Have they been tested on a lag-free display though, such as a 15 hz CRT monitor? I’ve seen instances of people complaining about lag on other things (Wii on an HDTV, for instance) without mentioning how good their TV is.
Does it matter how laggy the PCB is if its a complete crock of shit any ways and end up getting gutted for a much better PCB?
When someone’s trying to say it’s alright stock, yes.
I guess it really depends on the version you get. I had two Solos that worked very well for SF4 with no input lag. Stock, but with the “old” style PS3 adapter. My only real complaints about it is that American-style joysticks and buttons got REALLY tiresome for the hands and wrists after a long grinding session. The other thing is that the entire setup is simply not “centered” for your hands. Seriously, you put that thing in your lap and you’re going to have a bad time. Everything is WAY over to the left, and the buttons are in the middle of the stick.
My overall experience with them was positive, but I wouldn’t recommend it to others. I will hand it to them though, they really are “built like a friggin tank!” or whatever the motto was. Certainly would stand up to the Sanford Joystick Test.
American parts are designed with durability in mind in an Arcade environment, not precision or comfort in mind.
(Fans of American parts need not to reply)
I tried a Competition and it really wasn’t bad at all. I see some design flaws in it, but it worked fairly well. Still, a Japanese stick with a high tension spring feels a lot nicer.
Hey guys old thread but really needing help. Just brought a second hand x arcade dual joystick and am trying to connect to my pc, the website says I can purchase the serial to USB adapter but for some reason won’t work on older versions that have a ps/2 connection like mine and i can’t work out why, are they just trying to get me to buy the pcb upgrade? Can I not just buy a serial to USB cable?
Yeah, X-Arcade uses a non-standard pin out for their serial connectors. Depending on what you need, I would take out their PCB and replace it with a zero delay encoder.
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Ahh ok… I have a xinmotek 2 player pcb but didn’t wanna screw anything up inside… Im fairly confident it seems it mostly plug and play and have take photos as it is now in case something goes wrong… Woukd you reccomend just putting that pcb in and using that?
Yeah that encoder should work fine. It’s good to replace the old one anyway since it’s over a decade old by now.
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I can’t speak of stock X-Arcade sticks but, i once scored a used, mint X-Arcade Solo off e-bay. For the purpose of pulling everything out and installing my own PCB & Happ Competition stick & buttons.
As far as the case goes? It was pretty badass. I put together about 4-5 Happ sticks before switching entirely to Sanwa and, my X-Arcade Solo case build was easily my favorite.
Great thread… Had a few questions regarding X-arcade with different emulators. Were doing an own custom arcade with a computer with emus like ePSXe (Playstation), MAME, nFBA, sega mega drive emu, SNES emu, doplhin… Seems the x-arcade is giving some of the emus problems… there is eg one buttons that like pauses the game in sPSXe (guessing this emu has a standard button which does that, which is one of x-arcades mapped buttons)? Think it gives some troubles in specific games in mame and other emus aswell, think “enter” button which is standard button of x-arcade goes up in the menu and stuff… really annoying
is there anyway to get around this and play flawless on these emus or just remap the x-arcade buttons? would be insanely thankful for the help.
Most Emus let you remap inputs in the program’s menu. I forgot if The X-Arcade can be remapped or not. Some people just replace the Encoder PCB as they find it problematic