An arcade stick thread

[randombs]

I'd rather go to IKEA. Cheaper and with more choice.
Nitori do have some nice stuff though if you don't mind the higher price.

I used to get stuff from Ikea when I lived near one, but now they’re too far from me and I find their sizes don’t match the standard measurements in Japanese flats(like closet space). Might be different if I was in a house, though.

[Yakumo]

I used to get stuff from Ikea when I lived near one, but now they’re too far from me and I find their sizes don’t match the standard measurements in Japanese flats(like closet space). Might be different if I was in a house, though.

I need to go to Fukuoka to visit IKEA. Its about 2 hours drive from where I live but it's cool because there's a massive hard off there too ��
I can see IKEA stuff not fitting too well in Japanese apartments. It's fine for a house though. Our bed is from IKEA. Proper full size double bed frame and mattress. Getting the mattress upstairs Was a right bitch though. Weighs a tone and it's 7 foot long.
The actual bed frame is iron and had to be built in the bed room.

[speedlolita]

Ordered replacement button for my HRAP 2 finally. Keeping with the vamillion buttons but going for dark hai for start and select like the HRAP 2 SA.

[speedlolita]

Ordered replacement button for my HRAP 2 finally. Keeping with the vamillion buttons but going for dark hai for start and select like the HRAP 2 SA.

Buttons arrived and swapped over. Feels much nicer to play on of course, the provided Hori buttons were horrible.

[SH4R4KU]

Lovely.

[Adam]

Got my Punk Workshop hitbox from China after a long wait. I like it a lot. Has lower profile keyboard switches so it's not a fat ass and I like the all black design. Has all the bells and whistles on the inside so it works on everything, including native PS5. Not in the picture but on the underside I put a sheet of sticky back velvet so it feels good if I put it on my lap, and some clear furniture feet in the corners too, so it don't slide on a desk. Love it Now to wait for DNF!

[hudson]

gorgeous! I had being toying with the idea of getting a hitbox on the cheap to practice on. Luckily I have a friend who let me borrow on overnight. I found it tricky. Plinking left, down to up was fine (half circle forward - playing as Mika), but was struggling going from right to left due to ring finger not co-operating . I imagine with time, I would get it. Other difficulty was getting used to jump button. If I see a cheap option sometime, I may fork out. I'll keep my eye on AliExpress. That seems to be the place.

I'm currently stuck in the middle of swapping between stick and gamepad. I love the 8-button arcade button layout, but for certain characters I find the stick can be a little awkward. Specifically for double tap dashing. So I'm feeling a dpad more for playing as R.Mika, but then the button layout on PS controller is awkward I'm waiting for this guy to release his dpad infused stick (without a stick). It has room to grip it like pad from the left-hand side to use the dpad, but you can rest on your knees like a stick for buttons.

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[Adam]

I've never seen those before! I can't do dpad though, maybe it's the size of my hands. I even play platformers with the analog sticks if I can Everyone's different eh?

[fuse]

Looks real nice! I've never spent any time with a hitbox but I remember playing a bunch of 6-button fighters on a keyboard many moons ago and being surprised at how quickly I got the hang of it. I feel like the FGC and the sites they lean on for hardware have had seen a huge migration over to them in the last couple of years though.

[wakka]

I had no idea what a hitbox even was when I saw this. I googled it and ended up some FGC subreddit and everyone on there was basically saying how they were way better than sticks. Which I had no clue about, I was under the impressions sticks were considered the gold standard (not that I know anything at all about fighters!).

[speedlolita]

Bah! Lever until I die!



I don't think I posted my most recent stick acquisitions in this thread.

Modern stick wise I picked up a Qanba Obsidian. Wanted one for ages, works very well between my PC, PS3, PS4 and MiSTer.




I also picked up a boxed HRAP ver B last year and popped sanwa buttons in just like with my HRAP 2.



Down to the Obsidian, the two HRAP and my old supergun stick now. Sold the rest.

[fuse]

Both very nice, and I'm with you on team lever! Might get a hitbox to tinker with some time, but I am an oldhead at heart and certainly not at the sort of level where I'm leaning on hitbox-exclusive combos

[speedlolita]

For a while the last year I was browsing the fightsticks subreddit quite frequently and yeah alternative directional inputs are super popular. I suppose levers might just become relics of the past at some point.

[importaku]

As someone who owns zero powertools but has the ability to solder is there and decent companies for getting them to print out the overlays/top panel cutting/box creation??

Always wanted to make a dedicated controller to play muse dash on switch but without powertools i'm limited with what i can make, the electronics side is fine it's the physical fabrication of the main unit i struggle with. Something like this but probably a lot smaller as i don't have the space for something that big.

[Asura]

Are hitboxes allowed at fighting game competitions these days?

I always disliked them due to their fundamental design, i.e. the ability to press opposed directions simultaneously.