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I was looking around at the video games floor at Techno Mart in Seoul, and I went to the Korean GameStop of sorts, or at least the closest thing they have. It's called Game Woori.
Anyway, they had several units of this Korean-made PS2 arcade stick for sale. I am not kidding, they were asking 5,500 won for these (less than $5.50), so I knew we were talking major horrible crap when I bought this. I bought it out of sheer morbid curiosity, and also because I'm real pissed at my Neo Stick 3.
I got it home and out of the box, and the build quality is quite bad. Particle board with fake wood sticker covering. You can see that it's really just a big empty box from the pics. The joystick at least looks sound, although I'm not a big fan of bat tops. The stick itself is made by a Korean manufacturer called Myeongshin.
I can't really speak further for the quality because it doesn't work. Unfortunately I don't have a PS2 to test it on, only my 360 with the converter. The converter works fine with all other PS controllers I've tried with it, but I'm not willing to rule out the converter as the problem. The buttons work, but the stick does not. In fact, it locks the directions on the connected XBox 360 controller on the same quadrant, so it really seems that something is mis-wired. I've attached a closeup of the soldering so that you can see the poor quality.
I kind of wish this thing worked, just to try it out. I don't think it's a good modding stick because of the way the crappy buttons are attached right to the PCB, and the terrible quality of the wood case (the top is held on with those long staple-ish wood tack things, whatever they're called). I'm going to have to get a Hori stick for future expansion (and soon because I still wanna play KOF XII and be able to chain supers for once), but right now my options are limited in Korea unless I settle for a Hori that only works on the 360.
I probably could fix this stick if I had my tools, but I'm not going to buy tools just to fix this. Not worth it. I'm afraid this stick is destined for the trash pile outside. I circled some suspect soldering in the pic below. I'm just curious why all of these solder points are bridged. I cannot see why they would be. All of the traces on the PCB are on the side that you're viewing except for the ground, so you're not missing anything in this view.
I'm just posting this for pure documenting purposes. Take it as you will.
By the way, here's the official site for this stick. They sell more sticks.
Anyway, they had several units of this Korean-made PS2 arcade stick for sale. I am not kidding, they were asking 5,500 won for these (less than $5.50), so I knew we were talking major horrible crap when I bought this. I bought it out of sheer morbid curiosity, and also because I'm real pissed at my Neo Stick 3.
I got it home and out of the box, and the build quality is quite bad. Particle board with fake wood sticker covering. You can see that it's really just a big empty box from the pics. The joystick at least looks sound, although I'm not a big fan of bat tops. The stick itself is made by a Korean manufacturer called Myeongshin.
I can't really speak further for the quality because it doesn't work. Unfortunately I don't have a PS2 to test it on, only my 360 with the converter. The converter works fine with all other PS controllers I've tried with it, but I'm not willing to rule out the converter as the problem. The buttons work, but the stick does not. In fact, it locks the directions on the connected XBox 360 controller on the same quadrant, so it really seems that something is mis-wired. I've attached a closeup of the soldering so that you can see the poor quality.
I kind of wish this thing worked, just to try it out. I don't think it's a good modding stick because of the way the crappy buttons are attached right to the PCB, and the terrible quality of the wood case (the top is held on with those long staple-ish wood tack things, whatever they're called). I'm going to have to get a Hori stick for future expansion (and soon because I still wanna play KOF XII and be able to chain supers for once), but right now my options are limited in Korea unless I settle for a Hori that only works on the 360.
I probably could fix this stick if I had my tools, but I'm not going to buy tools just to fix this. Not worth it. I'm afraid this stick is destined for the trash pile outside. I circled some suspect soldering in the pic below. I'm just curious why all of these solder points are bridged. I cannot see why they would be. All of the traces on the PCB are on the side that you're viewing except for the ground, so you're not missing anything in this view.
I'm just posting this for pure documenting purposes. Take it as you will.
By the way, here's the official site for this stick. They sell more sticks.
motions without struggle and the buttons/stick seem super responsive. This thing works better than my ASCII stick.
