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| aust_txv:
Greetings, I have an xarcade that I hacked up for the PCB in my CP to connect mame/DC/PS2/PS1 works like a charm. Used a real SoulBlade cp (metal added extra buttons and a Happ trackball. If you hack you will HAVE to extend the wire harness. The wires are short. I must agree with the above. I used Happ Buttons after using the xarcade buttons for a while. BUT I had the HAPP buttons from other projects. The joys and buttons are good to start with and you can always upgrade. Can't place my finger on why? but the Happ buttons feel better. Again you can always upgrade. The dimensions of the xarcade joys base are not quite Happ you would have to drill a little. Also not great for two players, a shade small if you are big. 6'2" 230 "Ding" Go for it you will like it. I did. I just always planned to use the PCB. The quality of the original was a bonus. I still have the case and plan to make another joy for PS2/PS1. Tom |
| rampy:
--- Quote from: aust_txv on June 21, 2003, 11:11:18 am ---Greetings, I have an xarcade that I hacked up for the PCB in my CP to connect mame/DC/PS2/PS1 works like a charm. Used a real SoulBlade cp (metal added extra buttons and a Happ trackball. If you hack you will HAVE to extend the wire harness. The wires are short. I must agree with the above. I used Happ Buttons after using the xarcade buttons for a while. BUT I had the HAPP buttons from other projects. The joys and buttons are good to start with and you can always upgrade. Can't place my finger on why? but the Happ buttons feel better. Again you can always upgrade. The dimensions of the xarcade joys base are not quite Happ you would have to drill a little. Also not great for two players, a shade small if you are big. 6'2" 230 "Ding" Go for it you will like it. I did. I just always planned to use the PCB. The quality of the original was a bonus. I still have the case and plan to make another joy for PS2/PS1. Tom --- End quote --- FWIW if one was intending to hacking up an x-arcade "just" for the PCB because they were doing the PC/console thing... they do sell the PCB by itself... *shrug* Heh, someone listens to the Dan Patrick show on ESPN radio =P re: the feel of the x-arcade buttons and such... mostly due to being thinner/different plastic and the cheapo microswitches (although I should try swapping a cherry in one and see if it is all of a sudden the messiah button or something =P Rampy |
| armad1ll0:
Why get an X-arcade encoder. there are so many PSX controllers that there's a PSX to whatever adaptor. I now of USB, GameCube, Xbox, and Dreamcast. What else would you want... they even have ones that work with Sony Digital pads instead of the "tricky to hack" dualshock. |
| Tiger-Heli:
Review from KillerClown at MAMEWorld here: http://www.mameworld.net/xarcade/xarcadereview.html KillerClown is fairly straight up, but I'm a little suspect when a review is written based on a company saying "here's a sample of our product, see what you think of it, comment if you want, and then you can keep it". I have heard isolated cases of blocking/dropped inputs with the X-Arcade, but never read anything official on the web about it. Don't know if these were defective units, or if the person thought the unit was misbehaving when it really wasn't. I would put more stock in the respondents on this board who have them and apparently seem to like them. Also, personally, what Rampy said (the first time), except Item 4. Underpants . . . didn't get that. |
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