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| Turnarcades:
I had many request for cabinets that could have the X-Arcade integrated into it and most people I had to turn down. For a start, the units do not integrate into any shape very well, and look ugly when they do. I've advised people against them, yet a few hacked theirs apart to integrate into their cabinet and complained they did not work well, (like it was anything to do with me!) asking for my advice. I only got chance to test one from one of my friends recently, and found the parts clunky and the encoder to suffer from ghosting. From what I found on other forums, there have been a few variations of encoder used over the years and some are better than others. Other reports suggested 'sticky' button signals (causing repetition problems), problems with the default key config on non-programmable panels (such as the 'shift' key prompting the stickykeys popup in Windows) and other probs (not reprogramming properly.) |
| wbassett:
I have a TankStick and haven't had any issues with it at all as far as ghosting or anything else. Now that I have had it up and been playing with it for 2 1/2 months I can say I don't use all those buttons! It's nice having extra buttons for the games that need it, but I found I rarely use most of them and then remembering what buttons are mapped for each game can be maddening! I bought mine because I knew the cp was going to be the longest part of my cab build, mainly because I am doing a modular CP and design and then building it is what takes the time. This way I am at least up and running and able to play. I'll probably give it to my son when I have my cp done. The components are okay, but my wife and I quickly found how awful it is to play a game that used a 4way stick with an 8way. The sticks also seem to have a bit of a longer throw than I like. That may be something that can be adjusted though, I haven't checked on that. It looks okay on my cab, but definitely doesn't look like an integrated cp. All in all I don't think it looks any better or worse than some frankenpanels I've seen, but I agree it takes away from the look of a cab when the cp isn't part of the cab. It's not junk, but also not high end or has that custom arcade look. To people that haven't seen other Mame cabs and what they can look like, they tend to think it's pretty cool. I'd say it's a good starter or good for people that don't feel comfortable building a cp right away. It fills a niche market, but there is nothing like designing and building your own integrated cp. |
| Jack Burton:
One thing I will add to this discussion is that if you think your MAME games look good on a 40 inch LCD then you will be blown away at the quality when it is properly connected to a good arcade monitor. There is simply no comparison to me. |
| RayB:
ddrtist: Pretty much everything you listed is overkill for a MAME system. (Especially 2 video cards) |
| Blanka:
You have a 7900GTX laying around for nothing? :blah: Give it to the kid next door. Its almost as good as a 8800GT and that is still a very good card. Does dvi->component really exist? How amazing. Strange those US tellies dont have RGB inputs like in Europe. That would be even easier. About the X-arcade: disassemble it and put it in your own CP. Don't know what the sticks are though. Seems like if you are going to dissasemble it, replace the sticks and the controller, you might be better off selling the whole thing and buying a new set of buttons/sticks with a minipac or so. |
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