Hori sticks - differences, features

[killing_floor]

I'm looking to get a good arcade stick for the PS2 ( use converters for the rest ) - anyone know what the various differences are with the 3 main Hori sticks? I read the threads about the newest one and about the SC one - anyone know how they compare, what are you paying extra for other than sans-big-graphics? How is the Fighting Stick from Hori different?

Anyone think i should get something other than a Hori - like, do they have annoying clicky noises? or are too stiff, or any complaints I should know about? Do the buttons click back up or are they springy, etc?

are the directions programmable - can I play it as left or right handed stick ( don't reply if you even think of saying sommat like 'cross your arms' )?

cheers.

[killing_floor]

no-one here has compared these sticks? or those that have also all find 'cross your arms' as a solution to L or R hand joystick use?

[killing_floor]

a link even? i have seen the hori site, sadly i cannot read the language. there must be differences if the prices differ, or is that just 'latest ones cost most' ?

[Saurian]

The best stick for the PS2 are the Hori SC2/Tekken4 type (cost/performance wise). http://www.lik-sang.com/info.php?cat...ducts_id=2871&

Light precise buttons and stick and overall weight is not heavy. Commands can be executed and buffered extremely fast on both this and the VF4 Evo version which uses the same components, I can get 466P+K in any gap using the Evo version and K+G (release G in 1 frame) comes out 9/10 times.

The only one better than that one is the new high grade one from Hori, it's more expensive but it's absolutely superb.

http://www.lik-sang.com/info.php?category=22&products_id=5079&

None of these sticks are programmable - that's for skrubs.

[killing_floor]

what's a skrub?

apart from something that users of hori fighting stick 2 seem to be then.

i wanted programmable directions, don't care about the buttons. i like to have the option of playing the stick with my right or left hand. hell, i wanted the option to drive cars with the steering wheel in the centre as well but other than the McLaren i don't think any cars are made that sensibly (for the road of course).

(see how the right side of the body is controlled by the left side of the brain, and vice-versa - and that both brain hemispheres deal with different abilities? i like to be able to test that and see what differences it makes to gaming. the usual one is to say that right brain is more spatially aware and good at maths and abstractions, whereas the left side is more linear)

[Saurian]

That's great man - really.

Personally I would concentrate more on technique and apply it to game strategy, but to each his own.

[killing_floor]

it makes a big diff. what brain hemisphere is doing what - see like a double processor - one is for one set of stuff anfd the other is for other calculations? that's like the brain, sort of. one hand will be better for directional control the other will be better for firing bombing etc, button stuff.

most people are right-handed because their left brain is the dominant hemisphere, fewer people are left handed because fewer people have a dominant right-brain.

also, when your father attacks you and fractures your thumb, like happened to me yesterday, it does help to have the other-hand-joystick option. as i could still use my fingers for the buttons but use of my thumb is out on the left-hand for about a month. which sux.

[Pij]

apart from crossing your arms, the only other thing you can do is open it up and rotate the stick(and/or move the buttons)

I used to have to play with crossed arms when they used to have the buttons on the left in arcades, never stopped me playing SF2

[killing_floor]

gaming has lost a lot that it did have years ago - there used to be loads of joysticks availible for all kinds of computers and consoles with stuff like switchable direction control, or twin sticks and centered buttons (the best!) - also good if you got a copy of Karate Champ using the PCB contols.

[yashiro]

Karate Champ! Awesome game.

[killing_floor]

I loved going to Glasgow airport years ago as that was where there was a Karate Champ machine! (b4 home computing and consoles were availible to me)

I remember being happy cause I won a match, then suddenly having a bull or a vase thrown at my character, causing them to die in the training session. I'd think 'how can i find out what to expect off these machines so i don't lose my money when i play them?' - of course nobody I knew was interested in what I liked. Being young sucked tho' cause I'd never have money to play the machines and it would be a right chore trying to get any from the folks for it.
But when I did have the coins it was a pure 'hallelujiah' time.

My favourite KC move was doing a backflip over the other guy and back-kicking them down.