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| thedyingmatt:
Man I should have listened to everyone..... But NO!!! I had to go the "quick route" and buy this Piece of crap x arcade... Right out of the box the first player Joystick is like COMPLETELY LOOSE!! I have to push extremely hard to get it to contact any of the sensor plates... and the first button is pretty much non responsive... So we took it apart and my brother noticed that if a clamp of some sort was placed on the microswitch of the button it works fine.. In other words if you squeeze it between your fingers it works fine. But about the joystick, I was going to take the c clamp off and take out the joystick and try to "tighten" it or something? I'm really not sure really how to go about doing this so if you could reply I'd be grateful. Thank you. Matthew |
| logik:
Call x-arcade. They will ship you a new joystick and button. They have lifetime support on their controllers. |
| apeekaboo:
I had an X-Arcade before I got my cabinet. IMHO it's a great device for people who don't have room for a cabinet or for one reason or another don't want a whole cabinet. I've seen some people complain about the micro switches being cheap or too loud or whatever, but I have no complaints about them. I don't quite understand from your description what's wrong with it, but I suggest you tighten all screws and buttons before proceeding. After that you can check that the metal plates around the joystick touches the micro switches when you move the joystick around. If the plates doesn't line up properly or can't reach the micro switches you can carefully bend them in place. This can actually be used to tweak the joysticks to be more or less responsive. If you still have no go, you should probably contact X-Arcade for replacement parts. |
| thedyingmatt:
Sorry about the lack of information. I pretty much just wrote that "rant" when I just finished opening the package to find the joystick broken. But after me and my brother took apart the bottom and removed the joystick, we found surprisingly that the little cylinder of plastic that the spring goes over and keeps the joystick in place was broken off!!! So we just superglued it back on and put the joystick together and it works fine!! As with the button, I just said screw it for now and glued one of the small rubber circles that comes on the x arcade rubber feet to the switch so that it actually makes contact and "clicks" when pushed. Before it wasn't even firing correctly. So all in all I fixed the problem for now, but will be hounding X Arcade for joystick replacements and buttons. Thanks again!! Matt |
| apeekaboo:
I'm glad you solved it. Might be a good idea to hassle X-Arcade about it anyway. Maybe they can compensate you in one some way. You should at least get some replacement parts. |
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