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Ultimate pimp stick

  • 04-02-2011 10:59am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,290 ✭✭✭


    A new Stick has entered they fray.
    110202hoon01.jpg


    1.) Hand assembled in a Parisian workshop, featuring a lacquered oak wood cabinet with ostrich leather covering.
    2.) Sanwa parts.
    3.) Compatibility with Xbox 360, Ps3, and PC.


    Made by some french company called Hoon.
    Oak wood and ostrich leather, A Real mans stick for the distinguished gentleman. Probably have to sell a kidney for one.

    Pipe,Cravat and silk smoking jacket not included unfortunately.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 684 ✭✭✭Ken B


    A new Stick has entered they fray.
    110202hoon01.jpg


    1.) Hand assembled in a Parisian workshop, featuring a lacquered oak wood cabinet with ostrich leather covering.
    2.) Sanwa parts.
    3.) Compatibility with Xbox 360, Ps3, and PC.


    Made by some french company called Hoon.
    Oak wood and ostrich leather, A Real mans stick for the distinguished gentleman. Probably have to sell a kidney for one.

    Pipe,Cravat and silk smoking jacket not included unfortunately.
    You about for some games today?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,290 ✭✭✭unky chop chop


    Story ken. Be around later.Gotta go for an interview at 1.
    Fingers crossed and that stick shall be mine


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 684 ✭✭✭Ken B


    No probs Dave, good luck with that!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,070 ✭✭✭Placebo


    good luck with interview dave, tell them about your ken skillz.
    that stick looks too big, like a special food tray


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,082 ✭✭✭✭chopperbyrne


    Good luck with the interview Chop Chop.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,239 ✭✭✭UberPrinny_Baal


    I've always thought modern sticks were seriously lacking in Ostrich Leather, glad to see someone fixed that.

    Dave if you live in Dublin and can drive, send me a private message, I'm trying to find someone to take over the job I'm leaving.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 567 ✭✭✭Vyze


    Thread derail on the very first reply (which inexplicably includes a full quote of the OP), good stuff.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,290 ✭✭✭unky chop chop


    Cheers guys.
    Got through to the second round.
    Interview tip:If they say that they think you might get bored as you will be doing less and you are over qualified just reply:
    No not at all this means I can be more focused LIKE A LAZER BEAM

    honest words from my mouth:pac:
    They were also impressed by my links and Kara throws


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,070 ✭✭✭Placebo


    them tea maker positions do have 3 round interviews.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,315 ✭✭✭A-Trak


    No job for you Dave.

    The dole, drinking Lidl beer and upgrading the arcade cabinet are your main priorities.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,290 ✭✭✭unky chop chop


    The arcade cabinet is nearly finished after much pain.
    Will update soon.Just need to get my hands on ostrich leather


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,823 ✭✭✭✭K.O.Kiki


    As resident master of sticks*, I must say I find this Hoon stick distasteful.

    The joystick isn't square-and-center on the plate, that stupid "Hoon" logo is actually raised, it's all-Sanwa in white (i.e. crap stick, BORING colour), and there's no separate Home button.

    And that ostrich leather just looks fugly.

    I'd much rather get this & mod it:
    pa.186267.3.jpg


    *yes I'm on pad for now...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,290 ✭✭✭unky chop chop


    Agreed it does look shocking.Thats the point.It's like a stick Ron Burgundy would own if he played SF.
    What do you mean stick isn't squared and centered. It looks like its in the exact same place as a TE relative to the buttons


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,823 ✭✭✭✭K.O.Kiki


    The stick & buttons are too far over to the left.

    If you look at the lovely AH3 V3 up there, you'll see that the stick and the 3P button are equidistant from the edges.

    However, the Hooh atrocity* is using a ratio of 1:2, thus unbalancing it (you'd have a lot of overhang to your right as you're playing).


    To see it done right at that size, look at the Hori VLX:
    hori-vlx.jpg

    Or this monster being made for Jeff Schaeffer (no.2 US SF2WW player) by RoninWarrior:
    JeffSchaeferstemplatecopy-2.jpg

    it's a pun on AstroCity lol


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,290 ✭✭✭unky chop chop


    Ahh I see. Does the TE not have the same distance from stick to left edge though.
    Not to derail the thread:)but have you ever tried Sanwa jlw's Kikki (or anyone.) I've ordered them for my cab and im interested to see how they compare to JLF's


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,823 ✭✭✭✭K.O.Kiki


    I'd say the JLW is closer to Seimitsu sticks than JLF -- medium-to-heavy spring & levered microswitches.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,258 ✭✭✭✭DARK-KNIGHT


    hey i have a TE stick but am on the lookout for a new stick..

    what would you guys recommend and wheres best place to get them?

    remember paying 180 euro for my TE FFS they like to charge that amazon croud

    oh im on xbox 360


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,823 ✭✭✭✭K.O.Kiki


    If you fancy something different:
    • Hori RAP EX (Hori snap-in buttons, not perfect but workable)
    • Qanba Q4 -- I'm not sure when it's coming out (and how you can buy it), but it's a neat stick design, PS3/360, full Sanwa, for $160. They have a Q3 model for 360 as well.
    • Hori VX-SA -- Full Sanwa. Has the advantage of being the lightest stick here (2.2kg), so overseas shipping would be a bit lower.

    Now the bad news: I have no idea where to buy the latter 2 for cheap :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,258 ✭✭✭✭DARK-KNIGHT


    An wireless options??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,823 ✭✭✭✭K.O.Kiki


    The Tekken bundle stick is the only one that comes to mind.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,229 ✭✭✭Dreddybajs


    don't get a wireless stick


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,258 ✭✭✭✭DARK-KNIGHT


    Dreddybajs wrote: »
    don't get a wireless stick

    Ok but why? Anything else recommended I have roughly 100 put aside for a new stick


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,872 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    Ok but why? Anything else recommended I have roughly 100 put aside for a new stick

    Wireless sticks lag slightly and are illegal in tournaments.

    While you mightn't be too pushed about tournaments, it means if a stick's good, it'll be wired.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,823 ✭✭✭✭K.O.Kiki


    Pimp:
    Rufus_1.JPG


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,258 ✭✭✭✭DARK-KNIGHT


    K.O.Kiki wrote: »
    Pimp:
    Rufus_1.JPG
    OOOh what stick is that?????


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,229 ✭✭✭Dreddybajs


    It's a custom B15 stick.

    http://www.b15sdmdesigns.com/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,258 ✭✭✭✭DARK-KNIGHT


    cant believe the price of that custom stick lol crazy money..

    any shops in ireland making or selling sticks? hmv are sellking te2s for 90 or 100 would it be worth gutting a te and modding?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,070 ✭✭✭Placebo


    cant believe the price of that custom stick lol crazy money..

    any shops in ireland making or selling sticks? hmv are sellking te2s for 90 or 100 would it be worth gutting a te and modding?

    WHERE?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,823 ✭✭✭✭K.O.Kiki


    It really isn't crazy money.
    • Joystick: 20 euro
    • Buttons: 20-24 euro
    • PCB: 25-50 euro
    • Wood: 10 euro (MDF) to 40+ (exotic woods)
    • Paint: 10-30+ euro (depending on complexity)

    Now figure in the cost of heavy machinery (router, saws, etc), bits (router bits are not cheap!), and then realise that each of these custom sticks takes about 10+hrs to make, and then a few DAYS to paint...

    Stick makers would really be making more money in an office job.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,229 ✭✭✭Dreddybajs


    Yeah, if I was getting a custom stick at some point I'd definitely pony up for a B15. It's expensive but they are the nicest sticks I've seen.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,872 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    Dreddybajs wrote: »
    Yeah, if I was getting a custom stick at some point I'd definitely pony up for a B15. It's expensive but they are the nicest sticks I've seen.

    I've had to stop myself a couple of times. I just can't justify ANOTHER stick (I'm already on no 4, it's sanwa and dual modded, and it didn't cost me a bomb).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,290 ✭✭✭unky chop chop


    Feck the sticks.
    I'm drooling over the custom Viewlix cabs he sells.
    Ohhh mammy



    Just checked price ..a snip at 4 grand


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,020 ✭✭✭Ry




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,823 ✭✭✭✭K.O.Kiki


    ...
    You did not.

    YOU FVCKING DID NOT!!

    :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,229 ✭✭✭Dreddybajs


    absolutely beautiful, can't wait to see it


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,070 ✭✭✭Placebo


    Ry wrote: »
    Seen this? :)

    Looks like a TE dropped in a pool of glitter and tinfoil.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,020 ✭✭✭Ry


    Placebo wrote: »
    Looks like a TE dropped in a pool of glitter and tinfoil.

    I knew you would have nothing good to say.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,823 ✭✭✭✭K.O.Kiki


    SOOOOOO about that original, ugly POS stick by Hoon.
    supreme jd wrote: »
    Here's what I got when I asked for a price quote:
    Dear Sir,

    Thank you very much for pre-ordering the HOON VS NEO LEGEND arcade stick.

    The price of this product is 1950€
    The package will be shipped via UPS express in 15 to 20 business days after we have received payment.
    International shipping is free

    The HOON VS NEO LEGEND arcade stick and its packaging are handmade in the HOON's parisian workshop.
    It is composed of premium lackered wood and ostrich leather.
    Joystick and Buttons are from Sanwa Denshi Co., Ltd.
    This product is compatible with SONY playstation 3, Microsoft XBOX 360 and PC.

    You will receive a Paypal payment request in a couple of hours.
    The order will be confirm only after we have received payment.

    If you have any question about this product, please e-mail us at order@hoon.fr.

    Thank you very much again,

    HOON

    Not even a joke.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,910 ✭✭✭Sisko


    Ry wrote: »



    Fair play Ry, looks brilliant.


    I'll take it off you for 50 next time you decide to quit again :p


    Hehe just kiddin m8, looks great, better then what I pictured when you described it to me. Hope its as nice to play on as it looks.


    Must be strange to have a youtube video of your own unique stick of which I'm sure many will comment on and admire on there and srk.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,020 ✭✭✭Ry


    It arrived today. It's nice. Has a nice weight to it. Little heavier than a TE2 and plays fine. Still getting used to it though. Little stiff or something on the buttons.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,229 ✭✭✭Dreddybajs


    Can't wait to see it Ry. The stiffness would be the Seimitsu buttons, that's the price you pay for style.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,823 ✭✭✭✭K.O.Kiki


    Dreddybajs wrote: »
    Can't wait to see it Ry. The stiffness would be the Seimitsu buttons, that's the price you pay for style.
    Seimitsu have just reintroduced the PS-14-K buttons, aka "skeleton".
    PS-14-Ks.jpg

    They are snap-in 30mm, but more importantly, they use the smaller microswitches from Seimitsu 24mm buttons; and can fit Sanwa SW-68 if needed.

    Expensive though -- 295¥ each.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,308 ✭✭✭✭.ak


    Ry wrote: »
    It arrived today. It's nice. Has a nice weight to it. Little heavier than a TE2 and plays fine. Still getting used to it though. Little stiff or something on the buttons.

    He means he's got a stiff one over this. Perv.

    Seriously though, you could buy much more important things for that kinda money... like 66.6 pints of Guinness.

    -A


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,878 ✭✭✭bush


    There isnt that much difference in stiffness between the seimitsus in Rys stick over sanwa imo. Those buttons are nice, wont take long to adjust.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,070 ✭✭✭Placebo


    LADS TOP DOLLA WAS PAYED
    Its-a-little-thing-called-style-Look-it-up-sometime.jpg?imageSize=Medium&generatorName=Bender
    You hated my old buttons they were Seimitsu, shoulda researched


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,823 ✭✭✭✭K.O.Kiki


    Farz, I know you're a "graphics designer" or whatever, but you don't have to add an image macro to EVERY post you make.

    It makes you look like a 12yr old twat :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,070 ✭✭✭Placebo


    better than talking about 12 year old hentai 'TWATs'
    and listing random tier lists


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,308 ✭✭✭✭.ak


    Lads, lets not come to such low, personal blows.... Farz IS 12.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,823 ✭✭✭✭K.O.Kiki


    .ak wrote: »
    Lads, lets not come to such low, personal blows.... Farz IS 12.
    No no no.

    Far2 is punch.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,910 ✭✭✭Sisko


    Placebo wrote: »
    better than talking about 12 year old hentai 'TWATs'


    Pity he didn't add a pic to that post eh kiki?


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