LS32 sloppy?

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LS32 sloppy?

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Just had 2 brand new Seimitsu LS32s delivered and have put them in my cab. They are a lot sloppier than I remember and it's a bit of a nightmare pulling off supers in SSF2X. Is my memory betraying me or something or have they always been quite a loose feeling stick? I took a couple of cheap zippy sticks out of there and they feel much more solid connecting with the microswitches :eh:
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They are all different. I've got a couple of LS32-01's with the 33 pcb & they are great, tight-ish with hardly any wiggle. However, I have another set that are no where near as tight. Ultimatley I have moved the tighter sticks to player 1 side on both cabs. They were all new too.

When you say loose, do you mean before or after the microswith is engaged?
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My LS-32's have a big dead zone. Bought them new after a lot of praise from guys here but I never liked them :(. The LS-33's are awesome and so are the LS-40's!
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You can fix both issues.

Tight - new spring
Loose / dead zone - mod the actuator.

I love ls32s.
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Mainly after the micro switch has been activated. I'm sure I will get used to it
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I prefer LS32s after they've had a few days breaking in.
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I'm getting more used to it after a few games. I faffed on rewiring the stiffer zippy stick and it wasn't much different. Destroyed one of the ground connectors in the process which was a right ball ache to rewire. I'm leaving it well alone now!
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cools wrote:I prefer a few days breaking in.
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I used to love LS-32, but now I much prefer LS-56 (and probably LS-58 too) because it just feels tighter and you can use octagate on them that I really like because I used to play on octagonal gated joysticks when I was a wee lad. :shifty:
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I've been using stock LS-32s for years, never had any problem in Street Fighter or KOF. Sounds like you got busted goods or have no business using LS-32s (if you're use to some other standard of stick). In fact, I consider LS-32s to be the best stick around. Too many people get all complicated with their stick modding, switching parts etc., best to keep it simple, I have never had any complaints about the stock performance, so I'd be modding for the sake of modding and not because I had a reason.
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I've always sworn by a Sanwa JLF-TP-8Y with a standard square gate for every genre of arcade game, be it fighters, platformers, Shmups.. Anything with digital controls. Seimitsu LS-32s feel too much hard work, same goes for the buttons, and I hate the rounded diagnols. Sanwa parts are so effortless to use.
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Sanwa JLF - better for fighters
Seimitsu LS32 - everything else
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When I got my MVS-U4 cab it had nearly new LS-32s in it, it was pretty much unplayable to me. Double quarter circle motions were literally impossible for me, and I'm pretty darn good at KOF. I modded my mounting plate to take JLFs and everything is now perfect.

I like LS-56's though, much tighter dead zone and tighter spring.
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GolfRat wrote:Sanwa JLF - better for fighters
Seimitsu LS32 - everything else
I don't get where the myth started that LS32s hold mystical powers that grants the player godly skill at Shmups. They don't.
Sanwa are just as good for Shmups. All these custom springs to add different tensions etc are just pointless. LS32s feel cheap to me personally.

Check out the legendary VTF-INO Ikaruga replays, he's using a BlastCity panel with square gate JLFs, and Ikaruga is pretty much one of the most precise pixel accurate vert shooters out there. I believe raw practice, a gameplan strategy, creative well executed thought out ideas, FAR outweigh the stick brand for you to get good results out of any game/genre. There are no shortcuts ;)

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I bought into the hype of the LS-32 as well, but I think it's also a matter of what you grew up playing on (for me, German Super-sticks mostly= short throw/quick engage/octagonal gate) and my first Japanese stick was the LS-32 (hype) and that was my comfort zone for a long, long time. Now I can play on any stick really, as long as it's working as intended. ;)
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I also feel like every Seimitsu part feels incredibly cheap, removing a Seimitsu button once from a control panel it split in half and shot a shard of plastic underneath my nails, very uncomfortable. Sanwas have never done that to me... I would be more pro-seimitsu if they were cheaper than Sanwa but they're almost exactly the same and sometimes more, but Sanwa is better built IMO.
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LS32s and Seimitsu screwins for life.
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My rig is:

Seimitsu LS-32 for sticks
Sanwa OBSF-30 for buttons

Tried seimitsu buttons and found them too clicky, tried sanwa sticks and found them to soft.
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Got Sanwa sticks in the cab atm, hate them - way to much throw. :sick:

Had Seimitsu LS-32 in the last cab and loved them but Just ordered some LS-56 with octo gates as recommended by Emph now though :awe:
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Exciting! ;)
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