An arcade stick thread

[Holio]

Just seen these here

[Soundwave]

Just seen these here

Why is the 360 one ?20 dearer?

Did anyone use them for the original pre-orders?

[Holio]

Guessing cause they more popular and they can take the extra 20 quid? I aint sure, but I have ordered software from them before and it was fine.

[Soundwave]

Guessing cause they more popular and they can take the extra 20 quid? I aint sure, but I have ordered software from them before and it was fine.

Ta for that.

Might check the old bank balance tomorrow & see if I can stretch to one this time round.

[randombs]

Thanks for the link, Holio.

I've just given it a shot, even if it is £20 more. If I get it I'll just get rid of my SE stick. Hopefully they didn't muddle things up and are actually selling the SE sticks for those prices!

Also, about the price 'hike', they seem to think the RRPs for the 360 and PS3 sticks are £130 and £110, so both of their sticks have 'save £20' on them.

[Pilotwings]

I ordered one also. Think I might have got the last 360 one as it says out of stock now. not unless I get a horrible email saying any different.

[Holio]

I ordered one also. Think I might have got the last 360 one as it says out of stock now. not unless I get a horrible email saying any different.

D'oh, knew I should of ordered before posting, you think too much about a thing, you know you'll miss out on it!

[randombs]

I haven't got an email confirmation yet (been 2 hours), maybe because it's bank holiday so I guess we'll know by tomorrow.

:edit: Just got the confirmation email. Doesn't say anything useful, though

[Pilotwings]

Ya just got mine aswell!

[randombs]

I was showing the link to that SoftUK site to a mate and they're now showing the regular SE sticks at the same prices as the TE sticks this morning with the same stock messages (out of stock for 360, in stock for ps3).

I just checked my order status and it still says Tournament Edition, and that the order is pending.

I'm gonna ring them in the morning and double-check. I've saved the order status on my PC in case something goes tits-up as we've bought it assuming it's the TE stick (heck, if we wanted SE's, Amazon has the them for £70 in stock anyway).

Hopefully it wasn't a cock-up and they've simply sold off the TE's and replaced them with SE's, but seeing as the 360 SE's are also saying out of stock and PS3 SE's as in stock (as was the case this morning when they were showing as TE's), I'm not holding out much hope, to be honest

[randombs]

Ok yeah it was a misprint, I just rang and he's cancelled the order with an email confirmation. He said that if I hadn't called, I would've received an email today anyway confirming the misprint and allowing the cancelling of the order, but thought I'd mention this anyway

[Myth]

Got home to try out my SE stick and it wasn't as bad I'd started to think it was going to be.

So far I've had no problems with the joystick sticking like some people have mentioned, however my hard kick button sort of sticks/clicks a little which is a bit annoying.

I'm thinking of trying out some Sanwa parts but I don't really know where to start, anyone able to point me in the right direction?

[randombs]

https://www.gremlinsolutions.co.uk

There's also a European site

http://arcadeshop.de

Which has the same sort of stuff.

Gremlin's a bit expensive, though - my Sanwa stick and eight replacement buttons came to £43 including p&p, although they did throw in an extra bubbly balltop in for free which was nice (they also did that last year when I ordered a balltop and buttons for my Dreamcast stick).

Glad you like it stock at least, you should be ok with it in that case.

[Myth]

Is there anything in particular I should be looking for or should any Sanwa parts fit?

This is the first time I've really got into using a stick so I've never even felt what a good arcade stick is like.

Thanks again for the help mate.

[randombs]

No probs. The bits you need are:

OBSF-30 buttons

JLF-TP-8YT Joystick

It's a straight swap-out for the buttons and stick, all you need is a screwdriver and a little knife to cut some glue that's on the joystick wire connector, and that's it!