Wow...Nuby released Street fighter Stick Happ Edition!

[minmao]

Maybe just old news. Just opened the streetfightercontroller.com by a accident click from playasia, then I suddenly see this.
$90 dollar is a little bit too tight, but those happ parts will cost you some money if you buy directly from Happ (as a matter of fact, i ordered my parts from happ, since I was afraid to get used parts from ebay or other buyers)

And this is an official product with real arcade parts. I guess it is a must have item for real street fighter fan to collect. It will be more valuable years later than a happ-modded official stick. (and people used to pay 100 for that stupid x-arcade stick with baolian parts)

[FMJaguar]

This does not seem like an official nuby item. Considering that the paypal address is someone's name (P. Chen?) and it's not fully working, it seems like he's modding them himself. I'll try to get some confirmation either way, but IMO it's not a bad deal if it's legit and working eventually.

DreamTR works(ed?) for nuby and IIRC he was selling 2 paks of sticks for $60, and one modded stick for $80. I don't know if they are out tho.

[SaBrE]

nubytech went under. dreamtr works for pelican now. but hes helping sell off the remainder of the anniversary sticks. we had like 100 of them at MWC. selling for cheap. and there were some that he said he was getting modded with happ parts and selling that. its not really official nubytech..

[FMJaguar]

ha no wonder the guile pad was so cheap. I wonder if there will be modded nuby's at evo.

[qwazy]

Where/how can I get into contact with Dream for the sticks?

Modded Anni sticks are solid.

[DreamTR]

P. Chen is/was the President of NubyTech.

www.hotgamestuff.com is legitimate. All of the remaining NubyTech inventory was sold to Hotgamestuff.com. Hotgamestuff.com is basically Chen and myself. These are official (with Happ parts) but they have to be special ordered and take 2 weeks. We have been having some issues with PayPal, but it is legitimate.

Between moving the remnants of NUbyTech around, and dealing with random shipping for Hotgamestuff/NubyTech, the PayPal account should be back up and running soon.

We are also looking into 360 versions of the SF stick.

Happ sticks for $89.99 are not a bad deal. This is for TWO systems. PS2 and XBOX. Nearest competitors charge $99.99 for ONE system. If you order the parts separately, they run you around $25-28 with shipping for the parts ALONE.

[SaBrE]

dream isnt going to evo. so no sticks will be available there. unless he hooked up with someone to sell for him, but i doubt it

[final_cut]

wow, that is a good deal, I don't mind playing on happ modded sticks at all. Personally, I hate having to mod those things, because of that glue inside! I almost just threw mine out because after 3 buttons, I wanted to quit working on it.
anyway, its good news about those sticks, I paid a good bit for one when it came out originally.

[AcEtUrNeDjOkEr]

P. Chen is/was the President of NubyTech.

www.hotgamestuff.com is legitimate. All of the remaining NubyTech inventory was sold to Hotgamestuff.com. Hotgamestuff.com is basically Chen and myself. These are official (with Happ parts) but they have to be special ordered and take 2 weeks. We have been having some issues with PayPal, but it is legitimate.

Between moving the remnants of NUbyTech around, and dealing with random shipping for Hotgamestuff/NubyTech, the PayPal account should be back up and running soon.

We are also looking into 360 versions of the SF stick.

Happ sticks for $89.99 are not a bad deal. This is for TWO systems. PS2 and XBOX. Nearest competitors charge $99.99 for ONE system. If you order the parts separately, they run you around $25-28 with shipping for the parts ALONE.

When do you think the 360 versions are going to be available?

[BigEd80]

Would have been nice if they had used competition sticks instead of Ultimate.

[DreamTR]

Competition Sticks woul raise the cost, that's why he opted away from those.


360 Sticks availability and price still being worked on.

[NiteWalker]

Competition Sticks woul raise the cost, that's why he opted away from those.


How would comp sticks raise the price? Where I get my comp sticks they are within pennies of ultimates and supers. I think that was a poor decision seeing as how the ultimates are the most poorly designed of all the happ sticks. This will most surely affect sales. Had comp sticks and buttons been put in there then you'd have the new stick hotness. Happ comp out of the box with no modding necessary FTW.

EDIT:
Comp buttons are in there. My bad.

[FMJaguar]

Happ Sticks are discounted to $7 or so at times, supers and ultimates do this every 6-12 months, competitions rarely if ever go on sale, i've never seem them on sale.

IIRC the ultimates were the official SF arcade machine joystick anyway, and a couple players do prefer them. By and large people do prefer competition for their customs, but again, that's more because thats what we preach, from what i've seen most people don't play too differently on ultimate vs comp.

[Cowdisease]

Competition Sticks woul raise the cost, that's why he opted away from those.While the statement is factual, it's surprising that you would settle for a lesser joystick considering that the better Competition sticks are only $3.05 more expensive.

According to Happcontrols.com.

Ultimate Joystick, 8-way, Microswitch, Black Knob: $10.90
Competition Joystick, 8-way, Microswitch, Black Knob: $13.95

If cost was an issue, then just add $5 to the price of the Happ-modded SFAC sticks.

Unless of course you guys already ordered the Ultimate sticks, in which I would say that you should have thought this more thoroughly if you were going to sell Happ-modded sticks.

EDIT: Just read your post FMJ about the Ultimate sticks. To each their own, I suppose. I was under the impression that Competition sticks were better than Ultimates.

[metrock1]

Its all preference when it comes to sticks. For me it depends on wich game also. I prefer perfect 360s with any game, second to that I like ultimates for mvc2 and comps for any other SF game when p360s are not around. Well then there are jap sticks but thats a whole other bundle of worms with these anny sticks.

[NiteWalker]

Browse through the first post here:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=47066.0
Happ comp and super sticks: $7.90. All the time.
Happ ultimate: $8.50
He's a Happ distributor so he carries the entire Happ line. Again, to any builders, avoid happ directly. There are enough sellers elsewhere that won't leave a nasty overpriced shipping taste in your mouth. Not to mention they're much cheaper.

Are you sure on the ultimates being in sf cabs, FMJ? It's been a while for me but I remember most of the CPS-2 games I played having comp sticks. I could be wrong though. It's been a while.

Yeah I guess it really boils down to what you're used to playing on. Personally I can't stand ultimates. There's an ultimate in the 8-in-1 SF machine at my mall and I can execute next to nothing. They just seem less responsive IMHO. Maybe I'll pick up an ultimate to re-evaluate it.

[7 5 0]

DreamTR, I'm interested in purchasing the Happ edition. However, you said there's issues going on with Paypal, when is it convenient for me to make this purchase?

I need an arcade stick ASAP thx.

[7 5 0]

On second thought, I'll just buy the $60 stock version stick and purchase the comp joystick and comp buttons separately for cheaper. Do you sell these separately?

Because I always hated the ultimate stick. the design and feel of it makes me sick.

[Stonehands]

I have been scouring the web looking for a HAPP edition SF anniversary stick. Please let me know when I can purchase one of the remaining HAPP editions so i do not have to go through the trouble of modding them myself. Thanks so much.

[Cowdisease]

I have been scouring the web looking for a HAPP edition SF anniversary stick. Please let me know when I can purchase one of the remaining HAPP editions so i do not have to go through the trouble of modding them myself. Thanks so much.Send DreamTR a PM and let them know that buying from hotgamestuff.com is broken.

[ShinJN]

Back in the days, all they used for SF machines were Ultimate sticks. Hell, even all those awesome joysticks that came out for the SNES when SF2WW was released used Ultimate joysticks. Good stuff.

Not quite sure when 360s and Comps came out, but I think around the beginning of the Alpha series was when cabs started using the circular base joysticks.

[juddz]

360 Sticks availability and price still being worked on.

As in Perfect 360 or X-Box 360?

[Dracula_X]

P360

[J0hnick]

(Puts on Alucard voice)

"Im interested in this"

[EastX]

I mod these sticks for Xbox 360 with whatever non-optical parts ya want... I don't do it the ghetto Gamers Reports way, either. ~ ~

[CptMunta]

A bit off topic,

But I was wondering the if there are any differences between the PS2 and Xbox control pads. Since the price difference of 10 bucks between each version.

[J0hnick]

Is the payment system fixed on the site yet ?, I dont want to update my PayPal unless Im gonna buy something.

[EastX]

The PS2 pad uses much better parts than the Xbox pad. I'm not saying the Xbox pad is worthless (though some have), but don't go in with high expectations. Still, they're all very pretty to look at. :wgrin:

[Iron Z]

Sorry to resurrect the thread, but as someone here has ties to HotGameStuff, can they give me any info on shipping to the UK?

I cant find any info on the site about it....

Iron Z

[J0hnick]

Sorry to resurrect the thread, but as someone here has ties to HotGameStuff, can they give me any info on shipping to the UK?

I cant find any info on the site about it....

Iron Z

Id like to know this as well.

[Iron Z]

DreamTR, you about?

[xX_Deus_Xx]

DreamTR: not to berate you, but seeing as you work(ed) for nuby, how could you possibly let those guys make those god-awful buttons on the anniversary stick. i mean if you had no control over that then whatever, but of course you play street fighter yourself, and we ALL KNOW those buttons are shit. "happ style" my ass. the only thing those buttons have in common with happs is that they're convex.

[EastX]

He didn't run the show... Now he works for Pelican. Says a 360 sticks is coming sometime, but it won't use arcade quality parts either. Hopefully it'll be suitable for modding at least!

[sanjay]

xX_Deus_Xx so they dont use happ buttons then? it does say it uses 8 happ competition push buttons on the site im confused now, wot are these convex stuff ur on about there?

[FMJaguar]

xX_Deus_Xx so they dont use happ buttons then? it does say it uses 8 happ competition push buttons on the site im confused now, wot are these convex stuff ur on about there?

He's talking about the original stick, the buttons are not close to the happs most people use, although i think they are close to a certain pushbutton, the one with the vertical switch, it has a longer travel, and is kinda tough to press, similar to the SF stick.

I do agree with the intent of the original post that it's not an optimal button, but considering that maybe a few hundred people care, and that most of them have sticks they are happy with already, I doubt the demand was big enough to justify any increase in cost.

[shin0bi]

I was thinking about getting one of these. Is it really that big of a differences ? I tried to send an email but i never got a reply so make me wonder if i should even buy it from the website.

[EastX]

Happ buttons are way, way better than the stock buttons. They feel great.

[shin0bi]

I'm trying to find a good arcade stick, I know the hori arcade stick is a good one, but I need one that i can play on the xbox. There are converters but they say only magic box is the best one out there and I can't find any. Sorry on piggybacking on this thread.

[CigarBoB]

let me just say this. You will not have to worry about any of these sticks not being up to par. The sticks and the buttons are great and I for one cant say enough about the person doing the upgrading of them. you will not be disapointed if you order one.

Not to mention it works great for xbox live, if you like american sticks that is.

[shin0bi]

Do you have the regular one or the Happs edition ?

[CigarBoB]

Shinobi - I am actually doing the modding of the sticks. So i can vouch for the sticks being top-notch. Hell I play on every single one to make sure they are in good working order.

[AmbiguousCrosup]

With the future inclusion of a P360 version does that mean that a usable +5 was found?

[Iron Z]

CigarBob, if you are the one doing the modding can you PLEASE tell us / ask someone who knows if you ship to the UK!

there is no international shipping info i can find on your website (someoen else asked up above, too...)

bear in mind that a Hori RAP in a store here costs approximately $280 US, and you see why many UK people would import from the USA if the shipping was reasonable....

[shin0bi]

I can't seem to get in touch with anybody from hotgamestuff. Anybody know who i can contact for info about the happs edition ?

[CigarBoB]

I know that dream theater (jason wilson) is shipping 2 sticks to the uk out of the first batch that i moded. So yes you can get shippping. you can msg him here on SRK at dreamtr but I dont know if he checks his PM's to often.

I will drop him an email and let him know that you are looking for it and direct him to this thread.

[shin0bi]

Thanks i've been wasting quarters away at the arcade and want to get a stick so i can practice. How long does it take to get the sticks ?

[CigarBoB]

Turn time right now s 3-4 weeks just as it is stated on the web site at www.hotgamestuff.com

[FMJaguar]

For the ultimate stick is it normal or hard spring?

[CigarBoB]

it was going to be hard spring but Happ screwed up and only sent up normal. So normal it is.

[shin0bi]

I guess i'll order one, Do you do the modding Cigar ?

[final_cut]

He already said a few posts up that he does the modding.

[sanjay]

what is the resistance difference from the hard spring compared to the Happ normal ones? percentage wise...

and would you say that the Happ hard spring are better to play with then the Happ normal ones.

[J0hnick]

Didnt Arcadestickmonk keep the original Bao-Lin spring from the Anniversary stick cause it was harder then the Happ one ?.

[Cowdisease]

Didnt Arcadestickmonk keep the original Bao-Lin spring from the Anniversary stick cause it was harder then the Happ one ?.Yes, he did. I did the same with my SFAC mod because I liked the feel of the harder spring.

[J0hnick]

it was going to be hard spring but Happ screwed up and only sent up normal. So normal it is.

Cigar: If I was to order a stick, would you use the Bao-lin spring instead of the Happ ? (for reasons mentioned above).

[CigarBoB]

Cigar: If I was to order a stick, would you use the Bao-lin spring instead of the Happ ? (for reasons mentioned above).

no!!!!!

[randomscrublols]

Ordered one of the Happ modded PS2 sticks around the 1st of Oct, looking forward to playing on it.

[sanjay]

i received the 2 sticks that i ordred from jason, P&P to uk was $100 and $180 for 2 sticks. Price may seem very high to americans but it cost £79.99 brand new normal edition from www.amazon.co.uk and getting it off jason cost me £97 for 1 happ d edition stick.

I'm very happy with he stick works perfect on the xbox, but when i play on the ps2 during a game, its disconnects, and i have to unplug the pad and put it back in to get it running agian, strange problem. any input on how i could fix this?

[DreamTR]

Hey sanjay: I am not sure if that has anything to do with you running it a PAL system or not....are both sticks doing this, or just one?

As far as INTL shipping goes, we ship via DHL INTL Express ONLY. Safer for the Buyer and seller. If you are INTL, it's basically $20 in the USA for one stick, and $75 anywhere else (includes Canada).


Deus: It's all about parts. In order to produce for mass market, you have to find a factory willing to "create" a button similar so the parts can be produced for mass market. Around 22,000 of these sticks were produced, which makes for over 160,000 buttons, which can be pretty high in cost if you aren't careful. The buttons are what you said, convex and only Happ like in that sense, unlike the Happ Special Edition stick which contains real Happ parts. The SFAE stick for what it is is still very functional.

We are actually LOWERING prices on the refurbished ones soon.


If anyones has any specific questions, please email me at: jason@hotgamestuff.com

[sanjay]

DreamTR yeah its on a pal system, and its just my sticks that i know of, have to ask my friend to see if he got the same problem.

very strange problem, it works perfect on the xbox

[randomscrublols]

edit:: problem fixed, cord compartment under the stick that I seem to have overlooked lol.