Cheap Sega Saturn Virtua Stick for PC ;)

Is "Clicky" good?

There's a pretty cheap "Acteck" Xtreme Pro-Gaming or something like that in Mexico - I bought mine for 18 dollars. It's dual: USB and Playstation2, and it has vibration feedback and pressure sensitive buttons. The stick is very clicky - it took a while for me to get used to it.
It looks cheap, but not as cheap as many other Acteck products.

 

THey have a lot of deals on many things. It's part of their big summer sale. Sadly I missed out on the $15 Kessen II :-(

http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-17-74-sx.html

 

Not always. But Sanwa parts usually are and they're the best ones you can find for arcade controllers. Clicky Sanwa buttons seem to be more responsive than the non-clicky Sanwa ones, too.

 

No, I don't mean the buttons, I mean the joystick itself.

I'm asking because there's the Konami Simpsons game at a local movie theater, but instead of the typical Happ-style 'baseball bat' joysticks commonly found in the US, they've got green ball joysticks that don't have a whole lot of travel at all, and make no noise when moved. If they are Sanwa, I'm going to try and get ahold of the operator for those machines and see if he can't source a stick or two for me - Sanwa parts are insanely hard to get over here.

 

With my controller, it's the stick that's clicky - and it's one of those "ball on a stick" ones.
I don't think that's what you were looking for, though.

Right, dude?

 

Sanwa sticks are 'clicky', but its sound is hardly noticeable when you're playing. Check this shop to get not-too-expensive Sanwa parts in the US.

 

The joysticks you describe on the Simpson's game are likely using an old joystick/microswitch combo which were commonplace in US coin op games in the 1980's. It believe they're leaf-switch contacts which results in the non-clicky contact...my Snow Bros control panel uses them.


We didn't really see a proliferation of the clicky bat-style joysticks here in the states until the 1990's when SFII came on the scene.

 

The upside of a clicky stick and buttons is the immediate tactile feedback...you can "tell" when you're hitting your move points properly (important in fighting games) from the clicks in the joystick movement. Plus overall, once you get used to it, it's quite a pleasant experience IMO.

On a soft contact stick, it's harder to tell if you hit those important diagnols in your quarter circle joystick movements.

 

i love clicking

 

Hi, the stick arrived today after four agonaising days of waiting.
First of all, The stick is not that heavy, is about 3 pounds or so, but it does come with 6 rubber feet on the bottom so it holds to any surface really good and it doesnt move, The stick is really responsive and it makes the little clicky sound when you move it :smt1062, but the buttons do not make the clicky sound and i dont like them , but i guess they can be changed really easily because the stick has 6 standar screws that anyone can remove and they are not under the rubber feet so no need to remove them and then have to stick them back with crazzy cola:funkinmu:, overall it is a very responsive stick, i tested it with sf alpha 2, art of fighting, king of fighters 97, samurai spirits 4 and it works like a charm, every move connects correctly and the only problem that i can find is that the buttons do not make a clicky sound, does anyone know were i can but new buttons that make clicky sound ?

 

Most fighting game players will prefer the shorter throw japanese sticks as it means you can execute moves more quickly.

-hl718

 

do you guys know if these make clicky sound: http://www.himuragames.com/store_buttons.php ?

 

You could just use glue, too - might be easier. :smt043

A place to look that is a bit cheaper than Himura is http://www.happcontrols.com These guys are the makers of quality controls like you can find in arcades here, and you can get buttons in either the American style (concave?) or the Japanese style (convex?), plus in an assortment of colors, and there's no minimum order. I'm using their buttons on my PS2 stick, and they work like a charm - Happ sells their buttons with the high quality Cherry brand microswitches.

The only problem you could have would be the size - I'm not sure how long or wide the buttons on the Virtua Stick are (aren't some standard Japanese arcade buttons a little bigger around than American ones?) so you may have to do some measuring and look at the specs to see if things will fit or not.

 

No, they don't. But they have "clicky" Sanwa buttons not listed there. Mail them (well, "he"; his name is Rod) asking for "L-base" Sanwa buttons.