arcade joystick for pc

davidtan · 4 Jan 2011 at 22:18

I'm trying to find a reasonably priced UK seller of an arcade type joystick for pc for some retro gaming... does anyone know where I might be able to get one? The online auction site has quite a few but they're all out in the far east.

Sinny · 4 Jan 2011 at 23:59

Make one, it's quite fun.

Mine is built like a tank so it can take good abuse, all in all including the SANWA buttons, stick, box, xbox controller cost me around £70.

I'd check out Kreeeee's thread if you're interested.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17994446&highlight=arcade

Margaret · 5 Jan 2011 at 00:00

Can pick up the Street Fighter IV TE edition sticks for very reasonable prices now, albeit somewhat hard to find. (well they were, not checked recently)

barmyllama · 5 Jan 2011 at 00:22

As far as I know the SF IV TE stick doesn't work on PC unless you get the PS3 version AND your USB chipset is Intel or VIA. Apparently the Xbox 360 SF IV TE Arcade stick doesn't work on PC.

Or you buy one of these add in cards.

USB 5 Port PCI Card/Cardbus (4 External 1 Internal) - VIA Chipset

Has to be VIA chipset.

Margaret · 5 Jan 2011 at 02:12

barmyllama said:
As far as I know the SF IV TE stick doesn't work on PC unless you get the PS3 version AND your USB chipset is Intel or VIA. Apparently the Xbox 360 SF IV TE Arcade stick doesn't work on PC.

Or you buy one of these add in cards.

USB 5 Port PCI Card/Cardbus (4 External 1 Internal) - VIA Chipset

Has to be VIA chipset.

The 360 version is the best version to get as not only does it work flawlessly on PC it also works regardless of what chipset your USB is.

It's detected as a 360 controller and works off the bat in Vista and 7.

Gimpymoo · 5 Jan 2011 at 02:48

Sinny said:
Make one, it's quite fun.

Mine is built like a tank so it can take good abuse, all in all including the SANWA buttons, stick, box, xbox controller cost me around £70.

I'd check out Kreeeee's thread if you're interested.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17994446&highlight=arcade

I think I will give that a go

barmyllama · 5 Jan 2011 at 08:01

Margaret said:
The 360 version is the best version to get as not only does it work flawlessly on PC it also works regardless of what chipset your USB is.

It's detected as a 360 controller and works off the bat in Vista and 7.

Wonder why I bought a PS3 one then. Can't think for the life me why. I was convincef the Xbox 360 version didn't work on PC, but there's no logical reason why it shouldn't.

Ah well, sorry for the misinformation.

Margaret · 5 Jan 2011 at 18:29

barmyllama said:
Wonder why I bought a PS3 one then. Can't think for the life me why. I was convincef the Xbox 360 version didn't work on PC, but there's no logical reason why it shouldn't.

Ah well, sorry for the misinformation.

My second TE (to replace my dead 360 one) was also PS3 and guess what? I had just bought an i5 setup so it didn't work on USB! Waheyyyy.

It was ok though, I got it dual modded to work on 360 and PS3 now so I just set it to 360 mode for PC. PS3 stuff is always more fiddly I find!

barmyllama · 5 Jan 2011 at 18:52

I must have bought it with the intention of using it for Tekken on my PS3 and never bothered buying it.

I did get it working on my PC though, had to buy a PCI USb card with a VIA chipset to get it to work properly though.

Sold it now.