Real Arcade Pro VX SA

 (27 customer reviews)

I was looking to get into using an arcade joystick for Super Street Fighter 4; all I played on before was the 360 controller and the madcatz fightpad.

I wasn't that familiar with manufacturers of stick parts but I hear Sanwa makes the best and this stick comes with everything Sanwa. The design is bulky and overall this stick is much larger than I expected. This is by no means a downside as the extra elevation is very comfortable especially if you're just playing on your lap. The buttons are very responsive, with the concave design making it feel like I'm hitting the button before I'm hitting the button: very cool. The joystick is a little weird because of the square gate, which is a little bit of a bizzare transition from controllers. I got used to it in roughly two weeks of maybe 10 hours of play total so not too bad at all. As the pictures show there's a lot of extra room on the left of the stick which, depending on your grip, can make manipulating the stick very...Read more

I've used all kinds of arcade sticks including the TE. But since TE is pretty much the standard, i'll use it as comparison. Both sticks use all Sanwa Parts which are very high quality. The whole arcade stick itself is huge and much longer than the TE. It's about 2.5lbs lighter I believe but still very sturdy and stays on your lap fine. Buttons are a little closer to the stick than the TE, which doesn't seem like a huge difference when transitioning from stick to stick. The response is awesome and is very solid and durable. I've actually dropped it a couple of times and its still like new. Great stick. Would recommend. A++++

This arcade stick is physically perfect, it feels great, the buttons and stick are all A++ arcade quality parts, very solid to hold and I like the grips on the sides of the stick.

I was not prepared for how large this thing is! That's not a bad thing at all, by any means.. like I said it feels great, even for extended durations of game play. This controller works perfectly with PC gaming as well as 360 gaming. Response time is instantaneous, games feel like they should with an arcade quality control panel like this. In windows (only tested with XP) it works great with the standard 360 controller drivers for windows or 3rd party XBCD drivers. (though it takes a bit of work to get this to register with the latter, I only use XBCD drivers so I can remap the triggers on the standard 360 controller as buttons and not analog x/y axis, which is not changeable in Microsoft's drivers)

I only gave the stick 4 stars because of intrinsic problems with how Xbox 360...Read more