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X-Arcade Trackball for $70 + shipping = good deal?
Dougmeister:
This has to be a topic of discussion here somewhere but I can't find the thread.
Is this a good deal?
http://www.xgaming.com/trackball.shtml
lloydcom:
I don't really know about it being a good deal. Depends on your point of view.
Yes the craftmanship and quality of build warrants the $70 alone. The trackball and buttons are definately worth purchasing and it makes an ideal companion to the Xarcade Sticks.
The problem I see, and I'm sure many know this already, is purchasing this to just play a few classics, which a good mouse would suffice. Also I use an Xarcade in my cab, and it would be a real :censored: to swap it out just to play a session of centipede. Storage is a problem too.
So you would have to look at it's usefulness on the long run. I would only hope one day Xarcade will make a Stick/Trackball control panel or at least make an upgrade panel and package.
Then it would rock.
monkeybomb:
X-arcade uses cheap chinese knock off parts. They are junk. but I don't know of another unit like that one. maybe someone else knows.
Dreamwriter:
The X-Arcade trackball is in no way a "cheap Chinese knockoff". It's a good high quality 3" trackball, feels and plays just like 3" trackballs in the arcade, and is completely solid. And the rest of their stuff isn't "junk", it's all solid and built to last. The joysticks may not be quite as accurate to the arcades as other ones you can get, but they are way better than any other non-arcade joystick out there, and mine has held up for 3 or 4 years of abuse and still work perfectly. And for their buttons, I have both X-Arcade buttons and the buttons GGG sells, and they feel almost exactly the same.
monkeybomb:
--- Quote from: Dreamwriter on September 01, 2006, 07:30:35 pm ---I have both X-Arcade buttons and the buttons GGG sells, and they feel almost exactly the same.
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Then we simply disagree. I have both as well and they are world apart to me. And the parts are inexpensively made in china and resemble those designed elsewhere prior to their own design. you can name that process.