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Title: Stainless steel sticks, a blight on fighters? (perhaps dragonjoystick.com?)
Post by: releasedtruth on October 31, 2006, 10:54:45 am
Gents, I was playing for nearly the first time on the machine and I'm finding that the combination of the weight and long throw of the SlikStik stainless sticks makes it very difficult to pull off the high-flava combos. I've played SF and MK since I was a lad and it seems I've misjudged these sticks as being awesome. They feel so smooth and I have the heavy spring in them, but I can't make it happen how I'd like. I found these

www.dragonjoystick.com (http://www.dragonjoystick.com)

But can't make contact with them. I want to try their smaller aluminum sticks, but they may be out of business. Anyone know? I don't want to go with classic black, that's for certain.

GT
Title: Re: Stainless steel sticks, a blight on fighters? (perhaps dragonjoystick.com?)
Post by: Kremmit on November 01, 2006, 10:54:53 pm
Never seen those guys before.  Interesting.
Title: Re: Stainless steel sticks, a blight on fighters? (perhaps dragonjoystick.com?)
Post by: releasedtruth on November 02, 2006, 09:29:39 am
I loved the idea, but there's no response to emails and I won't just paypal the money cause they have no paypal feedback either. I don't want the standard stick, but I'd love the Dragon Joysticks, if I could make contact. I'll post a review if I can ever get a hold of a pair.

GT
Title: Re: Stainless steel sticks, a blight on fighters? (perhaps dragonjoystick.com?)
Post by: Stingray on November 02, 2006, 02:53:43 pm
Never seen those guys before.  Interesting.

I can hear Kremmit warming up his credit card in preparation for buying more parts for his closet. ;)

-S
Title: Re: Stainless steel sticks, a blight on fighters? (perhaps dragonjoystick.com?)
Post by: Kremmit on November 02, 2006, 09:40:56 pm
Never seen those guys before.  Interesting.

I can hear Kremmit warming up his credit card in preparation for buying more parts for his closet. ;)

-S

Nope, not this time.  Bat-tops = bleh.
Title: Re: Stainless steel sticks, a blight on fighters? (perhaps dragonjoystick.com?)
Post by: releasedtruth on November 02, 2006, 11:49:28 pm
Even if  you did warm up that credit card, you'd probably just lose your money since I can't seem to get any info at all beyond what's on the site...
Title: Re: Stainless steel sticks, a blight on fighters? (perhaps dragonjoystick.com?)
Post by: FunWithFire on November 04, 2006, 11:41:07 am
I'm always hesitant when the business email for a company is through Hotmail. But that's just me.
Title: Re: Stainless steel sticks, a blight on fighters? (perhaps dragonjoystick.com?)
Post by: quarterback on November 04, 2006, 01:11:06 pm
The domain was only registered about 6 months ago.  It's possible that they've got the website up but don't actually have the products.

It'll be interesting to see if these materialize although I, like Kremmit, don't particularly like Bat-Tops.
Title: Re: Stainless steel sticks, a blight on fighters? (perhaps dragonjoystick.com?)
Post by: quarterback on November 04, 2006, 01:21:16 pm
FWIW, at one point in the past, the owner of the dragonjoystick website donated something (money?) to the BYOAC FAQ:

http://arcadecontrols.com/donations.php

Also, he has restored a Tron and has at least one other MAME machine.  I haven't been able to figure out what his BYOAC user name is but he is or was part of the 'community'
Title: Re: Stainless steel sticks, a blight on fighters? (perhaps dragonjoystick.com?)
Post by: releasedtruth on November 05, 2006, 11:48:24 am
QB, good researchin. I'd really like to know what's up with them. I found them about 3 months ago, nothing's changed with the site and I can't get an email response no matter which address I email from, and that's over the last month. I don't love bat tops either, but I'd at least like to get a set so I can drop a review for all the folks that might love em. Sounds tempting enough anyway.

GT
Title: Re: Stainless steel sticks, a blight on fighters? (perhaps dragonjoystick.com?)
Post by: FunWithFire on November 05, 2006, 01:36:37 pm
Looks like he's about an hour north of me, so I could always drive up there and knock on his door.
Title: Re: Stainless steel sticks, a blight on fighters? (perhaps dragonjoystick.com?)
Post by: quarterback on November 05, 2006, 10:15:32 pm
QB, good researchin. I'd really like to know what's up with them. I found them about 3 months ago, nothing's changed with the site and I can't get an email response no matter which address I email from, and that's over the last month. I don't love bat tops either, but I'd at least like to get a set so I can drop a review for all the folks that might love em. Sounds tempting enough anyway.

GT