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[EvilSamurai]

I’m dealing with a lot emails today from people requesting ps3 sticks. I’m still planning on launching a ps2 stick next month, and I had plans to launch a ps3 stick as well. I assume it would be better to just go ps2 and then sell the adapters for ps3 compatibility.

Does that sound like a good approach?

What is the best adapter out there?

Thanks for the feedback all.

There is an adapter thread here. The Pelican PS2 -> PS3 adapter was considered to be the best as it had a home button (PS2 games needed to be started with the home button in previous firmwares which kept many arcade sticks from functioning properly. This may have been fixed in an update and simple PS2 -> PC converters may work. You will have to check.) but there are others now that are probably lag free. If worst comes to worst, just hack a 3rd party PS3 controller.

BTW, congratulations on the IGN review.

[Figcoinc]

Made my decision…but…

Well Ed_Farias I decided to make the plunge. Your stick looks really good. Not too concerned about the buttons, and I am going to get the wireless headset if I want to chat.

I just would like a suggestion since you seem like a straight up guy. I am purely a fighting game man. Street Fighter 3, learning some Virtual Fighter 5, and of course SFIV when that drops. Which stick should be best to get? I am not a ball-top person so the Sanwa is out of the question. Therefore, I am deciding between sticking purely with the Happ and the Mag-stick Plus.

I like tension in my stick but not so crazy that I fight with the stick all day long. I read in a previous post that the only complaint you had about the Mag-Stik was it was too sensitive and/or tight. Just wanted your honest opinion on that.

Either way I am getting the stick. I just wanted to know if I should simply ask you for a hard spring in the happ stick, or just get the mag-stik.

Thanks! :lovin:

Oh course the rest of SRK can chime in too.

[Ed_Farias]

Well from what Read on another thread, it sounds like the Mag-Stick is similar to the MAC(?) I think it was. Mainly a europeon stick, which makes sense since it’s made in the UK.

If you want a tight spring, do you want to be my test subject for an optical stick? Toodles sent be a bunch of boards, and this might motivate me to test them out :). That’s if you like the optical feel.

If you don’t, I really do anything you want. I’m a bat handle competition stick fan myself, but that doesn’t mean everyone is :).

[Figcoinc]

Well from what Read on another thread, it sounds like the Mag-Stick is similar to the MAC(?) I think it was. Mainly a europeon stick, which makes sense since it’s made in the UK.

If you want a tight spring, do you want to be my test subject for an optical stick? Toodles sent be a bunch of boards, and this might motivate me to test them out :). That’s if you like the optical feel.

If you don’t, I really do anything you want. I’m a bat handle competition stick fan myself, but that doesn’t mean everyone is :).

I will send you a PM on this.

[Tim_Static]

Hey Ed, do yo have the happ concave translucent buttons?

[Tetsuosan]

hey ed what opticals are you talking about, the sanwa flashes that toodles was reproducing to take place of the sanwa flash? If that’s the cause I wouldn’t mind giving it a try. If you can please pm me with the specifics and the cost. Thanks

[mattnin]

Isn’t it copyright infringement to be including all those characters on your controller overlay, and selling it?

[Tim_Static]

Isn’t it copyright infringement to be including all those characters on your controller overlay, and selling it?

hahaha, um, no.

[mattnin]

So anyone can put pictures of galaga, or zangief on their controller and sell it without paying royalties? I don’t think so.

[Figcoinc]

Hey Ed, can you give me a update on the status of the stick?

Just PM me. No rush though.

[Tim_Static]

Hey Ed, can you give me a update on the status of the stick?

Just PM me. No rush though.

Your really better off contacting him through his website. Busy, busy, busy.

[Tim_Static]

So anyone can put pictures of galaga, or zangief on their controller and sell it without paying royalties? I don’t think so.

So tell me the law that says you cant? And how do you know they arent paying royalites?

[mattnin]

Go to www.copyright.gov and read all the laws yourself. I don’t know if he is paying royalties or not, but he isn’t even including a copyright disclaimer relating to Zangief and Capcom on his website!

[mattnin]

He accepts liability for his products that include copyrighted imagery and is responsible for the following: Obligation to make royalty payments. Notice has been given.

[Gasp]

hahaha, um, no.

ummm, yes.
how exactly is it not?

as far as its been mentioned, capcom doesnt really care enough to take legal action for the “petty” amount they’d go for, i think UltraDavid went as far as to say that they were flatter over our actions. but that doesnt mean they cant sue stickmakers for everything they own. they just choose not too.

[mattnin]

Some of you may wonder why I care, and here is why.

There is no doubt that Ed makes a fantastic product, and the product is even more so, desirable, with the copyrighted overlays he includes on his product. That being said, it makes it increasingly difficult to compete against his product especially since he includes the very nice, albeit copyrighted images which he does not pay for.

I have asked him to remove said images from his website and the option to include said images, or pay royalties, and he has been very nice and complied thus far.

[mattnin]

He can face suit by other honest joystick manufacturers like myself. And in Ed’s defense, he did not know about the copyright law, although that isn’t an excuse anymore as he has been given notice.

I have Zangief images on my website, but I obtained permission by Capcom, however I still cannot (and was not given authorization to) include his picture on my product.

[shoo]

lay off the double posts

theres such a thing as an edit button

[Gasp]

so basically you’re whining because he’s stickmaking and not paying royalties. i dont think any stickmakers on here are paying any royalties you plan on crushing our small community?

also a little legality here for you folks taking from the copyrights thread posted by ultra david

Capcom doesn’t just own a copyright in the game as a game, it also holds a copyright in the audio/visual work involved, and SF vids are copies of that.

As for damages, well, the only way Capcom could claim damages is if they were to show that this market (the market for SF videos) is one they might enter

You’re right about some of the artwork used in stickmaking. If it’s artwork made by someone else and you don’t have permission from that person to use it, then you’re infringing on that person’s copyright

For instance, when the stickbuilding aspect was mentioned, i was just thinking of those sticks with SF artwork. For those sticks, even if you aren’t making money by selling them, your stepping into the territory of people like nuby who actually took the time to work with capcom to get the right to make official sticks and pads, eventually having their own business go under trying to do so. If they saw people doing the same thing as them for free and without asking anyone, i’m sure they might be upset.

Capcom owns the rights in the audio/visual work aspect of Street Fighter and SF players can’t claim that they are co-authors, which means basically we’re screwed on SF vids. That said, my prof said that the chance anyone will get sued by Capcom is less than none because the videos only help popularize Capcom’s products, and suing them would put a dent in their popularity and sales.

[System_1]

Hello Ed,

I would like to know if you plan on implementing the increasingly popular multiple-pcb sticks? There are several ways to do this of course, but they seem to be more popular than having multple sticks, or using potentially laggy converters.