As long as those cases are EASY to disassemble to paint over the red, it’ll be fine.
I’m more curious to see what is underneath and this new bottom.
Y’all are being tricked by the long horizontal panel, like a guy looking skinnier in a vertical striped shirt. The actual left side distance doesn’t really look any longer than a regular Mad Catz TE or Hori VX. One of my pet peeves with custom sticks is when someone underestimates the space needed for the left hand, and focuses more on making the parts look balanced on the control panel. What’s important is that the hands rest near the center; the left side is equally as long as the right side needs to be to accommodate all of the buttons.
Yo Robo, mind if I post these on my site?
I can just feel these will be overpriced by the time they sell it here in the Philippines
At least the moved the guide area to the right.
I am debating adding this to the “what stick to buy” guide since this is more of a collectors item which I am trying to avoid on the guide.
Ehhh I’m not too impressed. I’d like a stick where I can have a larger more defined artwork than a congested space like in those pics. Overall TE is the best arcade stick I have ever seen yet.
Sleek design, but I wish the slope was sharper to give more space under the buttons. Definitely reminds me of the Qanba Q3 and Q4RAF.
If you don’t like it, then you’d better get a TE as soon as possible if you don’t have one already.
This stick is lookin hot. Doubt the red portion of the stick is anything less than the plastic used on the TE sticks.
If the white, bumpy underbelly is apart of the stick I hope it snugs well when placed on the lap. Like grip material.
It’s definitely a purchase in my book. I’m sure there will be variety in color.
The sign says “Authentic Japanese-style Sanwa Denshi joystick.” In other photos it says “and buttons” but it’s blurry.
Look at the second bullet point.
New stick looks great…I’d like to see more clearly the sides of the stick and back, are the start/select buttons in the same spot as well? seems like they’re creating less surface area on the sides to make lifting the TE easier, or maybe i’m full of it and it’s just for aesthetics.
I’m tweeting about this stick every now and then… If you guys are interested. I can’t make an official post yet.
sticks have a cool design in the bottom O_O
I believe what most of us would like to know is if the design is final, or if it can still change between now and the release of the game (and if community feedback will be taken into consideration).
The design is not final. This was just a stick we had to show for this event (E3).
Awesome. Am now excited to see how the final product shapes up.
EDIT:
And if we’ll see a proper Asian market release for it this time.
Well if there is room for suggestions…
I would like to see the artwork area become removable in the same way that the TE surface is. Nice and easy to swap things around.
Please include two button covers.
Remove the home/turbo panel at least from the top of the stick to a side.
In fact I don’t think many people would mind if you just removed Turbo functionality completely!
I would love it if you just went with a six button layout on the top and placed the triggers on the right and left, and then the start select and home on the front side so as to keep the play area clean.
Anyway…
Thanks for any consideration!
I’m pretty sure Home and Turbo can be locked anyhow. Position of the panel shouldn’t be an issue as long as we have that.
Now I have to buy four of these. €>^}}>£><|#€,££~
I just always think that when these large run sticks are produced how cool it would be if the play area was like that of most high end customs.
Clean and functional.
So many manufacturers ( Hori, QanBa, MadCatz, Joytron) just keep putting stuff ( turbo, start, select…) on the faces of these things.
Yes a person can always “just get used to it” or disconnect wires, dremel, drill, remove, replace, and plug (or sometimes use a locking function) but why not just eliminate those extras out of harms way to begin with?
I would think that any company could look at pages from the “Check out my new arcade stick on SRK” and get a pretty clear idea of what we players want and what works. I mean we are already buying THEIR products AND then buying MORE parts …hahaha, basically I think we make it painfuly obvious in what we want from a good arcade quality piece of equipment.
Don’t get me wrong I mean making customs is fun and all but why doesn’t one of the big companies take a nod from what we like to do in the building/modding community?
It just seems odd that they don’t? …
( Though the QanBa Q3 sticks came really really really close, as did the MadCatz TE line. )
^ If you only understood business/retailer relationships and license partnerships that go into these things.