I recently got an ex2 fighting stick, I completly suck using it. For one thing, the stick feels very loose. I’ve heard you can replace the default stick with a sanwa parts, but I’ve got absolutly no idea about all this stuff. Is it easy to do and what type of sanwa stick should I buy that feels more firm??
cany anybody give any tips or point me to website that explains this stuff
thanks
i bought a ex2 back in november. it was my first stick and it took me a long ass time to learn to use it, since i had only played fighting games on pad. You just need to give it time.
I have 2 TE sticks now, if anything the sticks are “more loose”, not that that is a bad thing. I would suggest leaving the joystick stock and getting used to it. Sanwa buttons are way better than the hori buttons though.
Again, you cant learn stick over night. There is a misconception that a pad player is going to instantly be better once he puts his hands on a joystick. The truth is it takes time. It is well worth it though. Mainly for the vastly superior button layout sticks have vs controllers.
not to mention that playing on a stick rather than a controller will keep your hands from feeling like they have arthritis after playing for half an hour.
yeah thats true, after about a hours play, my effectiveness with charge characters goes down hill cos of the pain of the controller. But i was finding it hard to pull consistant fireballs with the stick,
guess i’ve just got to ‘stick’ at it
Same thing happened to me when I ordered a Hori FS3. I was used to Happ sticks and buttons in the arcades, but Hori stick was extremely loose for me. I opted to stick with pad and decide later if I wanted a stick. I’m enjoying pad very much right now, tho I might try a Happ stick in the future.
training mode, training mode, training mode.
I still go to training mode sometimes and practice combo timing and consecutive dp
Also set player 2 to comp and let it knock me down to practice reversal dp by pianoing.
when I first got a stick (FS3) I made sure I could consecutively land a move over and over in training mode. This starts to mess with your coordination after a while, so i recomend breaks every once in a while. You have to find the limits of the joystick motions for each special. (not over rotating or under rotating) Charge chars just need practice to not accidently push up when you don’t mean to. Hope this helps some.
btw I love japanese joysticks. I don’t like the ones at arcades with a stiff bat.
A real Sanwa stick is the loosest good stick you can get. It’s much more responsive than the Hori sticks on the FS but it definitely won’t be second nature in a month to Happ or pad users. I miss a lot of diagonals on a FS personally so I always stick to Sanwa sticks and buttons.
Hey hey,
It is possible to fire a sanwa stick into an ex2, but it’s also a huge hassle. It isn’t a straight swap like changing buttons, as the ex2 case isn’t deep enough so you need to keep some of the stock hori parts and it’s all very messy.
Some posted a top tier guide to doing it in tech talk a while ago, I’ve had a quick scan but can’t seem to find it.
Anyways, to be honest the Hori stick is pretty decent and I really wouldn’t advise changing it out. It’s very unlikely to be worth the headache, and I’m fairly sure you’ll get used to it before long.
Now get practicing the crossup into super!
I have the TE stick w sanwa stick and buttons, I notice the biggest difference in the buttons, not the stick. I haven’t played on the FS3 since Feb, but I dont remember the stick being that much worse. Sanwa buttons are awesome tho compared to the horis. Stick does feel better tho for sure.
Learn on the EX2 and then in a few weeks to a month you should have it down. Then you will be eager to try a top line stick. Then you should get something with sanwa parts. there is no transition from hori to sanwa, so don’t worry about that. 
Sanwa are the loosest sticks.If you want a japanese stick that is marginally tighter (and I do mean marginally), I would try an Seimetsu. Other wise the Korean Sticks are the next level up, followed by American sticks.
This will answer your questions:
Tech Talk subforum -> The NEW Essential Joystick Thread (it’s sticked) -> The Sanwa and Seimitsu FAQ & Official Sanwa Modification Thread
Here are a few more (and more specific) threads threads I found by doing a search for "EX2"
http://forums.shoryuken.com/showthread.php?t=181210
http://forums.shoryuken.com/showthread.php?t=140160
http://forums.shoryuken.com/showthread.php?t=190550
http://forums.shoryuken.com/showthread.php?t=188958
I’m not sure if I can get used to that loose feeling of the stick, what are the names of the korean and american sticks?
Saulabi, Happ
I went from pad to Happ to Sanwa JLF.
To begin with i used an OctoGate, a bat-top and i put 1-2 strips of electric tape around the actuator that comes into contact with the microswitches and maybe 3 wraps around the part of the actuator that comes into contact with the gate. I also put an extra spring inside to add more resistance.
Trust me, to get you comfortable with a stick, this is a good way to go. Moves are so easy to pull out.
But what i’ve found, is that now that im becoming advanced, slowly im reverting back to stock Sanwa JLF. I’ve removed the spring, thinned the tape down, and started to grab the bat-top as if it was a ball, so i’ve swopped back to the ball-top. Also i swopped back to the stock square gate, but… i’ve found that i need to play it on a fixed surface that doesn’t move at all. Playing with a square gate on my lap just doesn’t work for me. So i’ve kept the Octo. But i’d rather use the square now and if your ever considering playing in tournaments you need to be able to use a square.