This is really cool. Out of curiosity, how have you guys found using the left thumb in conjunction with the left hand movement? I tried to learn how to use the left thumb for up just to see if some stuff would be faster and found it really difficult, especially to get diagonals on the same frame.
Takes some getting used to for sure. The thing with the Smash Box though is that the ād-padā buttons donāt directly do anything, they are modifiers for the actual movement buttons so you can kinda just anchor your thumb for things you plan to do rather than trying to make it all a smooth rolled motion like you need to do with a Hit Box. Itās overall a very different experience even if a lot of it has similar ideas behind it. Just like with the Hit Box though, once you start to wrap your head around it, you really get a feel for how snappy and smooth it is.
Hey guys. A few weeks ago I received my hitbox. I had only 2 days to play it till I had CT surgery. Since Iāve had my stitches out I have to say this nuclear gaming H bomb of devastation is by far the best stick ever.
Iāve had zero problems and it sits unbelievably comfortable in my lap. The reviews in this thread and on the net canāt do it enough justice till you play on a hitbox. I will never go back to pad or stick ever again. Its impossible too.
Now smash has a hitbox and I have no doubt that the good people at hitbox know that the ever growing smash community will embrace it.
JohnGrimm, you have PM
Hi, I bought this version of the HitBox from somebody on the internet:
The pc recognize it as āHitbox Edition Cthulhu+ā
The guy who sold me it said the hitbox was PS4 ready. I wasnt sure about the veracity of that but the price was good anyway, so I picked it. Now I want to find out if this board is compatible with PS4 by default and mainly; whats its response time - if it sucks, I will replace it by one of the ones I already have and are good ones.
PS: Im willing to do a mod on the buttonsā layout aswell, in order to place a button for the ājumpā upwards the ācrouchā button (similar to the keyboardās WASD). Do you guys knows where I can find a layout the way I need? I cant find nothing but the default layout of the HitBox in the Internet.
Yeah itās not ps4 compatible as in you cant plug it in and control your ps4 like you would with a normal controller or ps4 stick. He probably was misleading you in that some games on ps4 offer legacy support through a driver implementation. Iām not sure of the full list of them . But if you wanted it to be future proof and be able to use it on your ps4 on any upcoming games you would to have get it modded
So I ordered a PS4 hitbox, and it arrived about a month ago. Upon trying it out, I discovered the touchpad button wasnāt functioning, so I emailed the hitbox team. This was on June 17.
By the 27th, I had received no response, so I sent them a followup email, just in case my first one got lost.
Now we are at the 24th of the following month, and Iām finding my hitbox just stops functioning randomly(?) during play, and the only way to get it working again is to unplug and replug it back in.
I understand that I shouldnāt expect a response immediately, and that the team is busy, but being ignored this long is unacceptably bad customer service. I love the hitbox conceptually, and my experiences when it works have been great, so this is disappointing.
Iām pretty sure the hitbox uses the brook PCB, you need to update it. This happens with all ps4 updates
While being functionally similar to a Brook, we do not use the same PCB and using Brook software with our hardware is not recommended.
Sorry, but thatās false.
Hereās the updated firmware:
http://www.brookaccessory.com/library/dl_file.php?dir=download&filename=6cir4g4u4Mu7cmiouxKLbjAdfY%2BE9g&o_file=PS2toPS3PS4_V18_201607.zip
ā¦ So wait is it a Brooks PCB? I mean the screen grabs from their webpage showing the Firmware update process even shows the Brooks logo. Why would they deny it?
Well it depends on how you want to argue the semantics of it. Is it similar hardware and software? Yeah probably. Functionally you could call it a Brooks PCB. Is it from Brooks? No. We get our hardware and software from a different factory and supplier entirely. I say it all the time it comes up, this is just how China works. You give schematics to one factory and somehow the factory 6 cities over has the same schematic.
I say using Brooks software is not recommended because I canāt guarantee 100% reliable success. If something happens to your Hit Box because you used software for another device from another company, you were properly warned. Now if you do use their updater and it works, great! I myself however will be waiting for our own official updater from our own software dev.
Well that makes sense. Now I just wish the software updates could make their way 6 factories over a bit quicker 
. The commercial espionage that takes place over there must be fun to watch. Apologies if I made you take another swing at a dead horse.
Eli.
Your hardware is a Brook ps2 to whatever converter, with a custom breakout board that has NAND chips for hardware SOCD. The heart of it is the Brook PCB. Your software isnāt any different than what they distribute.
Iāve confirmed this with Brook personally.
Even if you want to try updating using Brooks firmware, Iām not sure how you would. The instructions for Brooks firmware asks you to hold the PS and Share buttons down simultaneously while plugging it into your computer. My hitbox doesnāt have a share function set up at all. Maybe older models are different? For the heck of it I tried the brooks update (same one linked by Vicko) and held down the PS button alone, as well as the PS button and touch pad button simultaneously. The brooks update program never even registered that it was plugged in, no matter what. I couldnāt try using the brooks firmware even if I wanted to.
I got my first hitbox ever literally five days ago. Iām sad I purchased it only to find its firmware in such an unstable state. I was extremely hype about getting it and that hype has kinda been shot in the foot. My setup at home has my ps4 across the room from where I normally sit to play, so constantly unplugging and replugging the thing isnāt a reasonable expectation to have of me. I basically havenāt even been using it. Its a $200 brick until this firmware situation gets cleared up. Which it still appears not to have been.
Share is done by start+touchpad.
I feel like I tried that too. Iāll try again tonight but Iām not hopeful. Especially not with people telling me Iām not supposed to use the firmware from the brooks site.
Furthermore, I emailed the folks at hitbox arcade, and I did get a response:
This implies there is, in fact, no share function currently. This email was from three days ago.
Well I have my Hit Box right now and I can tell you for a fact that when I push start and touchpad I get share. When youāre plugging in, try holding all 3 buttons.
There is no button combination on my hitbox that gets me the share button function, including that one. Either it wasnāt designed with one or thereās something defective going on. I suggested as much as part of my emails, and the response I got above was in regards to that. According to whoever emailed me, I donāt have a share function. I donāt know if thatās by mistake or by design, and I donāt know why its different from yours, but it is.
And no, holding all three buttons definitely does not allow me to use brooks update software.
For the record, because I donāt have a touchpad button, I ALSO donāt have a share button. Iāve not been able to get the brooks firmware update working either.
Iām willing to work through problems, but that would require the hitbox guys to actually respond to my email.