Thanks for helping me find a Hori Real Arcade Pro EX SE!
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!
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!
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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.
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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 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.
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?
BTW: Can you use this stick with a PS3 or your computer since it's USB?
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I have just modded my Xbxox SFIV SE with a seimitsu LS-32-01 and Sanwa buttons and it's lovely.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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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http://www.shopncsx.com/realarcadeproexjoystick-1.aspx
It is slated for an early July 2009 release according to NCSX.
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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.
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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.
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! 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.
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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...
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For agustusx,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.
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.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.
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i need to find a good stick custom shop...
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. ^_~
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