Hadouken!

Playing SF4 at a local arcade in Hiroshima

I can finally pull off those troublesome quarter circle fireball moves now my arcade stick arrived from Gamesmen. I don't mind playing Street Fighter 4 on a ps3 controller however I wanted the same authentic arcade experience that I had a couple of months ago playing in an underground arcade in Shibuya Tokyo minus the cigarette smoke and ridiculously hardcore players challenging me.

Out of the box before the mod

I made a small project out of it and it wasn't cheap. The world wide shortage of these arcade stick controllers due to the release of SF4 meant that the good ones on the market were selling at hyperinflated prices $300+. With the help of tutorials and guides from shoryuken forums I had little trouble in modding the box. I did damage the original PCB in the process by using an overpowered soldering iron so I hacked apart a cheap PS3 controller and wired everything up again.

Bottom view of the controller

A little reverse engineering was required to see how the cheap PS3 controller PCB would work and the end result was a working arcade stick minus PS3 Home button and Turbo functionality.

Top view of the controller

I mucked about with a bit of artwork with photoshop and printed/laminated it at my local snap printing store. All up it cost about $250 due to the extra tools I needed for the job which is the same price as the non inflated Madcatz TE fight stick. I must have spent about 16 hours in total on the project and at one point it turned into a little obsession. The satisfaction of not having to use my thumbs and cumbersome PS3 controller to play sf4 is priceless and though I have gotten used to the stick now I'm afraid it hasn't lifted my game at all. Time will tell.. back to it.

Home sweet home...

It's been only 2 weeks since I've left which is not the longest I've been away but it's enough time to miss the things I love. My new baby the PS3 was left to collect dust with it's brother my TV. It wasn't the first thing to be greeted because as soon as I dropped my bags off inside I had to go meet Claudia and get some wedding planning done. Safe to say the wedding reception venue is sorted and so is the ceremony venue and photographer. Too easy.

Also it looks like my treats from online shopping from the rig had come and gone. I've got to go to the post office to collect my brand spanking new Hori arcade stick and Sanwa custom parts. Ever since I touched that Street Fighter 4 arcade machine in Japan I've been hooked and I've made it a personal mission to bring the arcade experience home.

The Hori arcade sticks / fight sticks / joysticks don't come with high quality parts found in Japanese arcade machines so I've ordered the buttons and joysticks with plans to modify it. That's my little home project over the next couple days whilst I have time off.

Oh if you have facebook check out the game Bejeweled Blitz. Claudia can't beat my score at the moment. It's addictive, so much so that I dreamt of tetris like jewels last night :(

http://victaa.net a new home...

Welcome to my new space.. After the previous hosting company suspended my account for not paying the bills I've decided it would be more cost effective to either leech of someone elses server or use a free service like this. So here we are welcome to planet victaa (with a lower case v).

I've been meaning to move servers for awhile but other things in life have distracted me. Work, Holidays, Claudia, SF4...

All my previous posts have been lost unfortunately so I'm starting with a clean page. It will need some spicing up. I'll figure it out later.

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"Pleasure And Pain"


You always said you loved me
Though my mind's right now not sure
You've always been there for me
Though my heart never feels secure
Why can't you take a further step
To let me know you really care
Cuz now I'm feeling driven
Into a love that's not right there

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Why do you make me feel this way
Feeling betrayed, feeling pushed away
Why do you make me feel so bad
Feeling so hurt, feeling so sad
What have I done to make you turn
I'm feeling so lost, I'm feeling so burned
If you really cared you'd make a change
So I could feel the pleasure and not the pain

After all I've said
You still have it set in your head
That you don't really care about me
Why can't you seem to believe
That I'm the only one for you
I gave all my love to you
And after all I've done for you
You never say that you love me
The way that I love you

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I feel all the pain, hurt so bad, feel so sad
It hurts so bad, it hurts so bad
I just can't take no more baby
Girl make a change
So I can feel the pleasure and not the pain