Thread O' Custom Sticks

[Mzo]

All stick art should be like the KI2 arcade machine, where it looks like you're playing with that cave guy's wang.

[GohanX]

That last pic is funny, but I don't think I'll use it.

I got the stick today and it's great, although not quite perfect. I really like the feel of the Seimitsu stick. My Sanwa stick is a bit too loose, my Happ is too tight, while the Seimitsu finds a good middle ground where I find it to be precise, but it doesn't tire my hand after an extended time. It has a square gate though, and I'm not crazy about square gates for fighting games, but is the best joystick I've ever used for shooters. I might swap the stick out for a Semitsu octagonal stick since they don't seem to make an octagonal gate for the 32. I'm also thinking about ditching two of the buttons and rearranging the ones that are there.

Anyway, here are a few covers I've designed, let me know what you guys think. I redid the Garou one, it's mostly the same but I took Grant out. I want to try some shooter art, but I'm not finding much. High res SF4 art is plentiful though, which is why everything is SF based.

[Cowdisease]

The Garou one is the best, in terms of both art and design. I'm not a huge fan of button holes overlapping a giant art piece.

If you want a Seimitsu with an octagon gate, go with a LS-56. I have it in my SF4 TE stick and I really like it.

[Grave]

I agree with Cowdisease. Pretty much any of those would be better than the HD Remix one though!

[GohanX]

Yeah, I thought the picture looked awesome, but when put on the stick it was kind of blah. I have a lot of really awesome pictures that just don't go well when I stick them in the template, and I'd rather have one large full bleed image than a bunch of smaller images pasted on a background.

If I go with Garou, I don't actually have to play the 360 version do I? I don't even have the 360 version, lol. I may have to put it on my MAS Neo Geo stick.

[wip3outguy7]

Been done for awhile but:

[SpoDaddy]

Grave and I are polar opposites when it comes to stick art. I dig the HD Remix one.

[sixteen-bit]

Been done for awhile but:

nice sanwa modded Namco stick

I've always wanted one of those things (well, stock though).

[Yoshi]

Grave and I are polar opposites when it comes to stick art.

That's the biggest compliment you could pay him.

[FirstBlood]

So it's a good thing I impulse-bought that new TE stick, because the joystick PCB just blew out on my modded SE. Just all of a sudden while playing, the joystick stopped working. Every button still works, just the stick is dead. Opened it up, fiddled with the connectors, and everything was still in place.

I looked it up on the SRK tech boards and it seems to have happened to a number of people. It sucks, but I was planning on moving on to the TE anyways, so I'll live. Plus I can salvage the stick and buttons for another stick project, or just drop a madcatz controller PCB in there if I really want to.