Street Fighter 2 Joysticks?

[porkins]

What kind of joysticks do Street Fighter 2 cabs use? What would be an accurate replacement for one? I currently have the Happ Ultimate 8-way sticks, and when I run Street Fighter 2 in MAME, it is really difficult to execute a dragon punch. Just doesn't feel as fluid as a real SF2 arcade machine. My character will actually jump when I am trying to transition from forward to down. Thanks!

[Beretta]

i dont know for sure it's been a long time but remembering back i wanna say happ supers?

[porkins]

Would the supers feel smoother than the ultimates? The ultimates feel a little clicky.

[mwong168]

I believe you are looking for the iL 8 way Eurojoystick.  iL use to make this stick for HAPP back in the day.

http://www.lizardlick.com/pages/joysticks.shtml

[Ginsu Victim]

Street Fighter 2 cabs typically had whatever it was converted from.

[kowal]

SF2 use first ver. WICO Conical Joystick this stick have soft spring and square actuator but W/O floating very, very hard to find I have only one. And this stick use firts US cab MVS


next SF2 ver (and MK1) use WICO Conical with improved actuator (floating) but spring is hard. and this stick is too very hard to find on auction

SSF2T use only Ultimate

and sometimes OEM SF2 cabs use Coin Control stick

[Jack Burton]

These days the most popular and generally agreed upon best joystick for SF2 is the Il competition stick. 

Back in the day of arcades, you never knew what you were going to find on a cab, since they were conversions.  Ultimates may have been official on something like the CE cab, but you hardly ever saw them since the cabs with Supers in them were much preferred by players, and Operators quickly realized this and switched them out.  And once the Il comp sticks caught on those became the de facto SF2 stick in any serious arcade. 

Of course, now we have all abandoned those sticks for the most part, and everyone uses Sanwa and Seimitsu stuff, but I don't think those would look very good on your cab. 

[Beretta]

Street Fighter 2 cabs typically had whatever it was converted from.

lol well it's true SF's came in all shapes and sizes i believe their was a factory cab for SF2 or SF2CE

dynamo cab i believe.. generic cab but came from the factory.
also did'nt the kits come with new joysticks? i never seen a SF game with ball joysticks.

[Ginsu Victim]

Yeah, I was just pointing out that a lot of people might not have even played on a proper dedicated cab.

[mwong168]

lol well it's true SF's came in all shapes and sizes i believe their was a factory cab for SF2 or SF2CE

amen to that, this is a steal at $250 lol  who ever did this should be castrated




http://tampa.craigslist.org/pnl/ele/1720589393.html

Yes there was a factory version which Capcom licensed one company to do their dedicated Champion Edition in.  Here are pictures of it:




Another original CE cab is the big blue one



All others are just generic dynamo HS series cabs with kits.

[Beretta]

oh my gosh, it looks like someone converted a narc to SF.
Thats a real shame, Narc is one of my favorite games, i still find the graphic violence of blowing a drug dealer up with a rocket to hold up even todays.

No one had the gut's, Till now

i believe it use to say on the title screen, for true.

[MaximRecoil]

Street Fighter 2 cabs typically had whatever it was converted from.

Street Fighter II would be a blast with 2-way Joust joysticks.