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aldub516:

thank you all.. Yes the actuator on the bottom of my happs was square. I noticed also on one of the happs, the joystick no longer centered perfectly either. I have since installed the x-arcade sticks, and moved on. Thank you all for input! Just wanted to know if theres one like terrible con to x-arcade like switches stop working in a week or something lol. Thanks as always!


Cynicaster:

The X-Arcade sticks are pretty much knock-offs of Happ Supers, best I can tell. 

In the spring, I ordered an X-Arcade for a quickie garage pedestal project.  I tried to like the stock X-arcade sticks, but couldn't get into them. 

Out of the box, they wouldn't hit diagonals very well at all, which made shooters a nightmare.  I took the thing apart and tried adjusting the levers to increase the sensitivity of diagonals, but after I did that, the left microswitches kept sticking during gameplay, which made the joysticks pretty much useless (at my birthday party, no less).  At that point I said "screw this" and just replaced the stock sticks with Happ Competitions, which bolted right up without modification.  Night and day difference--but then again, I'm a huge fan of the Happ Competition. 

To be fair, I'm sure I could have taken the X apart and fiddled some more with the actuation levers to get the stock sticks to work well, but it came down to a question of how much I value my spare time.  I just wanted to play some damn games in my garage, so I decided that dumping $30 on a pair of Happs (shipped) was a worthwhile expenditure, for the sake of getting me into a game of Xevious.

Honestly, I don't know why X-Arcade doesn't work out some kind of deal with Happ to put Competitions in the tank sticks.  They're not expensive, they feel right at home in the X-Arcade, and they're hands down superior to the stock parts. 

 



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