New North West UK VF Thread

ah ok thanks for the info.
No I haven't been to any NE events,
There will be other tournaments on the same day, VF5 will be there because I want to see it get played and we will have PS3s there on that day plus it is at a big event, so I don't need to rely soley on advertising before hand.
I've played quite a lot in the last few days but yeh I think I am holding it wrong or something, it is only in my right shoulder. The chair I am using is really bad, hopefully my new one will sort this out.
I have the fighting stick 3 but the layout is totally dum, is it easy to mod the stick?

 

I have 2 HFS3s as well as a HRAP3 (besides around 6-7 PS2 and DC sticks lol) and yeah the layout of the HFS3 is a bit crap.

It's possible to mod the stick but you need to know what you're doing and have a bit of prior soldering knowledge. Firstly the default set up is rubbish, ideally you should be using:

L2 = G
L1 = P
square = K

and everything else set to no use. This is the true arcade layout.

Because the HFS3 has a strange default layout i.e. the buttons arc downwards to the right too quickly (meaning for a 6 button game you'd need to re-configure your buttons to use

L1 square triangle
L2 cross circle

to stand any chance of using the stick properly) I replaced the Hori stock buttons with Sanwas and re-wired the buttons to be:

square triangle R1 L1
cross circle R2 L2

Here are 2 pics:

http://www.neoempire.net/lm_akira/HFS3pt1.JPG

http://www.neoempire.net/lm_akira/HFS3pt2.JPG


I also fitted a Sanwa JLF stick into the HFS3 as well...only to find out the hard way that the stick is not deep enough to accommodate a JLF, maybe a Seimitsu might fit but I don't have any currently.

So the stick in the pic is still the stock Hori one. It's ok but annoying when I miss dbpms because it's sometimes hard to register a diagonal on the stick quickly.

VFHGs are prob a better bet as they're all Sanwa, tho the HRAP3 are a walk in the park to mod.

 

That's a lot of sticks:|
Yeh I've already configured the buttons like you ave said.
So the arcades only have 3 buttons?
I wasn't sure if it was best to stick to just the 3 buttons, but if that is how it is on arcades then I shall stick to it.
Just had a few problems whiffing stances with lei fei not pressing all 3 buttons together, guess I'll get used to it over time.

Can you tell me how the number abbeviations work?

 

VF has only 3 buttons, in the way Tekken has only 4 and SF has 6.

You'll even see the picture of how the 3 buttons should be if you go into training and look at inputs.

What do you mean by number abbreviations? I'm kinda assuming you're talking about commands?? For VF I don't like using the numbering system, it's far neater to type in the explicit commands (especially on here). I use the number system when discussing GG as that's almost exclusively how GG moves are discussed in the community.

Basically look at your no. pad:

7 8 9
4 5 6
1 2 3

They describe your positions of the stick.

5 = neutral
4 = back
6 = forward
3 = down forward

and so on...

So Akira's sde is 666P and his yoho is 33P for example.

But like I said, for VF I don't like this system at all, it's far easier to understand/write/read yoho or /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/df.gif/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/df.gif/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/p.gif than thinking about what 33P actually is.

 

Thanks, been getting confused looking at some combos with numbers:|

 

For anyone who is interested, I'm looking at holding a VF5 session sometime in mid to late June.

When I can confirm that the local players here can make it I'll post up details for people if they want to come round.

I've only 1 set up for the PS3 but I'll also have a PS2 set up on the go so other games can obviously be played on that.

 

*BUMP*

A mention for any guys in the NW, I'm holding a T5R / VF5 session on the 18th of this month:

http://www.neoempire.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2496

Anyone interested can either post here or on NE.

 

RESURRECTION!!!

Some matches from games last night (this is basically a mirror of my NE post):

LM_Akira (Akira) vs Steptoe Akira (Akira):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbqXtv-fiVw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0uyVrqVyIc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW77hdusLnA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4ol8IHE5_A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiOhVPFuc3w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdsyZbBN5mI

More UK media can be also found in that original thread:

http://www.neoempire.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3488