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Do you prefer the X-Arcade or the HotRod SE joystick?
Stingray:
You can build a stand alone control panel for far less than than $150. A little wood, an encoder, a joystick or two and a few buttons. At the most you're looking at half the cost of one of those prebuilt panels. I really don't understand why anyone buys those things.
-S
monkeybomb:
If you want to get in the water slowly I understand but realize that niether stick is good choice for a cabinet. But one of them makes a good desktop controler.
I bought a hot rod se before I even found this site and found out about how deep the hobby goes. I have also played the x-arcade and I have a set of sticks from them.
The x-arcade is junk. The sticks are crap and so are the microswitches. They make funny sounds and feel terrible if you acctually play them side by side with other sticks.
The Hod rod se in a nice little unit. You get real happs controls and the feel great. The only reason to get an x-arcade is to play with consoles and even then I would reccomend the encoder kit.
Felice:
I have an X-arcade-unit and I think it's great to begin with, because you have to start somewhere to know what you really need and want.
I choose the X-arcade because it's console-compatibility. I think no other unit has this feature?.
The sticks are good but nothing more. I have replaced the buttons en sticks after a while, which certainly gives an improvement (espec. the sticks). I read that the Hotrod has already Happ-sticks and buttons so this is maybe the best solution for you.
Dire Radiant:
Gee I must be the only one who likes my X-Arcade! ;D
Of course now it's not enough for me anymore and I'm building a new panel. Make of that what you will. To my mind the X-Arcade does the job competently enough but to be honest I would have built my own panel from day one had I not received the X-Arcade as a review sample.
SOAPboy:
Hmm..
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Yeah, id be getting the hotrod if i had to go prebuilt..