Recent Purchases and Good Finds

Got an open box never used HRAP EX for $65 today. Im pretty dang happy

Picked up a brand new PS3 Rd 1 TE for $75 and a new 360 SE for $20 bucks at Frys today. Gonna give them to my nephews for their birthdays, they seem really hype for SSF4. They also had a bunch of Hori Wii sticks for $30.

Picked up my second asus ā€œevoā€ monitor today off craigslist for $100. It was slightly used, but too good of a deal to pass up.

I didnā€™t buy it to play online. I bought it to get a fully English version of Street Fighter 3 that I could play with my SE. We never had a cab in my area and I never played it not in Japanese (which I donā€™t know).

Just got a like new PS3 eye for 25$.

And what do you mean english SF3?
The one on the anniversary collection for PS2 is different?

Not really sure, all I really did to it so far was just clean it up a bit. Had some rust on the bottom metal plate so just did the best i could to make it nice a clean. Maybe in hopes to sell it to somebody who needs it.

Just bought a BRAND NEW sega vshg. Price was $225.00 shipped and it is a ā€œSā€ revision. Mintā€™s were going for 175-200 in srk for the last week.

nice :slight_smile: ill prob sell mine as well after i try it out unless its too good lol

Move over VSHG and make way for the Imagineer Arcade Stick.

I got this boxed and sealed from eBay. Iā€™d originally intended to use this for its SNES/PCEngine/MegaDrive/NeoGeo PCB, but seeing as the MC Cthulhu supports SNES and PC Engine now, I dunno if Iā€™ll tear it up or not.

There is a cat flipping the V and kicking a soccer ball on the box, so you know this stick means business.

Nothing is sacred to me, so I felt little remorse in tearing off the factory early 90s shrink wrap.

This thing is really odd because itā€™s so tiny, probably smaller than my old NES QuickShot, but it weighs a full 1kg (I checked).

Ships with a separate cable for each system. Outbound connector is standard 15-pin female, so the Neo Geo connector looks like a standard Neo Geo extension cable.

I managed to decipher from the Japanese instructions that you hold Select/Mode when plugging it in to enable 2-button mode for PC Engine, or 3-button mode for Mega Drive. Otherwise it defaults to 6-button, and you canā€™t figure out why Bonk is spazzing out when you hold right to walk.

The stick is actually really responsive, though the buttons are pretty terrible. Stick is a typical membrane ā€œgiant d-padā€ setup with a tiny deadzone. For me this thing is way too small to be very usable, but itā€™s less crappy than I anticipated.

This also came in today. :open_mouth:

http://imgur.com/9gMGcm.jpg

A 2 foot tall corner shelf with black laminate bottom shelf, and 2 tempered glass top shelves, with stainless steel legs.
A 40 inch tall 12x24 tempered glass 5 shelf and black metal legs.
A 3 foot tall 16x36 tempered glass 4 shelf and stainless steel legs.
A 5 foot tall, wire shelf with 5 shelves and black metal legs.

All for $35.

The shelving at Loweā€™s was on super clearance, a single glass shelf was regularly priced at 9.97, on clearance for $1.

I now have a dedicated shelf for my new Asus monitor and PS3 + accessories, another for my PS2 systems and Gamecube, and the big 16x36 to hold my 9 arcade sticks!

Best comment of the day!

My SE doesnā€™t work on the PS2. and the only time I ever got to play it was on Mame at an old adequateness friends house. The Japanese version was the only one they could get to run.

I just picked up a copy today for $5.99. My homeboy is a GM at gamestop, and we did a search for them. Apparently, the only copy in the ENTIRE COMPANY was in okmulgee, OK. Thats a day trip from here. We got the GM of that store to ship it to us.

It was priced 14.99, but they have a promotion going where you get 50% off of original xbox games. With an additional 10% from my edge card, it was only 5.99!!! great condition too

double post, pls delete

I got a brand new sealed mvc2 madcatz stick from some dude on craigslist for $60 last night. I dont even like marvel and didnt need another stick but case is sexay! gonna mod it with different artwork and seimitsuls32 stick! :woot:

Just scored an HFS3 off Amazon.ca for < $40 shipped ($29.99 before taxes and S&H). Itā€™s especially awesome since I was looking yesterday and it was $51.99.

Yay me!

Glad I found it, I just discovered yesterday that my father threw out my lovely gorgeous beautiful old Namco PS1 stick sobbing

If anyone needs a TE stick there is one for 99.99 on ebay without shipping. http://cgi.ebay.com/Street-Fighter-IV-FightStick-Tournament-Edition-XBOX360_W0QQitemZ300360158331QQcmdZViewItemQQptZVideo_Games_Accessories?hash=item45eedc4c7b#shId

Got these from a Buddy of mine who didnā€™t want them any more. Totally free.

Wondering if any mods can be done to em to make em somewhat decent.

^ im pretty sure people have modded those pelicans with great results. the button layout seems a bit awkward, but i think Happ/iL parts are just about drop in. dont quote me on it though.

also, looks like ill be getting a table saw, a bosch 4100-09. gona do a couple projects with it, then i figured iā€™d try my hand at making a stick.

Donating one of the sticks to a friend of mine who doesnt own a stick. He seems to be pretty stoked on it, just ordered a set of Happ parts from lizard lick.

He doesnt post here on SRK so I thought I would post his Good Find for him.
Def, trying to push him to start playing SF more seriously now that I hooked him up with a stick.