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severdhed:
one thing you need to learn is that arcade controls are not cheap.  I have around $500 tied up into my control panel. (2 players, 6 buttons each, trackball), once you factor in the cost of the wood, paint, plexiglass and hardware (hinges, corner braces).

people like to bash the x-arcade stuff, and i'm not sure why.  i had an x-arcade 2 player unit for years, and honestly i cannot tell a difference between their pushbuttons, and the happ pushbuttons i have now.  if you ditch the trackball, you can save a good bit of money, but dont expect a panel like this to be cheap.  also, if you dont have the right power tools, making your own can be difficult and time consuming. to do it right you would need a drill, saw (i used both a jigsaw and a circular saw) and a router, along with various bits which arent exactly cheap.  so  you may need to factor in the cost of tools. 


lots of people buy xarcade controllers and are pretty happy with them.  often, after a few years of use however, they seem to end up building thier own anyway. 

you can build a contoller much cheaper than i did, but i wouldn't expect for it to end up costing any less than it's xarcade counterpart.

bkenobi:
One thing that hasn't been mentioned yet is that if you do buy an XArcade stick, you can always upgrade the controls down the road.  If you don't like the stick or the buttons, they are all EASILY swappable for other units.  As long as the box is both physically suitable and aesthetically pleasing enough to you, you can mod the XArcade panel how you see fit.

Jack Burton:

--- Quote from: ropeadope on July 14, 2009, 03:40:27 am ---Has anyone told you guys you're all buzzkills :p



--- Quote from: Jack Burton on July 14, 2009, 01:33:47 am ---The X-arcade is crap for fighting games.  If you're serious about spending $150 on a joystick for Street Fighter IV forget the trac-ball and pinball buttons.  Get a TE or HRAP.

http://www.amazon.com/Street-Fighter-FightStick-Tournament-Playstation-3/dp/B001M25AY6/ref=pd_sim_vg_5

http://www.amazon.com/Playstation-Real-Arcade-Fighting-Stick-3/dp/B001GDQRZM

Both are also compatible with PCs.

--- End quote ---

The Fightstick costs $150 for one control pad (one player only). I'm sure it's nice but no thanks...

Anyone else think the X-arcade is crap for fighting games or is Jack just making stuff up?

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Look at any footage of a fighting game tournament.  You will hundreds of people walking around with every type of portable joystick known to man except for one.  And that's X-arcade. 

X-arcade joysticks are clones of the old super joystick type and are too stiff and slow for fighting games.  There buttons are not clones of Happ buttons but instead are the same as the dozens of other generic concave button types out there.  The buttons are too tall and too concave.

Go type X-arcade into the search function of forums.shoryuken.com if you don't believe me.

And Severdhed, if you can't tell the difference between an X-arcade button and a happ button then that is just you.  It's double if you use X-arcade switches instead of cherry switches.  X-arcade switches are stiffer and much louder.

severdhed:
they may feel a little different, but the noise level seems the same, and i can't honestly say that one feels better than the other.    my point is that out of the dozens of people who have used my cabinet, nobody has ever complained about the x-arcade components that were in it for a long time.  i upgraded to happ buttons because i wanted other colors, and nobody has ever said that they feel better then the old ones.

i am not a hardcore fighting game fan, if i were, it may make a difference.  personally, i think the x-arcade is a great product and a good place to start.  you can always upgrade the components later.

brandon:
you could always try to find an arcade stick for an obsolete console and do a gamepad hack on it.. Like my super awesome SNES stick that I've had since I originally bought SF2: World Warrior for SNES  :P (and spent $80!!)

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