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After many months of eagerly waiting, this morning i finally took delivery of my arcade controller. For taiko fans curious on how it is, i decided to create a impressions thread. For those not in the know this controller was made by Hori as an upgrade to the smaller tattacon controller that is bundled with the Wii&WiiU versions of the game. This version has many upgrades mainly the size which is massive, while not full arcade size it's as close as home users are ever going to get without going to the arcades. It also has a lot of weight to it so it won't move an inch when playing, it was a total pain playing on the smaller tattacon as it would scoot across the floor unless you found a way of stopping it moving.
There are not many import places online to get hold of it if you live outside Japan, i went with Amazon Japan it cost me roughly £140 and i used tenso to forward it to me as Amazon will not ship gaming stuff outside of Japan. The postage from Amazon was free so i just had to pay shipping from tenso it ended up costing about £60 which is really expensive but the box weighs 5kg so it's not a cheap item to get posted, i decided to get it sooner rather than later as things like this rarely stay in stock forever.
Anyway let the pic avalanche commence.
As you can see the box is quite substantial.
Don & Kat greet you as soon as you open the box.
The box is lined with foam core to protect everything inside, it was shipped from Japan naked like that and everything was totally protected inside.
The mat that the controller sits on is thick and has a slightly sticky rubberized coating making it stay where you put it.
Next layer is the drum stand it has rubber feet and rubber grips where the drum sits making less noise from excessive vibration, pretty heavy too that sucker won't be sliding all over your floor.
Going further into the box we finally arrive at the drum itself.
Under the sticks are 3 sets of clip in feet for the back of the drum stand it allows you to put the drum at 3 angles for drumming ease depending on how you are sat.
As you can see the drum is quite deep and has some nice detailing.
You can see just how big the thing is i used a DS game for size comparison, the surface has the same nice rubberized feel as the original tattacon also has a nice amount of recoil when you hit it with the sticks making drumrolls pretty easy. Also like everything else it's pretty weighty it weighs 2kg on it's own.
The sticks that come with it are arcade size and are pretty solid they have some weight to them thanks to the rubber sleeves on them, will take some getting used to the weight.
And finally a couple of shots of it all set up and ready to play, has a little slot at the back to put the wii remote in when you are playing, it's nice and self contained with also a place to store the sticks when not playing.
Only given it a quick go on the Wii taiko games so far but it's holding up really well, the hits feel solid & accurate. Will need to relearn how to do oni level with sticks again it's been a while since i have used a proper controller as i mainly used to stick to buttons on the Wii games, i don't have a WiiU yet so i can't test it with the newer games but it works fine with all the older games.
There are not many import places online to get hold of it if you live outside Japan, i went with Amazon Japan it cost me roughly £140 and i used tenso to forward it to me as Amazon will not ship gaming stuff outside of Japan. The postage from Amazon was free so i just had to pay shipping from tenso it ended up costing about £60 which is really expensive but the box weighs 5kg so it's not a cheap item to get posted, i decided to get it sooner rather than later as things like this rarely stay in stock forever.
Anyway let the pic avalanche commence.
As you can see the box is quite substantial.
Don & Kat greet you as soon as you open the box.
The box is lined with foam core to protect everything inside, it was shipped from Japan naked like that and everything was totally protected inside.
The mat that the controller sits on is thick and has a slightly sticky rubberized coating making it stay where you put it.
Next layer is the drum stand it has rubber feet and rubber grips where the drum sits making less noise from excessive vibration, pretty heavy too that sucker won't be sliding all over your floor.
Going further into the box we finally arrive at the drum itself.
Under the sticks are 3 sets of clip in feet for the back of the drum stand it allows you to put the drum at 3 angles for drumming ease depending on how you are sat.
As you can see the drum is quite deep and has some nice detailing.
You can see just how big the thing is i used a DS game for size comparison, the surface has the same nice rubberized feel as the original tattacon also has a nice amount of recoil when you hit it with the sticks making drumrolls pretty easy. Also like everything else it's pretty weighty it weighs 2kg on it's own.
The sticks that come with it are arcade size and are pretty solid they have some weight to them thanks to the rubber sleeves on them, will take some getting used to the weight.
And finally a couple of shots of it all set up and ready to play, has a little slot at the back to put the wii remote in when you are playing, it's nice and self contained with also a place to store the sticks when not playing.
Only given it a quick go on the Wii taiko games so far but it's holding up really well, the hits feel solid & accurate. Will need to relearn how to do oni level with sticks again it's been a while since i have used a proper controller as i mainly used to stick to buttons on the Wii games, i don't have a WiiU yet so i can't test it with the newer games but it works fine with all the older games.
