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| SirPoonga:
When the hotrod says "The Hotrod Joystick cabinet measures 24 inches wide (61 cm), 11 inches (28 cm) deep, and 6 inches (15.25cm) tall and weights approximately 15-16lbs." They mean the box is that wide or the top is that wide? |
| Zakk:
I'm not "for" or "against" the Xarcade. I did a cabinet up with one just to try it out. The current owner has had it for a year, and still doesn't complain about it. For them, it is perfect. Here's the page for that cabinet: http://www.mameworld.net/massive/Cabinet/Project_X/project_x.html Now, that said, I've made quite a few cabinets since then, and I've yet to use another Xarcade, even though Happ parts end up being quite a bit more expensive. For the price of it, it's a good unit. The joysticks are a little bit loose, and the buttons are much more "clickey" then you would get from happs, but in the end, you get what you pay for, and looking at it that way, it's okay. :) |
| Molloy:
It all depends on how fussy you are. If your going to be playing Simpsons and TMNT scrolling fighters and other light sort of stuff precision won't matter that much. The X-arcade is very cheap and it does the job. However if you are the sort of person who tends to try and master more hectic shootem ups and fast paced 1vs1 fighters the buttons and stick are ultimately going to hold you back. They're much, much better than a keyboard or joypad but they don't have the sort of wonderful high precision you get from the likes of the J-stick. At the end of the day I'd settle for nothing less than the J-stick. I don't know much about american paddle sticks but in Europe and Asia everybody uses Sanwa. I've played alot of arcade Virtua Fighter 4 which requires insanely fast movements. The travel is really tiny but once you get accustomed to using a stick properly it improves your accuracy 500%. Arcade sticks shouldn't be wrestled with. You should barely move them enough to touch the contacts. The more movement the lower the accuracy. This doesn't just apply to fighters; it's equally relevant to shmup or tetris supremacy. And as for concave pushbuttons.. bleurgh! Convex is just the only way to go in my eyes. :) |
| BobA:
--- Quote from: SirPoonga on June 20, 2003, 05:57:24 pm ---When the hotrod says "The Hotrod Joystick cabinet measures 24 inches wide (61 cm), 11 inches (28 cm) deep, and 6 inches (15.25cm) tall and weights approximately 15-16lbs." They mean the box is that wide or the top is that wide? --- End quote --- They mean the top is 24 inches wide (actually 23 3/4) by 11 inches. The box underneath is only 22 9/16 wide and 8 1/2 deep. BobA |
| armad1ll0:
Hannaho Hotrod is good. They use Happ/iLorenzo parts. It really isn't that hard to "SF uppercut" from a crouch. I do like Ultimates myself but don't find them to play much different from Competition sticks which are also much better than the supers that the Xarcade are clones of. They thing is that the hardware is not all that bad but the Xarcade microswitches are pretty bad. Ultimately the Sanwa is the best. When you compare them side by side, there is no comparison. I'm working on yet another japanese stick conversion. This stick is technically a Seimitsu but they play the same. I got ahold of a few of them cheap since our arcade division dude pulled them from japanese cabs and had nothing to do with them. I can probably get a hold of a few more if you dudes are in the need of a Japanese stick local to the US. |
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