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Sega Virtua Stick Pro
General
This is the king of all joysticks, a real monster. Sega released this in the Saturn's heydey for an astonishing 40,000 Yen. It has eight buttons per player and two start buttons. It's the identical panel and parts found in Sega's Astro City cabinets - though most Astro City panels have fewer buttons.
What's inside?
It's very similar to home sticks internally - a giant PCB connects all the buttons, and there's a dual Saturn encoder PCB tucked away in the center. Unlike most home sticks however the buttons are proper arcade sized, so you can slap in any stock 30mm button from Seimitsu or Sanwa and it'll work great.
The mechanism is a Seimitsu LS-32. There's a small riser inside, welded to the CP and two screws hold the mech to the riser.
Other Details
There's an adjustable guide plate on each mech for 2-, 4- and 8-way operation, which is a great feature marred by the amount of work involved in opening the stick. There's about ten screws on the base.
The stick bears Sega part number HSS-0130.
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