Hey everyone. I'm kind of new here, so I apologize if this is in the wrong forum.
I purchased an X-Arcade Tankstick about a year ago (model with the trackball in center), and overall I really like it. I mostly just play older arcade games on Mame. I have it sitting in an Xtension arcade cabinet from Rec Room Masters.
I have noticed it's not that great for certain fighting games, like Street Fighter II, etc. This seems to be a common criticism of this controller, as the generic bat sticks X-Arcade uses don't seem to register diagonals for the Hadouken type motions that well. The buttons also don't seem responsive enough. I know convex buttons have become more popular and seem to be the preferred style for fighting games, compared to the classic concave buttons the Tankstick comes with.
I am considering modding the Tankstick with IL Eurojoystick competition sticks and IL or Happ convex competition buttons. Added bonus would be changing the colors from the generic black stick and buttons on the Tankstick. I will be first to admit that I'm not a super handy person...I can take stuff apart, but complex wiring or woodworking is well beyond me. Would these mods be fairly easy to do, or am I asking for a lot of trouble for little improvement?