changing x-gaming joysticks into balltops

[3dmacman]

Ponyboy has wico 3.5 - 4" balltops for sale and was wondering if anyone has ever changed there x-gaming bat style to balltop?

[RandyT]

I have, but only with a Versa-Ball

[3dmacman]

I saw your replacement handles on your site. Look very nice, but trying to keep costs down. $4 compared to $23-24? Besides those x-arcade joys only like cost me $20 for two. I know they are kind of cheap, like I said trying to keep the cost down. Maybe down the road I may pop for some of your handles, or better joys. Thanks for the input By the way I did buy a keywiz from you and still works like a charm two years later.

[davieboynj]

my x-arcade joystick got me into this sport, but i don't use them anymore...  I have a boatload of their joysticks and buttons that i'm hanging on to for "some project" / "some day".  But it's not likely to be for one that i'm going to keep myself.  Their microswitches just aren't of the same quality of anyone else's.  with the joysticks, i always had to bend the actuators to get them to have proper corners.  The "clicky-clicky-clicky" gets old as well.

They're just not worth the trouble IMO.

[Kremmit]

Wico handles definately won't swap into those sticks. 

The X-Arcade stick handle is the same as a Happ Super, and are very similar to a  Happ Ms. Pac Reunion stick.  Randy's Versaballs, the SlikStik balltops, and possibly the balltops that Tornado Terry sells for the Reunion stick are the only balltop options I'm aware of for it.