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Wicked:
I am ready to build my cab now. I am using an Ultimate 2 cab, slikstik quad blank, and a tornado spinner. I am also going to use ultimarc ipac and vga card (pc-xpress soon as it debuts) the problem is this, I dont know what joystiks or trackball, or lightguns to get. Ive narrowed the joysticks down to the happs perfect 360 and the ultimarc ultra 360. Ive read the forums and cant tell what the consensus is on a light gun or trackball. HELP!!!

AtomSmasher:
I don't know anything about the 360 joysticks as I used regular 8-ways, but I can shed a little light on the light gun and trackballs.  There seem to be 2 options of the light gun, you can either get an act labs gun or a guncon2.  I've tried the guncon2 and it worked well enough for the most part, the problem is the drivers were still a bit buggy and caused windows to crash every so often.  They might of ironed out the problems by now (it was about 6 months ago that I tried it) and the guncon2 is much cheaper then an actlabs gun, so it might be worth it for you.

If money is no object, then get an act-labs gun.  I haven't been keeping up with whats going on with them, but the little I have read is only good things about it.  Check the hardware reviews section for several topics on it.

As for the trackball, I'm using a Happs 3'' trackball and I love it.  Happs and Ultimarc are the only two major companies I can think of that make them and you can buy them for a good deal from ponyboy or divemaster in the b/s/t forum.  I don't what other info you would want on the trackballs, they're both good so you can't really go wrong either way.

hypernova:
Trackball-Happ
Lightgun-NOT the LCD (or LED, whichever) TopGuns.  AFAIK, there's still some major problems with getting those things to work correctly.
P360-Excellent sticks.  I have two myself on my 4P panel.  I'd suggest getting some cool new colored shafts from slikstik for those.  Expensive, but totally sweet looking. 

Unless lightguns are your thing, I wouldn't worry about those till the end.  Get everything else up and running.  One step at a time.  Plus, maybe some different types or something will come out in the meantime.  I still haven't gotten mine, and I've been "finished" for awhile now.  (Still got Daphne to tweak.)

And as mentioned, use ponyboy or divemaster.  do NOT go through Happ.  They will rob you blind.

ahofle:
You will really need to be specific on what you are looking for in a joystick to have someone recommend one to you.  There is really no hands down winner for everything.  For example, if you play a lot of fighters, play shootem ups, or just Sinistar, your 'best' joystick will be different. 
For trackballs, you can't go wrong with Happs 3" IMO, but I haven't really heard anything wrong with Imperial, Ultimarc, or GGG's TBs either. 
Lightguns, there are 3 choices: Guncon2, ActLabs, and LCD TopGun.  Each one has their drawbacks and I would say there isn't a clearly superior lightgun choice either. 

Wicked:
Thanks guys, I will be going with the happs trackball, and I'll wait for the light guns, I was leaning towards the 360 but the ultimarc has gotten a lot of attention over the last week, so I was wondering if there was a hands down "better" stick between the 2. I'm going to start ordering parts tonite, hopefully I will be done by the first of august. and thanks for the heads up on divemaster and ponyboy, I was leaning toward just ordering the controls complete from slikstik

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