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Hawk Daddy:

I don't really want to put alot of time into soldering a bunch of wires together, and making sure that everything works good, when I can just buy an X-Arcade stick, with an xbox adapter to run my MAME cabinet.  But I want to know what do you guys think about the X-Arcade sticks, and if you didn't use an x-arcade what would be best for the xbox, hacking up a controller and wiring up my own buttons?  Maybe this should be in the console section, but it does have to do with MAME so I'm not sure.

Hawk

btp2k2:

There sticks are bad knock offs of Happ Super sticks. The shaft slides around in the base, cause the stick to get stuck in one direction for a second. It just feels cheap, and they are noisy.

If you want to go the X-Arcade route for use on your console, get the adapter and the BYO Arcade Kit from X-Arcade, then go to ultimarc or Happ and get real controls and buttons

M.Lanza:

I've got an xbox in my mame cab at the moment and i'm using
the x-arcade encoder as my interface.

With the total cost and the frustration of trying to get the encoder to
work how I needed it to, I know that If I had to do it again, I would definately
hack controllers.

If you're not building your own control panel, than the x-arcade stick sticks should work well for you.

If you are building your own cp, then beware of your control placement, because the wire harness
for the x-arcade encoder is a mess of daisy-chained wires and connectors that will only work right
with the x-arcade sticks.
If you're planning on a custom control setup, even a sf2 setup, then you will be dealing with
alot of crimping and soldering to get the wire harness to reach everything on your cp,
so you might as well hack some controllers anyway and save yourself some money.

If you want to deal with hacking a controller, The first thing you should know is that
there is no easy way to connect a microswitch to the xbox controllers analog triggers,
so you should try to get some controllers without the analog triggers, or hack some playstation
controllers and use an adapter to connect them to the xbox.

I got a street fight 15th anniversary xbox controller for $5.00 at eb games.
I think that these would be better suited for controller hacking the than regular
xbox controllers.









leapinlew:


--- Quote from: Hawk Daddy on March 24, 2007, 04:52:46 pm ---I don't really want to put alot of time into soldering a bunch of wires together, and making sure that everything works good

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Don't look now Hawk, but the name of the site is BUILD YOUR OWN CONTROLS.

Theres a reason why many of us don't use X-arcade. Even their PCB is problematic.

RayB:

I don't understand the point of losing analog controls?? ... This is like a step backwards for Xbox gaming.

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