Hori Real Arcade Pro 3/EX Premium VLX

EOJ · January 30, 2010, 10:03:21 PM

These look hot. 30,000 yen each (one for PS3, one for X360):

http://www.hori.jp/manual/rap_premium_vlx_order/

Wonder if Play-asia will stock them?

gsl · January 31, 2010, 12:35:02 AM

They should start doing that for most popular arcade cabinet types. An Astro City-inspired panel would be awesome.

fuse · January 31, 2010, 04:58:49 AM

There's so little need for the 360 one to have coloured buttons, jeez. They look awful!

Other than that though yeah, it looks gorgeous. Before I've even seen it I'm tempted to say "shame about the price" though.

KOMA · January 31, 2010, 06:59:58 AM

Expensive but i'm gonna order one

gsl · January 31, 2010, 01:10:22 PM

Quote from: fuse on January 31, 2010, 04:58:49 AM
There's so little need for the 360 one to have coloured buttons, jeez. They look awful!

On that design yeah, they look horrid, but I'm actually really glad that they have the colored buttons on my EX-SE. It's a lot easier to tell at a glance which button's which (at least, for the face buttons) instead of having to squint at some small notation on the panel next to the buttons themselves, as is the case with a lot of joysticks. It's just nice to hit the blue button to eject a game rather then hunt for X and hope I don't hit A instead and launch Far Cry 2 when I wanted to swap discs for Mushi Futari.

Kiel · February 08, 2010, 12:52:45 PM

Quote from: gsl on January 31, 2010, 12:35:02 AM
They should start doing that for most popular arcade cabinet types. An Astro City-inspired panel would be awesome.

There exists a 2 player astro control panel for the saturn

Atstroboy · February 20, 2010, 04:35:55 AM

How difficult would it be to hook this one to an AV7000? It would make quite a good looking supergun

EOJ · August 30, 2010, 01:13:22 AM

Just noticed these are available in the USA at amazon.com as of a month ago, @ $299.99 (w/ free shipping). Pricey!

http://www.amazon.com/Real-Arcade-Pro-Premium-Xbox-360/dp/B003VQR24W/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1283145119&sr=8-2

EOJ · September 29, 2010, 03:43:12 PM

Black version (VX SE) with all Seimitsu parts (incl. LS-32 stick) coming in November to Japan:

http://news.dengeki.com/elem/000/000/306/306744/

drunkninja · October 26, 2010, 11:16:36 PM

I kinda wish Hori would stop using PS-14-G buttons in their Seimitsu sticks. I'm just not a fan of the flat top and "clacky" feel of them. Much prefer the PS-14-KN look and feel, though having those would make the stick more expensive.

spl · October 27, 2010, 07:13:17 PM

Quote from: drunkninja on October 26, 2010, 11:16:36 PM
I kinda wish Hori would stop using PS-14-G buttons in their Seimitsu sticks. I'm just not a fan of the flat top and "clacky" feel of them. Much prefer the PS-14-KN look and feel, though having those would make the stick more expensive.

I've got the PS-14-G's in my stick because I heard they were like the flat top buttons in the yellow Namco stick. Unfortunately the PS-14-G's have got alot more resistance in them and feel alot heavier.

It's easy to swap them out for other buttons anyway.