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    Default Hori Fighter Stick SS Saturn. Opinions please.

    I'm looking at some Saturn sticks to play shmups, fighters and arcade ports and this one keeps popping up (Hori being usually good quality stuff). Before I go ahead and buy one I thought I'd ask for some opinions about it or even other, perhaps better options. I can grab a CIB new one for about $45... so, is it worthwhile at that price? Or is there greener pastures to graze @ $45?

    I searched google already and all I got was a list of Saturn controllers where it was included in the list and nothing more.
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    It's a good stick... It's the same stick as the Hori Fighter Stick PS...

    If your game requires only three buttons however I would suggest the VF Real Arcade Hori stick... it looks like this:



    Just my two cents though...

    IMO the buttons/stick are of higher quality on the Real Arcade VF (it is the same stick pretty much as the Tekken 3 Hori for PS and the T4/SC2 arcade stick for PS2)...
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    It's junk, Get a MAS Pro or an XArcade and use an adapter.

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    If you're really serious I'd get something custom with Seimitsu or Sanwa parts. There's a few peoples on this vast interweb that make some absolutely beautiful custom sticks. Or you could take an existing stick and replace the stock parts with decent ones. I used to have a Saturn Virtua Stick, the white Japanese one (HSS-0136 iirc), and that'd be a decen stick to mod.

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    The blank XArcade base with custom parts sounds good. Bigger investment on the front end but I can eat that up and then some with the system adapters. It would be nice to finally have a stick without the damn microswitches and a cluncky assed joystick. With MarkMan's recommendation I think I could see spending $20-$25 for one (the VF stick seems a perfect fit for VF2)... point is, I can wait.

    I guess I'll side with patience for now and work tward a better overall solution. Thanks for the input folks. Much appreciated.


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    I haven't used the Hori stick but I do own a white Virtua Stick with another on the way. While I'm no expect on arcade sticks by any means, I find it to feel nice although it gets dirty rather easy.

    I'm sure people who take arcade sticks more seriously will say otherwise but I like it.

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    It seems as though you're leaning into the custom direction, which is what I'd suggest unless one of those sticks just appears at the right time.
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