Is it worth to buy used Mad Catz Fightstick PRO for Xbox 360 for 113$?

[Ditex89]

If not, do you know any good fighting stick that I can easily buy in Poland for around 100$ (shipping included)? It's gonna be my first fightstick.

[Dashiell]

So I just found reddit version http://i.imgur.com/8dsdvpL.jpg
It says that VX=V3 which means that it's great safe bet.

Początkowo opublikowane przez Ditex89:

The Fightstick PRO is at the bottom of this list and despite that this guy https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=275142463 gives it an A+. He didn't do any tests, but he used this fightstick for a quite long time, and just by normally using it he can give it his reccomendation. That's what i'm looking for. Reviews based not on tests, but on everyday playing. I think they'll be more real.

One guy saying something doesn't mean crap, you can search for all bottom tier sticks on amazon and find most of them with 5 stars because saying "it's good because I think so" has no value that's why test are needed so there is empirical data to support theory, especially when sticks are hard to get and expensive.
These guides are only good for quick check on stick's parts + price, the rest is up to real detailed reviews and tests.

[Bert]

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If not, do you know any good fighting stick that I can easily buy in Poland for around 100$ (shipping included)? It's gonna be my first fightstick.

I can tell you that these are all fine.
Anybody who tells you that only Sanwa is the deal are idiot trolls who never gave the competition any chance.
You can see the same on the Keyboard market since about 2 years ago. Nobody uses Cherry anymore at this point in time. It's only a premium for the brand and nothing else.
All the good players i met over the time got a Seimitsu, Hori or Gamerfinger custom mix for some unexplainable reason.

Here i got a link for you. It's the most complete guide on hardware and how to mod/install things.

http://www.slagcoin.com/joystick.html

Anybody who reffers you to other newer guides just wants to force an oppinion on you. Here is the raw data.

[Brandon]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Bert_Z:

Anybody who tells you that only Sanwa is the deal are idiot trolls who never gave the competition any chance.

I don't think anyone here has said that. Sanwas are the most common high-quality, therefore the easiest to find for a good price.

Also Hori kuro buttons are crap. They've recently made a new one that isn't out yet to replace the kuros.

Początkowo opublikowane przez Bert_Z:

Anybody who reffers you to other newer guides just wants to force an oppinion on you. Here is the raw data.

That sounds like an opinion....

[Brandon]

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I've asked the seller and that Hori is from 2012, from amazon, if this can help somehow. The stick was used only a few times from that time, and the only visible sign of using are some little scratches on the front panel (he says they were made when he was removing dust from the stick to take photos, but i'm not sure if this is the truth.) The seller also provided me more photos, one of them is a zoom at these scratches and they don't look very bad. Should I ask him for something else? I think this is the stick I would like to buy.

I can't answer that, I don't know if the scratch bothers you. You might be able to find someone who can laser cut a new plexiglass top panel for you. Or maybe someone sells the already made who could ship to you for a fair price.

[Dashiell]

Well, theoretically PS3/4 controllers have no obligation to work on PC which uses xbox drivers. For sticks it seems like some work some don't, differs from game to game.

[Brandon]

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Początkowo opublikowane przez Punymeyer:

I can't answer that, I don't know if the scratch bothers you. You might be able to find someone who can laser cut a new plexiglass top panel for you. Or maybe someone sells the already made who could ship to you for a fair price.

I've found a new big problem. I want to buy a fightstick that will work with the SFV on PC. http://steamcommunity.com/app/386800/discussions/0/490123938430020183/#p2
Here someone says, that the Hori RAP V3-SA doesn't work very well with it. Punymeyer, you said earlier, that you have Hori RAP V3-SA Kai. Does it work with SFV beta, or is this going to be fixed after release? What do you think?

My V3-SA Kai isn't supported in SFV. The list of devices SFV supports seems to be questionably small right now, so I'm thinking they will add more to it before launch. But they haven't said anything about it, so that is only speculation. I use Xpadder to play SFV right now. If my stick isn't supported at launch, I will make a batch file that launched the game and Xpadder when used, and closes Xpadder when the game closes, that way everything is automatic. If you get something that isn't supported, I can give you that batch file to use.

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Well, theoretically PS3/4 controllers have no obligation to work on PC which uses xbox drivers. For sticks it seems like some work some don't, differs from game to game.

Actually, Windows default drivers are the generic HID USB device drivers. I have a stick with a zero delay encoder PCB that uses these drivers and it shows up as a USB gamepad. Sadly, SFV doesn't even support those devices right now, which is basically the baseline for what devices a game should support. Xrd supports it right out of the box, as does every other fighter I've tried on Steam. Currently, SFV controller support is abysmal.

And the V3-SA works on PC out of the box, even better than its 360 counterpart, the VX-SA.

[Dashiell]

You're using custom PCB which was made to work specifically on PS3 and PC, unfortunately for branded controllers they either use xinput or dinput (or both in some cases) because sony and ms hate each other and love exclusivity so it's up to developers to add support to dinput devices on windows.

[Brandon]

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You're using custom PCB which was made to work specifically on PS3 and PC, unfortunately for branded controllers they either use xinput or dinput (or both in some cases) because sony and ms hate each other and love exclusivity so it's up to developers to add support to dinput devices on windows.

No I'm not, I'm using the stock PCB that is in the V3-SA Kai. I have a different stick with the zero delay encoder installed.

The V3 isn't even marketed as a PC stick, but it has Windows drivers built in. It's plug and play on PC.

[Brandon]

I should also point out that the Hori shows up as "RAP N3." Idk if it uses the N3 PCB or if they just recycled the driver.