The price point looks to be on par with the Razer Panthera Stick.
I was able to purchase this off their ebay store, with an additional ebay promotion code taking an additional $20 dollars off. Picked it up for $285 AUD, compared to the $350 for the Panthera
From the descriptions it looks to be using Sanwa Denshi parts, and the stick looks to have been released last year?
Looking to see if someone else has seen/tried this.
Looks cool and very interesting. It’s the first time I’ve seen something like this. Let us know your impressions when you receive it and give it a whirl.
Received the box yesterday whilst at work. And as with anything I own, the first thing I did was take this apart.
Here are some pic I took whilst I was at work. Excuse the quality as my phone camera lens has been abused.
The whole stick is nicely weighted, I think the whole box is about 3.5 kg. Majority of it made of plastic, with the bottom panel being made of metal, which I think that where the majority of the weight comes from.
The stick comes with a hex screwdriver that is hidden in the cable compartment box and it comes with 2 foam holes to hold additions buttons as well. Once open it only allows access to the buttons and the joystick, with the PCB still hidden. There are 4 additional crosshair screws that will expose everything I believe but I didn’t have this with me to be able to open this.
Once the buttons and balltop is removed, there is 4 additional hex screw on top to remove the plexiglass and the artwork is replaceable. I measured the plexiglass and it was 37.5 cm x 21 cm.
Minor gripe I had is because it only came with the hex screwdriver, you cannot remove the balltop without a separate flat head screwdriver. Also the button on the top panel with the Start, Share, Home, L3, R3 buttons are not going to be replaceable, but this doesn’t bother me.
Otherwise I pleasantly surprised with the build of this.
Good post… i was planning on making one. I got the same one last week which came with Tekken 7, put my own art in it and changed a couple of buttons. Its great, I use to have a Madcatz te2+ and its almost as good. Plays great and that’s the main thing.I’ll put some pictures up soon
It looks like it is just a large breakout board. The shape and size is just to accommodate the function for the top strip. I see four LEDs, a crystal osscilator and a handful of resistors on the board, but the rest is really just traces to headers.
Oh you’re right. Last pic. Totally didn’t catch that before. That would explain the crystal occilator then. I wonder what that chip does. That Brook board is definitely a ripoff, like you had mentioned. There’s no tampo print of the Brook logo anywhere to be seen.
