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My stick of joy.

Post by 3DOKid » Sun Mar 25, 2007 8:28 pm

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This is surprisingly good, and every game seems to benefit. Not just Street Fighter and Samurai Shodown but the Need For Speed, Road Rash, even Space Hulk. Diagonals - a direction not easily achievable on the original 3DO pad, are significantly easier using this. What that means is Ryus' Hadouken is a piece of cake and getting Gex to jump consistently in the right direction is a breeze.

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It is just like the Ascii stick for the PSX but tailored - just a little - for the 3DO. The click of micro-switches is as reassuring today as it was 13 year ago. It seems to be made to reasonably high standard. The buttons are arcade size but do feel somewhat light and hollow. It doesn't effect their functioning, it just detracts a little from the overall quality.

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It has an expansion slot. Meaning that if you have two, you can experience the nearest thing to Street Fighter II turbo arcade in the comfort of your own lounge.

There is a turbo option, basically, auto fire - I never found a use for this sort of thing but if it floats your boat more power to you.

There are two key layouts allowing comfortable play of both Samurai Shodown and Street Fighter. Both of which use different key combinations you see.

And here it is plugged in.

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Behold brethren. As you can see, I've been using it the Trip always envisaged. 3DO, VCD, Memory module and arcade stick. Operating, entertaining and doing fly bird kicks in perfect unison.

I should also point they aren't hugely expensive either but only if imported.

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Post by triffid_98 » Mon Mar 26, 2007 8:06 am

very cool, looks a lot like the saturn eclipse fighter pad. Now get me those pinouts so you can use this instead...


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Post by 3DOKid » Mon Mar 26, 2007 11:35 am

http://thdo-homebrew.narod.ru/PSX-3DO_J ... verter.htm

this guy must know. All we need is someone who speaks Russian to ping him an email. ...I also think he hangs around on the Freedo board.

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Post by BryWI » Mon Mar 26, 2007 8:33 pm

gimme your joystick.... please? lol

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Post by Lemmi » Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:24 pm

pfft!

here is mine

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Post by 3DOKid » Mon Mar 26, 2007 10:56 pm

That is like is like a military grade joystick surely.

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Post by T2KFreeker » Tue Mar 27, 2007 12:27 am

Damn, I haven';t seen the 3DO Jamma stick in forever. I so need one of those. Played on one awhile back in the day and it is as sweet as it looks. 3DO Kid, your arcade stick looks cool too, nut the Jamma rumes all! 8)
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Post by Lemmi » Tue Mar 27, 2007 4:20 pm

here are 2 pics of the innards of the arcade stick incase anyone was interested :)
i forgot that i could add another 5 feet to the cord if i wanted, but its long enough already

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the grey smudges you see was from the 16+ years that the duct tape was holding down the extra cord
which i now removed and screwed the zip tie to a small block of wood on the inside
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Post by bitrate » Tue Mar 27, 2007 11:03 pm

Well, my stick is much smaller than those, but I am very adept at using it.
Read what you will into that statement.

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It also allows you to use a SNES pad on the 3do.

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Post by 3DOKid » Sun Apr 01, 2007 9:08 am

Bitrate - where did you get that?

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Post by Lemmi » Sun Apr 01, 2007 3:39 pm

3dokid, i got my ROCK3 stick from Video Game Liquidators (vglq) on ebay and from their website, but i havent seen one of them in awhile


the story was i paid $50 on ebay for one and $20 for the other from their website, all in one week

but i sold my 2nd one off for $50, because i was pissed i paid $50 for it to begin with :)
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Post by bitrate » Sun Apr 01, 2007 8:05 pm

The unit in the picture I picked up new at a mom and pop store about 5 years ago. I believe I have another one boxed away that I purchased on Ebay probably two years ago.

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