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Retrofitting X-Arcade Tankstick with 2 TurboTwist2 USB Spinners - Mame settings?
molton:
I bought an Xtension arcade cabinet to use my X-Arcade Tankstick with, which is basically the cheapest and easiest way for someone to get a Mame arcade cabinet even if they can't do woodworking or don't have $3,000. I never used my X-Arcade Tankstick too much before using it as an actual front panel for an arcade cabinet, but now that it was the front panel of my arcade machine it needed some modifications.
I added 2 Turbo Twist 2 spinners from groovygamegear.com to the X-Arcade following Roger's lead with the placement, except I turned some of the buttons near the spinner locations around to allow the spinners to go a little closer to the buttons.
I'm also planning on adding the omni2 4-way / 8-way switchable joystick, absolutely perfect for the xtension cabinet x-arcade combo, just make a hole on the bottom panel of the x-arcade and lift it up the x-arcade a little and switch it between 8-way and 4-way with no wood working except for making a big hole in a thin piece of wood nobody will ever see, I can handle that. I'll just add it on the one side because I spent enough money on this stuff already, and most 4-way joystick games only had one joystick anyway.
Fyi I used a 1 1/8” spade drill bit with nice spurred edges and I slowly drilled until the laminate came loose and started spinning as someone suggested on some forum, then continued to drill the wood at high speed after the laminate was out of the way.
...---steaming pile of meadow muffin---, I thought I was done buying stuff but then someone on this forum showed me that the x-arcade does in fact suck, well, the digital, computer end of it anyway. Someone on these boards mentioned that the X-arcade has serious simultaneous button pressing issues, he was absolutely right, I never noticed before that player 2 can completely disable all controls by smashing 6 buttons at the same time, other weird things happened like buttons that weren't being pressed were showing up during the button mash tests, this will not do at all for an arcade cabinet. Maybe as a controller that sits in the corner of my living room. I already got an Ipac on order, it looks like I'll have more than enough wire in the x-arcade already to just change a few things around and fix this problem, this is an informative website.
DarthMarino:
--- Quote from: molton on May 13, 2012, 01:58:56 pm --- x-arcade does in fact suck, well, the digital, computer end of it anyway. Someone on these boards mentioned that the X-arcade has serious simultaneous button pressing issues, he was absolutely right, I never noticed before that player 2 can completely disable all controls by smashing 6 buttons at the same time
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How long ago did you buy the X-arcade? You can buy an electronics update from the site that will solve the issue. It's a simple replacement and should solve these problems.
http://www.xgaming.com/store/x-arcade-adapters/product/x-arcade-usb-adapter/
If you aren't sure, there is a link on that page to help you identify if you have the old electronics.
molton:
I have the USB model, either mine is defective or it just doesn't work like they claim, other people have the same problems, the x-arcade is not bad, but It doesn't work with over 6-8 simultaneous inputs at a time, which sucks considering a diagonal is 2 inputs and some people like to mash many buttons at once for some reason,which interferes with the other players input on the x-arcade, or my x-arcade at least. If you have one do the diagnostic test on a mame rom with 6 buttons and an 8-way joystick and see how the game reacts when you hold sticks in diagonal position and hold several buttons.
DarthMarino:
I held diagonal and 12 buttons and it still worked fine. It didn't used to when I used USB but when I upgraded the circuit board, it fixed the issue. Just to clarify, you are having these issues and you have the bottom version in this picture?
molton:
Thanks for the reply, it must be my specific controller causing the issue, it has been like this for as long as I can remember, it is definitely the USB, newer version. I'm glad your X-arcade works fine for you, but I have heard other people complaining about this on the internet, I'm thinking either their quality control needs some work or those encoder boards are just crappy and tend to lose functionality.