Official Street Fighter IV FightSticks & FightPad Thread (More on the way!)

Tech Talk
4001

Yeah seriously, that guy shouldn’t have opened that can of worms…He’s on the wrong forum to be trolling. SRK has a very low tolerance for scrubs.

But I’m going to humor him. (him as in Tha Shizzle)

First thing to mention S-Kill (Seth Killian) and MarkMan (Mark Julio) are names to be recognized by the Fighting Game Community, both are well known tournament veterans.

MarkMan himself has a collection over 100 Arcade Sticks both custom and retail…The guy has expertise and is literally a living database on Arcade Sticks. If anyone knows how to make the perfect retail stick with beyond custom level features, It would be him, and the Tournament Edition stick attests to this.

MarkMan himself is from my information the Head Designer of the stick, So it would be a given that the stick is being made by a Hardcore Fighting Game Enthusiast for Hardcore Fighting game Enthusiasts

Most of this stuff I’m going to say is probably going to go over your head, but I hope you are capable enough to understand half of this stuff.

First of all the TE stick will be the first ever retail stick in the US to on par with the level of some Japanese Custom Built sticks, hell even surpassing them somewhat, due to the features it includes.

As for it’s build It has all of the following

quick disconnects, labeled terminal strip, storage rack for spare buttons, common ground pcb, storage for cable, functional for dpad, left or right analog usage, two speed turbo functionality, lock out buttons to prevent accidental trigger of the Xbox Guide or PSN Home Buttons and even prevention of Turbo during an actual match. Even the Start and Select Buttons are conveniently placed on the rear to prevent accidental pausing. Some of those features aren’t even available on custom sticks, and hell it’s just as easily modded for those that want to.

The layout of the Stick itself accommodates more then one style of Fighting Game, something that most Custom Sticks usually don’t do.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y169/jam_86/sf4.jpg

A lot of care and thoughtfulness was put into consideration when MarkMan designed these things.

As for the parts themselves, which consists of a Sanwa JLF and Sanwa OBSF-30 buttons.

Sanwa making some of the highest quality arcade parts for Japanese Arcades, the buttons themselves having a usual life cycle of 1,000,000 button presses, and the Sanwa JLF joystick is one of the most widely used stick in many custom built sticks and modded sticks by Tournament Veterans / Professionals.

I think that clears that up fairly well.

Some of the others here such as MarkMan and Shin-Rotendo can provide any corrections if any of the stuff I stated was off, but I am quite confident I’ve hit all of the important points.

4002

Just so you know, that isn’t the SNK layout. The SNK layout (aka neogeo layout) is on more of a curve, like this: http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-49-en-70-2k7a.html

The only stick which even remotely comes near this is the Otomedius stick: http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/resources/2008/06/hori_otomedius_stick.jpg

If you mean the American SNK style layout, the first button is also far lower than what that picture shows. Proof: http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f11/electricgrave/488c31ab.jpg

4003

Would also like to know :frowning:

4004

I referring to the Actual Neo-Geo MVS Arcade Cabinet controls and not the AES home console joysticks.

Which have one button lower then the others and the rest at slight horizontal slant.

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g266/mazterm/mvs2.jpg

4005

That layout was for the AES. The MVS cabs actually had a button layout closer to what’s highlighted on the TE stick on that picture.

Edit: This wasn’t an “American layout”. It was the standard layout. I think you’re splitting hairs here. The button being lower to exact the MVS style would obviously be awkward. The 4 button line can still be used to play SNK games.

4006

What’s the word on the Canadian release? All I see is it’s USA only :frowning:

4007

nice some more infos , thanks!

4008

JB HiFi at Town Hall in Sydney has given me 2 different reports- yes, they’ll stock TE sticks one day, and then just pads and regular sticks the next.

However given the stock issues Mad Catz is having, I wouldn’t count on the former.

4009

The real MVS cabs, i.e. the Japanese ones, have a layout that matches the TE one perfectly (BCD aligned, A slightly lower). It’s only the fake american cabs that have the A button a mile away:

http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/3716/mvscpsaj5.th.jpg

4010

Ha! That was really funny I love it.

Oh, and MarkMan, the reason I bought the stick. So, I’ve only ever had one stick in my life, this was for the PSX and I got it for Street Fighter Alpha. This one right here http://store.videogamecentral.com/ascii-arcade-stick.html I hated it so much I said I’d never buy a stick again (I think this was in 1997). Anyways, fast-forward to a few weeks ago and I see some pics of the TE. I then find SRK, and hear some guy who literally owns hundreds of sticks designed the TE. Well, that was enough for me, so I preordered it and this was way before CES. I’m glad I did!

4011

OHHH DO YOU WANT ONE SIR DO YOU DO YOU :looney:

http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/4880/sticksdk1.jpg
http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/sticksdk1.jpg/1/w337.png

jizzed pants

4012

To give EU customers an update, amazon.fr has opened the pre-order yesterday and closed it this morning … guess they had something like 20 to sell …

No need to say that they are not likely to have more units in the near future.

4013

Hi guys,

we can say bye bye to character cards for TE stick.

Now as I said some posts up, I am really let down by this absurd decision (a 150 $ stick doesn’t come with some cheap cards) and I beg all of TE fan to send an email of disappointment to MadCatz.
Bye bye guys. Have fun !

4014

I’m just curious…Why are people so upset about these character cards? What do they do or add?

4015

contacted amazon.fr to know the status about quantities here is the answer :

Nous ne connaissons pas les quantits disponibles pour ce produit et nous avons dj reu beaucoup de prcommandes.

Nous avons donc retir la buy box il y a quelques heures.

Nous essayons de faire confirmer au plus vite les quantits disponibles.

En rsum : aucune garantie malheureusement ce stade.
En revanche nous ne prenons plus de commandes.
Donc si les volumes allous sont suffisants, les clients ayant dj pass commande seront servis en priorit.
Dans le cas contraire nous serons forcs dannuler les pr-commandes.

Basically , they had a lot of preorders and they have no idea how much units they will have , so no preorder is guaranteed right now , it doesnt seems that they are even sure to have one unit :rofl:

4016

I think people are just looking for something else to complain about since the 6/8 buttons and wired/wireless fiascoes have been done to death already

4017

no

they did a lot of work just to get these sticks out. i wouldn’t care if it came in a plain cardboard box, i’m not disappointed. be happy with what they have given you. if you want to petition for those cards, that’s fine, but to say you’re disappointed with them, and complain about not including “those cheap cards” is just plain unappreciative.

just my opinion.

4018

Yep I’m glad I ordered yesterday. But I dunno if they had just 20, because the 360 stick is #2 best sale in Video Games. As I don’t know how much a game has to sell to become #2 I may be mistaken, but I think they had a good number of TE. The regular stick which is closed for pre-order too is #488.

4019

ok… tired of the pics… tryin to get a hold of 2 of the Tournament sticks… connects… contact… please pm asap.

holla

4020

^^ yeah man here here i’m picking up chun pad, TE stick, ST stick so i’m getting the cards anyways