Quote Originally Posted by Milk Thistle View Post
Yeah I hear you about the Japan thing. I spent a lot of time over there and it got me adjusted to the Japanese sticks (mostly sanwa).

When I got home to the US I started preferring Seimitsu stuff. Then the next time I went back to Japan most of the cabs have sanwa, which totally throws my rhythm off since it feels like loose crap compared to seimistu.

It's like you have the setup you prefer at home, and then whatever you encounter in the wild, just sucks when the majority of the machines don't have the hardware you're used too.

And that's just sticks. As far as buttons go, I hate the sanwas, you breath on them and they trigger. Doesn't help that pretty much every machine in Japan uses the damn things.

At this point whenever I play on Happ hardware, it just feels strange. But back in the day I preferred the Happ competitions and the convex buttons, I still have those sticks, but they're giant tanks compared to my Madcatz TEs.

BTW you aren't far off from my arcade days. I'd say 92-98 was the mecca for me where I lived. Multiple arcades who all had the newest fighters, and there was always someone to play. I remember selling Mortal Kombat II code sheets/move lists at Tilt in the mall for 50 cents each. I'd sell a gang of them too, I'd always go up there with a new stack of them. Amazing the stuff you could pull when you had the internet in those early days.
Yeah, it was good times.

Anyway, I'm glad that there is a place for me to go now. I'll check it out. If I like it, I'll keep going, if I don't I wont. But it would be nice to get out to SF on my 2 free sundays per month, lol. I remember practicing MK 2 at home and then stomping ass at the arcade. Am I the only one that took advantage of Shang Tsung's jump kick priority? My brother discovered that and he isn't even into technical things like that. He just plays to play as do I. It was only recently that I've discovered the technical terms for those things. BTW, is it me or do the people who seem to know that terminology best are the worst fighters? My friend knows all of that crap about tiers and everything and I floor him every time. He's never been in tournament play, but still, he studies frames on the net, etc. I just learn the moves and practice on the cpu. The cpu has the most wins over me, so I figure the best way to play is see what they do right and add the human element to knock out the things they do wrong (not blocking on certain moves for one). Not that I purposely try to do it, just that when I took a closer look into how I play, noticed that's how I do things. I'm sure even Daigo loses to the CPU more than he lets on, after all, CPUs don't get intimidated by championship victories