroboard and literally anthing that holds buttons anon

[Anonymous No.9745649]

>>9745608
superb asthetics

[Anonymous No.9745652]

>>9745645
thnx bb
i have everything i need
mister, saturn, dreamcast
i might get one of those tiny toaster pc at somepoint
but realistically i hate playing console titles with arcade sticks and want only actual arcade titles or pcb

[Anonymous No.9745657]

Sovl

[Anonymous No.9745661]

>>9745657
MAS

that guy was based af
the particular one you posted does seem a bit uncomfortable in 2023 though

i guess his remaining family is rebranding and selling modern custom sticks again
kinda neat

[Anonymous No.9745679]

[Anonymous No.9745684]

>>9745646

[Anonymous No.9745691]

>>9745646
...

[Anonymous No.9745696]

>>9745646
.....

[Anonymous No.9745701]

>>9745608
Just ordered this for cheap. Waiting to see how it performs on final burn/mame and ps2

[Anonymous No.9745703]

>>9745657
the name "super pro stick" was a rip-off of a Japanese stick of the same name that came out earlier

[Anonymous No.9745704]

[Anonymous No.9745705]

>>9745701
>forgot pic

[Anonymous No.9745709]

>>9745705

[Anonymous No.9745713]

>>9745703
These sticks came out in 1992.

[Anonymous No.9745715]

>>9745634
>Shows ps4 stick

[Anonymous No.9745716]

>>9745634
Sleek

[Anonymous No.9745718]

>>9745709
How cheap?

[Anonymous No.9745724]

>>9745679
Not retro

[Anonymous No.9745725]

>>9745718
35 bucks. Which for the quality (seems to be built well, I’ll soon find out) and ps2 compatibility (it says limited, but I’m also going to try it on a ps1) it seems like a steal.

[Anonymous No.9745728]

Picked one of these up from Yahoo a few years back. Very nice quality.

[Anonymous No.9745730]

>>9745713
90's Sovl

[Anonymous No.9745735]

>>9745725
Get yourself a dinner tray of some kind like they use at fast food restaurants. This will let you use it on your lap.

[Anonymous No.9745736]

>>9745728
Ops

[Anonymous No.9745737]

>>9745704
garbo

how can a modern stick ruin the layout this badly?

[Anonymous No.9745739]

Not retro but I like this design

[Anonymous No.9745743]

>>9745724
is filled with the complete neogeo library
cps1&2 +various other horizontal shmups and taito titles

also works with pc and mister

[Anonymous No.9745767]

[Anonymous No.9745772]

>>9745705
Looks gay

[Anonymous No.9745813]

>>9745735
Thanks for the tip. I should be able to find something of the sort at a thrift store.

[Anonymous No.9745816]

>>9745772
Only the painting, which I plan on painting over with a matte black. Idk about the joystick ball, I think it’s kinda cool.

[Anonymous No.9745820]

[Anonymous No.9745874]

>>9745661
his successors actually licensed the rights for another company to make them. they just rake in the royalties.

[Anonymous No.9745881]

>>9745704
I had this and sold it because I despised how bad the XInput support was. I wish I had been patient enough to save it for when I started modding sticks.

[Anonymous No.9745889]

I have the Mad Catz Official Street Fighter IV Arcade Fight Stick - TE 2.
I got it second hand pretty cheap and I think it's broken/dirty or something.
Most of the buttons don't spring back properly and sometimes.dont recognise input if you press them too quickly.
Might just be shit though.
I haven't used it again since I got it.

[Anonymous No.9745890]

>>9745767
I have one of these collecting moldy dust. Took it out of the box maybe once

[Anonymous No.9745893]

>>9745889
It's like 15 years old at this point. You need to swap out the buttons.

[Anonymous No.9745896]

>>9745608
Have one of these too. Pretty nice little stick from the old days. Too bad it's unusable on your lap

[Anonymous No.9745945]

Bought one. I'm 100x worse with it. It's slower too cus I have to use a dongle to use it on my Xbox. So it feels slower than a wireless controller.

[Anonymous No.9745958]

>>9745945
It takes about 300 hours of usage to get a natural feel.

[Anonymous No.9745960]

>>9745958
That's too many. I should be better from the jump if it's truly a superior input method

[Anonymous No.9745968]

>>9745813
Or you could just take one from a Taco Bell.

[Anonymous No.9745971]

>>9745960
>I should be better from the jump if it's truly a superior input method
That's not how this sort of thing works.

[Anonymous No.9745975]

>>9745960
It's not superior. People use arcade sticks because they are fun and/or what they are used to, not because they are better than pad.

[Anonymous No.9745992]

ive never understood sticks. how is it faster to move the stick than the dpad with my thumb?

[Anonymous No.9746048]

>>9745992
I'm the opposite. I started gaming with joysticks on the C64, and missed out on console gaming until the ps2 so never needed to train my fingers on a dpad. Never got the hang of them. I'm much faster with an arcade stick with an underhand grip.

[Anonymous No.9746059]

>>9745620
Is a 3rd party wired controller like a PS3 stick going to work with PADEMU on PS2 or does it have to specifically be a DS3 like the crappy support on Wii homebrew

>>9745696
That looks both ugly and uncomfortable, what the heck Hori

>>9745889
That's a TE1 though

>>9745992
Because you can use more than your thumb. It's not faster though (some people will insist it's slower based on their lizard brain presumptions but it's not really), mostly just more comfortable. They can be more reliable for certain kinds of inputs because you don't need as tiny of movements but that depends on the joystick style and is why people have different preferences for different games.

[Anonymous No.9746090]

>>9745737
Modern? The X-Arcade is circa 2001

[Anonymous No.9746215]

>>9745735
Whenever I see these trays I think of McDonalds tray drifting

https://youtu.be/BbAd_56yqfg

[Anonymous No.9746593]

>>9746059
for ps2 functionality i would imagine you need some type of adapter
https://arcadeshock.com/collections/playstation-3/products/brook-ps4-ps3-to-psone-ps2-super-converter-retro-series

[Anonymous No.9746597]

>>9746090
i had it confused with the "tank stick"

anyways their website claims this "What began as a three-person operation has grown to a leading video game accessory brand worldwide serving professional athletes, celebrities, industry-leading companies, universities, AND everyday nostalgia-seekers.

Xgaming® was started in 2000, and was previously-based at the revolutionary graduate program for video games at Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center. (external link)

To find out more about Xgaming®, check out this feature in The Business Times"

three fags in 2001 doesn't mean that exact product has existed since then anon

[Anonymous No.9746620]

>>9746593
Yeah not worth it considering PS2 is full of stupid 480i conversions anyways and I have opposite Brook adapter for a reason.

[Anonymous No.9746624]

>>9746620
for ps2(1) i use emulation
i know its not the same but im happy with my current lineup: saturn, dreamcast, mister, pc +all those mini arcades (taito egret, astroV, etc)

[Anonymous No.9746632]

>>9746624
and i mean, i HAVE the original hardware but do not use sticks

[Anonymous No.9746820]

>>9745634
Obsidian is GOAT except for the stupid tiny Start button. Also needs to be weighted

[Anonymous No.9746830]

>>9745716
>>9745715
>>9746820
the triangle button is a tight fit for screw in buttons - gamerfinger are v low profile and technically it didnt fit
if you pull up from the top it will wiggle as it cant be screwed down all the way


>herpa derpa dat ps4 tho
it works on mister, pc, ps3 & older systems with a plethora of brook adapters

why would you pay top dollar for a raggedy shitted on vintage stick?

[Anonymous No.9746834]

>>9745874
sad

but i do hope the senpai
cut a good deal for themselves

[Anonymous No.9747041]

>>9745960
sticks have an advantage in certain areas over pads. sticks have a lever so it will always take longer to input the same motion than a pad. srks on a pad will always be faster. on the other hand you can easily reach all 6 buttons on a stick so you can do shit like double tab, piano motions, negative edge, weird button presses like lp+lk+mp easier on a stick. the thing is, most of these "legacy" inputs only matter in old games. nowadays games have lenient input requirements or you can straight up use the ingame macro (used to be not allowed back when I played).

the only reason why I switched from pad to stick was that I am a fucking autist/purist and it felt like the right way to play fighting games. Longer gaming sessions (6-7hours+) also fucked up my thumb.

[Anonymous No.9747051]

[Anonymous No.9747059]

>>9747051
the superior choice if speed is of the essence

[Anonymous No.9747061]

>>9747051
*ahem*
boooOOooOoOooo!!!

[Anonymous No.9747071]

>>9745772
Based

[Anonymous No.9747262]

>>9746830
>raggedy shitted on vintage stick
sometimes its about the memories themselves
for this very reason i have:
nes advantage, ascii snes advantage, sega & ascii ps1 stick (the one that looks like a playstation)

i made it a point to grab all the shit from gaming mags i always wanted as a kid
even if its "ass" by modern standards

[Anonymous No.9747272]

>>9747262
Dear God, never let me become like that please.

[Anonymous No.9747278]

>>9747272
you dont want to buy controllers from the late 90s?
what the fuck is wrong with you????

[Anonymous No.9747295]

>>9747278
I don't like cramming up my place, no. Regular console controllers and lightguns are fine. Those can be easily stored away in a drawer. But buying a bunch of low quality sticks when I could be using a higher quality build that supports multiple systems? That's why I draw the line. I don't need to cram up my place with stuff just because I wanted it as a kid. Matter of fact I probably don't rember many things I desired as kid. But I was also spoiled. Today I prefer owning less stuff.

[Anonymous No.9747306]

>>9747295
they are closeted
i still bust them out from time to time
i understand your point but i like to think that
i am pretty organized, i have bins, drawers etc
all my power level is mostly hidden besides the sperg "gameroom"

[Anonymous No.9748330]

Choombas, I really wanna build a retro arcade stick. Does anybody have experience with the Retro Board by Brook? How is it on real consoles? I don't wanna fuck with USB adapters and instead send the signal straight to the source. I have a MiSTer with some SNAC serial plugs and a PS2 that I need adapters for.

https://arcadeshock.com/collections/brook/products/universal-modding-kit-with-brook-retro-board

[Anonymous No.9748334]

>>9747306
As long as you're happy, I'm happy.

[Anonymous No.9748347]

>>9745968
There are no fast food restaurants for like 50 miles besides subway. I don’t want to use a subway pedo tray. I’ll probably just make a tray out of unused fire wood or something.

[Anonymous No.9748358]

>>9746048
>underhand grip
Better than side smashing the stick into the casing and grinding the gears til it’s looser than feminist in her mid twenties

[Anonymous No.9748459]

>>9745652
need this

[Anonymous No.9748471]

Do you guys prefer 6 or 8 buttons? I don't really need 8 but I still like it because I can accurately map the Neo Geo layout.

[Anonymous No.9748486]

>>9745620
Is that the RSK202 case?

[Anonymous No.9748563]

>>9748471
In principle I want 6 button but in practice I can't justify not having the other 2. Having them up with the select button and crap would probably be fine most of the time though, but say for SFA2 not using a CC macro is a massive disadvantage in this day and age with how picky it is about that LP+MK+HP input.

[Anonymous No.9748605]

>>9748330
I decided against getting this because the RJ45 cables per console are about as expensive as buying adapters for most consoles.

Instead I built several sticks with a Brook Wireless boards and use 8bitdo or brook bluetooth adapters with consoles. You end up with a less annoying result as long as you're not some fgc tournament fag, and if you really need absolute minimum lag they work over wired too.

Either way make sure you get that 20 pin harness, it makes the install dead simple.

[Anonymous No.9748621]

>>9748330
If you're doing mister or computer you can try
https://github.com/MickGyver/DaemonBite-Arcade-Encoder
I don't have a mister but this was created for it but I use a knock off for windows. I bought it off Amazon with a bunch of cheap buttons and a stick. It works good. Just need to know how to solder. The Amazon one comes with come cheap quick connects and cables but you can desolder them, replace the buttons, etc. I bought it to make a prototype before building a real one and I never got around to upgrading because it werx.

[Anonymous No.9748634]

>>9748471
use a 4 button lol

for a 6 button or 8 button you're better off using LK, LP, MP, HP for NeoGeo so there's no advantage to 8 button there

[Anonymous No.9748638]

>>9748634
forgot to add the pic, my modded NGX stick with a JLF, 22mm Sanwa buttons, and a brook board

[Anonymous No.9748653]

>>9748563
That macro is cheating, anon.

[Anonymous No.9748662]

>>9748653
In my heart yes, in the shitty tournament regulations and the fightcade favela where every other player is doing turbo'd reversal uppercuts, no.

[Anonymous No.9748665]

>>9748634
>for a 6 button or 8 button you're better off using LK, LP, MP, HP for NeoGeo so there's no advantage to 8 button there
What? Do you think that made sense to anyone but yourself? This is how you map on an 8 buttons stick:

1234
4567

See how it gives you 4 buttons in a row up top like on your stick for NeoGeo but also gives you the regular 6 button layout like in Street Fighter?

[Anonymous No.9748684]

>>9748665
No? It's uncomfortable to use your pinky in a game especially in a row like that. You should use thumb + 3 fingers.

You could reference an MVS cabinet or any game that actually uses 4 buttons like Soul Calibur to see how obvious that is.

[Anonymous No.9748694]

>>9748684
In that case I would probably prefer it to be

234x
1xxx

on an 8 button stick. That way the buttons are closest to each other.

[Anonymous No.9748712]

>>9748665
On a Vewlix layout (which got memed into being 95% of 8 button sticks) only absolute spic boomers play 4 across the top and not "3+1" for more curve. Not that a lot of people even play SNK games with a single row layout instead of 2+2 anymore anyways.

[Anonymous No.9748917]

>>9748471
8 buttons, because what if I play a game where I need it? I’d sit and think about the time I chose to buy a 6 button arcade stick like a retard
>picrel me if I bought a six butt

[Anonymous No.9748927]

At first I trained myself to play with the top row because that was closest to the original Neo Geo arcade layout and I wanted the true experience.
Turns out that is very hand on your hand over long periods.
I compromised and use

BCD
A

I filled out buttons five and six with pink and white respectively. I had a gray start button but somehow it just didn't look right to me so I put a white one in.

That said:

AC
BD

is probably superior and if you're coming from SF you should just go ahead and use it instead of trying to speak two different languages with your hands.

[Anonymous No.9748930]

>>9748662
Not I anon, not I.
I assure you I am using LS-32 + PS-14-G and zero assists of any kind. But I mostly only play ST on fightcade.

[Anonymous No.9748936]

I am proud of the fact that my finger has hammered a blemish onto the jab button of my arcade stick over the last year.

[Anonymous No.9748963]

>>9748638
a daring synthesis

[Anonymous No.9749350]

>>9745608
The Hori Real Arcade Pro 2 works for both PS1 and PS2. It has a very comfortable curve for the buttons, superior for me to the currently accepted Vewlix layout. I would have preferred to get the Hori Real Arcade Pro 2 SE (Special Edition, not Special Addition) but the base 2 was cheap but does require button replacements to not slide around.

>>9746059
Wait, that TE1 is what I have. What is wrong with the TE1?

[Anonymous No.9749358]

>>9745889
Sanwa buttons don't last forever. Replace the buttons and it should work perfectly.

[Anonymous No.9749368]

>>9749350
>What is wrong with the TE1?
Earlier versions aren't grounded (or something) properly so static buildup will sometimes make either one or two trigger buttons or the entire stick shit out until it's unplugged, depending on your environment. By modern standards they're also laggy as shit but that just tells you how much 1 frame really matters that nobody ever complained when they were tournament standard. It's mostly a good case and parts though, although I don't like how I can bend the shit out of the case around the cable compartment.

[Anonymous No.9749384]

>>9745634
D-do y-you... like m-mine...?

[Anonymous No.9749758]

>>9745634
so hard core he even uses his stick in tate mode

[Anonymous No.9749783]

>>9747051
You didn't win.

[Anonymous No.9750114]

>>9748927
i prefer
A B C
D

but most neogames arent using all 4

[Anonymous No.9750117]

>>9748486
dual astro city mini
not the cheapest but i got a deal on the second one

>>9749384
cute, CUTE!

[Anonymous No.9750129]

>>9748459
the casing is from ebay
but theyre floating on aliexpress also
the stock buttons were garbage
getting the case open was v annoying
you have to destroy 4 plastic rivets and replace them with screws that fit

i swapped them for metallic qanba omcrons

the thin vinyl print tore during the process so both of them look thrashed- just like a real neogeo cab kek

[Anonymous No.9750405]

>>9750117
So that's not a MiSTer FPGA in the background?

[Anonymous No.9750551]

>>9750405
whoops i was thinking it was a stick model

it is a mister but i got the case from a guy on etsy - he may have stopped selling due to tards reviewbombing him saying the pcb doesnt fit

[Anonymous No.9750563]

>>9750551
oh wow it is one of the RSK202 cases!

[Anonymous No.9750969]

Opinions on these? Worth swapping out for sanwa parts?

[Anonymous No.9751353]

>>9750969
It's old enough that modding it for Sanwa parts would be a shame. Just buy a Mayflash stick.

[Anonymous No.9751421]

>>9750563
>RSK202
kek
it is VERY similar
but it has added autistic starwars stuff to it

[Anonymous No.9751424]

>>9750969
do what you want
however its not always a drop in experience

sometimes the faggy buttons are soldered to the pcb and one ripped trace turns into a ruined vintage item

even sega is guilty of this
also many times modern buttons BARELY fucking fit (or look garish)

[Anonymous No.9752202]

>>9751424
Sega tends to be the worst about this, their in-house buttons (which suck) are like 29mm instead of Sanwa/Seimitsu standard 30mm.

I've modded a bunch of old sticks and honestly most are kind of a nightmare, the worst of all being the Neo Geo AES stick it's very tight inside. The Namco Playstation Stick in the OP is tight too because of the wedge shape but for the mod I did I kept the stock stick and buttons and just swapped the stock PCB for a Brook board, but that meant desoldering the buttons & destructive changes to the daughterboard under the Start/Select buttons. You might say that's a travesty but you can still get those sticks brand new for <$100 if you know where to look.

Other sticks I had to do rust mitigation / repainting and change out worn buttons like on the ASCII Famicom stick -- hard to call it fully reversible when I'm sanding the surface to get rid of rust. That's when I didn't drill new holes in the body to add a Home button like I did to a Virtua Stick that thankfully came with Seimitsu buttons and not Sega's junk.

The HORI Fighting Stick series at least uses proper 30mm buttons so you can swap those really easily but a lever swap is a lot more annoying. And yeah you'd have to either remove the stock PCB or resolder new buttons to it.

You really just have to accept that you're going to be changing vintage hardware that isn't being produced anymore. If you're not comfortable with that, then walk away. IMO if you own it and want to do something then who cares what anyone else thinks, the modded sticks I have are way more usable and fun than what I started with.

[Anonymous No.9752280]

>>9752202
The only thing that might fit in a lot of old home sticks is an LS-33, albeit I think at least one of them has an unmarked or clone one in it already.

[Anonymous No.9752432]

>>9752202
I just don't understand this fetish with the incessant modding of shitsticks. It's one thing if you're poor, clueless, and are just trying to make the best of what you've got. But when people start going out and buying this stuff just to mod it it really becomes some kind of disorder.

[Anonymous No.9752505]

>>9752280
The Hori Fighting Stick SS has the old hori stock stick which is based on the LS-33.

[Anonymous No.9752507]

>>9752505
*PS in this case. But the SS has it too.