good saturn arcade stick

Post by **Dudeman** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 11:22 pm

Hori Sticks have a long history of being designed to be arcade perfect in feel, but they are also extremly expensive, only die-hard need apply. The saturn is lucky to have numerous options (HORI is the only real option on ps3 360 and wii). There are 4 primary arcade sticks for the saturn:

Hori (pictured above) - This stick is high quality, but you pay for it, $50 easy.
Virtua Stick (pictured above) - This is Sega's Original official Arcade stick for the saturn. Its durable, and now very cheap to find. Its layout is relatively akward however, and the adjustments on the top are annoying. Worst part is the L and R buttons are a different shape.
Ascii Arcade Stick - This stick has the official sega seal. It is durable, with solid metal base, and has a more comfertable button layout than the virtua stick. The joystick is also stick, not ball. I like to think this stick fixes almost every problem the virtua stick has. This can usually be found for $20 or less new.

Eclipse Stick - Imagine if you will, a piece of crap. That is what this is. I don't know how it got the seal, but ignore this thing. http://images.channeladvisor.com/Sell/S ... ECLIPS.JPG

Having used all of these, comparing price and quality, I actually recomend the Ascii stick. The Hori may be higher quality, but not enough to justify the price increase. Pluss, I dig the stick style joystick considerably.

Post by **raztat** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 11:59 pm

I think im going to go with the acsii, maybe hori if i see one around here for cheap.

Post by **geist** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 9:50 pm

I have a couple of these sticks:

http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=h ... f%26sa%3DG

I think they're the official Sega stick in Japan. Anyway the stick feels really solid, just like a real arcade stick and buttons.

Post by **skate323k137** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 7:53 am

the link posted above by geist is the definitive saturn stick, end of story. I've never gotten around to buying one, they're hard as shit to find and it seems they only pop up on ebay when im broke. without modding a stick it's the best one you'll ever find.

the ascii stick (which i own) has a nice joystck but crap rubber plungers under the buttons. The sega virtua stick (not the dope one mentioned above) Is a pile of s**t as far as im concerned, same crap rubber button plungers, and if i rember right the joystick isn't even microswitched.

I sprung for one of the Hori fighting stick SS's picuted in the second post.... honestly, i wasnt that impressed. I'm definately going to put looser feeling microswitches in the joystick itself. The buttons were also, to my dismay, rubber plunger/PCB buttons. I took the sanwa-like buttons out of my HRAP2 and dropped them into the fighting stick SS, wired up my own harness, and now it's completely dolemite. I put HAPP controls buttons in the HRAP2, even though the holes are a tiny bit on the big side (HAPP/Amercian buttons are 1 1/8" (28.5mm), and sanwa/seimitsu/japanese style buttons are 30mm) They work just fine. I personally like the "clicky" feel of the happ buttons, i got used to them from my MAS systems stick.

Post by **vlame** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 8:18 am

skate323k137 wrote:the link posted above by geist is the definitive saturn stick, end of story. I've never gotten around to buying one, they're hard as shit to find and it seems they only pop up on ebay when im broke. without modding a stick it's the best one you'll ever find.

the ascii stick (which i own) has a nice joystck but crap rubber plungers under the buttons. The sega virtua stick (not the dope one mentioned above) Is a pile of s**t as far as im concerned, same crap rubber button plungers, and if i rember right the joystick isn't even microswitched.

I sprung for one of the Hori fighting stick SS's picuted in the second post.... honestly, i wasnt that impressed. I'm definately going to put looser feeling microswitches in the joystick itself. The buttons were also, to my dismay, rubber plunger/PCB buttons. I took the sanwa-like buttons out of my HRAP2 and dropped them into the fighting stick SS, wired up my own harness, and now it's completely dolemite. I put HAPP controls buttons in the HRAP2, even though the holes are a tiny bit on the big side (HAPP/Amercian buttons are 1 1/8" (28.5mm), and sanwa/seimitsu/japanese style buttons are 30mm) They work just fine. I personally like the "clicky" feel of the happ buttons, i got used to them from my MAS systems stick.

tutorial on this fix/mod. my stick doesn't play well in all directions and the buttons are old, i want to keep the buttons j style tho.

Post by **skate323k137** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 8:20 am

do you want a tutorial for the HRAP2 or the fighting stick SS?

Post by **vlame** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 8:21 am

fighting stick ss fix/mod plz.

Post by **skate323k137** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 8:24 am

I'll get to it later today most likely, it'll be a new thread in hacks/mods.

Post by **vlame** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 8:27 am

ok thanks.

Post by **skate323k137** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 9:52 am

you're lucky it's my day off, tutorial is up

you're welcome.