But before I get to that, it's probably worth mentioning my performance at last years VsF.
I lost both of my Street Fighter 3: third strike matches (No surprise. I entered on a whim and I've never played it that seriously) but fared much better in Super Street Fighter 2:HDR. Winning three games before getting knocked out by the guy that went on to win the whole thing.
Overall, not too bad for my first ever tournament. And I would've been perfectly satisfied with that result if it wasn't for the fact that two of my four losses were entirely because I accidentally pressed the pause button on my ancient ps2 fightpad during the match, which instantly (and understandably) means that the player has to forfeit the round.
This was not going to happen again.
If I was going to lose, it would be because the guy I fought was better than me.
I had to man up and learn to play on a real controller.
So for most of this year I have been rolling around in the filthy world of custom joysticks, ultimately leading to the construction of this tiny little beast/beauty:
Based around a cheap little Hori ps3 fighting stick (portable!) which I gutted in a brutal fashion. I then swapped out the internals for arcade quality Seimitsu parts, replaced the ps3 PCB with pad-hacked circuit boards from PS1 and Xbox 360 joypads and garnished the whole thing with some half naked anime girl artwork. (Because anything else would be just plain wrong) So now, armed with a handful of PS1 adaptors, I'm ready for fighting on pretty much any modern video game system. No more busted-ass fight pads for me.
(Many thanks to the Tech Talk guys over on the Shoryuken forums and the folks at gremlinsolutions.co.uk without whom none of this would've been possible for an electronics n00b like myself)
Now nothing could stop me. OR COULD IT? dot dot dot
Stay tuned for part one of my report, which will be slightly more interesting than this post. Honest.
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