Thanks for helping me find a Hori Real Arcade Pro EX SE!

corbie · Post by **corbie** » Thu May 14, 2009 6:16 am

Wow, I wish I had known this earlier. My EX-SE stick is at the post office here and I'm going to go pick it up in the morning. I got it from Rinkya and the Yahoo Japan Auctions. Nice mods guys. I'm going to install some Sanwa OBSF-30 buttons on this stick soon as I prefer the Sanwa buttons to go along with the Seimitsu stick.

EDIT: Got the stick this morning. FINALLY own an HRAP EX-SE. I'm loving it so far. I want to thank all of you who offered advice and pointed me to Rinkya. No way I would have gotten one of these without your help!

LuckyDay · Post by **LuckyDay** » Thu May 14, 2009 8:53 pm

so what was the final total price? And how long did it take?

corbie · Post by **corbie** » Thu May 14, 2009 9:17 pm

Took about 2 weeks in total from bid until I got it today. I won it on the 1st. And the price was ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. The fee was only $40 for Rinkya but the shipping was $117.23 via EMS. All told it set me back $387.23. And I know, crazy to pay that much, but I really wanted it and I just would have blown the money on another PCB.

neist · Post by **neist** » Thu May 14, 2009 9:33 pm

corbie wrote:Took about 2 weeks in total from bid until I got it today. I won it on the 1st. And the price was ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. The fee was only $40 for Rinkya but the shipping was $117.23 via EMS. All told it set me back $387.23. And I know, crazy to pay that much, but I really wanted it and I just would have blown the money on another PCB.

Geez, man. Well, I hope you enjoy it at that price.

Nothing is too expensive if you're willing to pay for it and you have the money, I say.

corbie · Post by **corbie** » Thu May 14, 2009 9:38 pm

Yeah I guess. But I'd still have liked to have gotten in on one of these when the price was lower. I did replace the Siemitsu buttons with Sanwa buttons as you can see below. I might replace the black buttons with white ones and a white joystick ball eventually.

BTW: Can you use this stick with a PS3 or your computer since it's USB?

LuckyDay · Post by **LuckyDay** » Thu May 14, 2009 10:31 pm

You can use it with a PC on the 360 usb cable.

You can mod it for use with the PS3 with a cthulhu board. I did it with my SFIV SE and it's pretty easy.

corbie · Post by **corbie** » Thu May 14, 2009 10:36 pm

Thanks for the info LuckyDay.

And sweet EX stick Wavey Pavey!

Hibachi · Post by **Hibachi** » Fri May 15, 2009 8:59 am

LuckyDay wrote:You can use it with a PC on the 360 usb cable.

You can mod it for use with the PS3 with a cthulhu board. I did it with my SFIV SE and it's pretty easy.

I have just modded my Xbxox SFIV SE with a seimitsu LS-32-01 and Sanwa buttons and it's lovely.

In a slight follow on, is there a way to get this stick to work on a PS2 as I do not own a PS3.

LuckyDay · Post by **LuckyDay** » Fri May 15, 2009 4:59 pm

the MC-Cthulhu can be modded to work with the PS2.

My stick is PS3/PS2/360.

You can also just dual mod it with the current pcb (for 360) and a PS2 pcb.

Then you'll have 360 and PS2, and you can just buy a PS2>PS3 adapter if you ever want to use it on PS3.

Animaitor · Post by **Animaitor** » Tue May 19, 2009 4:38 pm

Welcome to the club corbie, but damn, $387.23 is way too much money. If you are happy and can afford it, is all cool

corbie · Post by **corbie** » Wed May 20, 2009 8:49 am

The shipping really kicked it up on me. I knew the $40 fee was coming, but I didn't take into account that the stick was fairly weighty. So my expectation of about $40 jumped up to three times that. It was a crazy amount of money, but I wanted that stick and I wanted it bad.

So I looked at it this way. If I'm crazy enough to spend $800-$900 on a PCB kit, I might as well spend $400 on a joystick.

PC Engine Fan X! · Post by **PC Engine Fan X!** » Wed May 20, 2009 4:07 pm

NCSX is accepting pre-orders for the re-release of the XBox 360 RAP EX variant with a $139.95 USD price tag:

http://www.shopncsx.com/realarcadeproexjoystick-1.aspx

It is slated for an early July 2009 release according to NCSX.

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

corbie · Post by **corbie** » Wed May 20, 2009 9:15 pm

I got all the buttons changed out and the ball stick today. Here is the EX-SE with Sanwa OSBF-30 buttons and a Sanwa white joystick ball. Turned out alright.

agustusx · Post by **agustusx** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 2:09 pm

I've not been able to use sites like rinkya or shopping mall japan successfully. Either I can't find anything or the connections time out. akihabarashop doesn't seem to stock 360 controllers anymore. So Since I can't get the HRAP SE, its time for me to be more realistic and get something better than I have.

PC Engine Fan X! wrote:NCSX is accepting pre-orders for the re-release of the XBox 360 RAP EX variant with a $139.95 USD price tag:

http://www.shopncsx.com/realarcadeproexjoystick-1.aspx

It is slated for an early July 2009 release according to NCSX.

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

Can anyone confirm if this is a 4 gate stick? Someone mentioned it was on play-asia. If its a 4 gate stick it probably would work out just fine for me. When it comes to shmups my biggest complaint about my Hori EX2 is that its entirely too easy to push a diagonal. I'm not a modder so thats out the door. Besides I want to keep the EX2 for fighters anyway.

i need to find a good stick custom shop...

PC Engine Fan X! · Post by **PC Engine Fan X!** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 12:56 pm

agustusx wrote:I've not been able to use sites like rinkya or shopping mall japan successfully. Either I can't find anything or the connections time out. akihabarashop doesn't seem to stock 360 controllers anymore. So Since I can't get the HRAP SE, its time for me to be more realistic and get something better than I have.

PC Engine Fan X! wrote:NCSX is accepting pre-orders for the re-release of the XBox 360 RAP EX variant with a $139.95 USD price tag:

http://www.shopncsx.com/realarcadeproexjoystick-1.aspx

It is slated for an early July 2009 release according to NCSX.

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~
Can anyone confirm if this is a 4 gate stick? Someone mentioned it was on play-asia. If its a 4 gate stick it probably would work out just fine for me. When it comes to shmups my biggest complaint about my Hori EX2 is that its entirely too easy to push a diagonal. I'm not a modder so thats out the door. Besides I want to keep the EX2 for fighters anyway.

i need to find a good stick custom shop...

For agustusx,

If this Hori XBox 360 RAP EX does come shipped with a square gate, then it will suit your XBox 360 shmups needs quite perfectly (unless you prefer the octogonal style gate style kind which is more suited for the fighting games). It'd just be a matter of unscrewing the bottom of the XBox 360 RAP EX's base and checking to see if it does have a square gate in place or not. If not, then one will have to be ordered and installed. ^_~

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

Wavey Pavey · Post by **Wavey Pavey** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 6:38 pm

It does have a square gate