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| DarthMarino:
I just find it strange that your controller is doing the exact same thing that mine did with the old circuits. I would do what you said, and usually my character would get "stuck" for a few seconds. I can't get it do that now. I am actually using a regular dual x-arcade so I'm not sure if it's a different circuit board than the tankstick. Have you tried contacting them? The unit is guaranteed for life so they need to replace something if its faulty. |
| molton:
I think this is possibly a matter of crappy quality control, and possibly a crappy conversion of their old boards to their new boards. I did talk to x-arcade and they gave me a vague answer, practically exactly your response DarthMarino, when I asked them for a more comprehensive response they told me that all the techs are away and they'd get back to me, I told them I already ordered an I-PAC and I had enough of this -> :blah: |
| btakem:
>> 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 I had issues with USB and the 6 button problem too. This exists with a LOT (if not all?) of standard USB keyboards normally (try it!). My solution to this was to hook up the PS2 instead and through this, I can receive EVERY button pressed at the same time plus two joysticks going diagonal without any problems (can't trigger all four joystick dirs at once <grin>). One issue that exists in doing this is that I also had to have a real PS2 keyboard connected through the TankStick too. After that was done, multi-smashing buttons was a dream again. I think I remember that some odd PS2 keyboards weren't happy through this - normal generic memorex PS2 keyboard worked great for me. Fast reaction times too and no lockups or lags on my end. Look up the USB spec for keyboards and you'll see LOTS of problems with simultaneous keys. The USB GP-Wiz40 gets around this issue by being a USB multi-button game controller rather than a USB keyboard if you're looking at another controller, but the TankStick (in PS2-mode) works great for me. Hope this helps if it wasn't answered before by anyone else? My trackball is USB. The only real issue I can see with this is legacy-free motherboards - D'oh! You're fubar'd there... |
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