Www.eightarc.com premium tournament joystick thread

NinjaSYXX · January 18, 2012, 6:30am

My best friend just got me a ISO Fusion black for xmas and wow I REALLY love this stick! Awesome product, just a quick question tho, I do want custom art on the stick and when i downloaded the template, it’s only 1 layer on the .psd file. Is there any other template where it has multiple layers to make it easier to add the art?

ed1371 · January 18, 2012, 6:56am

Has anyone noticed an issue pressing more than one button at a time with the eightarc sticks?

Pretty early on I noticed that pressing two or more buttons together was much more inconsistent on my eightarc Pearl PS3 than on my MadCatz TE for PS3. I dismissed it at the time because I was planning to swap out the internal circuit board for a Paewang Revolution PCB from etokki.com (so I could have a dual-modded Pearl; note that this was before the release of the Pearl Fusion). However, once the project was complete, I noticed that the Paewang Revolution had the same issue!

After talking with some others and demonstrating the problem to them we’ve come to the conclusion that the electronics in the eightarc/Qanba & the Paewang/Joytron must have a faster “polling interval” than the MatCatz TE. That is, because the former two boards are looking for button presses more frequently, the margin for error is smaller (if you hit the 1st button even a fraction of a second before hitting the 2nd, 3rd, etc. then it will not count them as being pressed at the same time).

For example, if I press LP+RP (Tekken; Square+Triangle on PS3) then I ALWAYS get LP+RP on the MadCatz TE. But with both the eightarc/Qanba & Paewang/Joytron boards I am getting LP+RP sometimes & getting LP~RP (“slide” or “button-roll”) other times.

I’ve swapped out my Sanwa buttons for some other Sanwas I had laying around yet I found the EXACT same issue (I even swapped out the stick and internal wiring with the same results).

Is there anyone on these boards with enough electronics experience to explain the validity of my observations/hypothesis? I find it hard to believe that no one else has noticed this in their reviews for the sticks, but I just cannot ignore what I am seeing here…

Any assistance/explanation is greatly appreciated!

NOTE: I am not in any way bashing eightarc/Qanba products. Other than this issue, I have found the build quality of my stick to be very good. In fact, by “polling” more frequently for button presses one could say that the eightarc/Qanba (and Paewang/Joytron) circuit boards are MORE ACCURATE than the MadCatz TE!

Havent had any problem at all with my ps3 pearl. Its my main stick now and i am constantly hitting multiples to teleport all the time with sim…

Toodles · January 18, 2012, 3:57pm

Andy, would be kind enough to PM me your mailing address? I recently ran through a batch of lag tests comparing the MC Cthulhu to the Qanba board, and it didn’t play out to well for them.
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I’d like to send you an MC Cthulhu so you can perform your own tests as well so you can see how well your results compare to mine.

eightarc · January 19, 2012, 1:09am

Thanks. PM sent.

Dshiznetz · January 19, 2012, 12:27pm

heh thought i was the only one. Im getting really frustrated and im probably never gonna order anything from you guys again.

seqo · January 19, 2012, 4:09pm

Don´t you get a tracking number?

Dshiznetz · January 19, 2012, 8:57pm

Nope didn’t get one apparently you have to email them to request for one. First time ever I’ve had to ever do that when purchasing something online because whenever I do they always seem to give me one.

eightarc · January 19, 2012, 11:02pm

UPS was supposed to automatically email you with the tracking number after shipping. Please email us at info@eightarc.com and we will look up the latest status of your order. Sorry for the inconvenience.

christian707 · January 20, 2012, 3:45am

anyone have pictures of the fusion ivory? thanks idk which one to get the fusion or onyx 360

eightarc · January 20, 2012, 8:32am

Here’s a couple vids of the Fusion Ivory used by Gootecks, Mike Ross, and Combofiend.
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Dshiznetz · January 20, 2012, 1:34pm

sorry about everything, were currently waiting for the money to be added to the paypal account(says it will take about 3-5 business days WTF) my friend set up. tried to use my old one, and i think i did send you the money accidently, didn’t realize it was on the wrong bank account. Thank anyways man , well send you the money as soon as we get an email back from paypal.

eightarc · January 20, 2012, 11:00pm

No worries. We’ll ship that joystick asap once the funds go through.

eightarc · January 20, 2012, 11:02pm

We are now sold out of ISO PS3 Pearl & Xbox joysticks! Thanks for the support!!

Ama-boy · January 20, 2012, 11:17pm

Will you guys be selling your products at NCR 2012 ?

seqo · January 20, 2012, 11:48pm

Good job Eightarc, I know by self experience it´s not easy to introduce in this market, mainly because of the wide range of companies like MadCatz, hori etc … congratulations for making the market more competitive and more accessible to us consumers!:tup:

Hiryu_Saotome · January 21, 2012, 12:53am

Will you guys restock the PS3 Pearls?

darthmarth · January 22, 2012, 9:28am

I want to get a ebony fusion with black buttons and balltop. is this possible?

CerebralVortex · January 23, 2012, 3:49am

Can the Qanba handles be added to the 360 Onyx?

jinchu · January 23, 2012, 11:13am

I got my fusion ivory about a week ago and it is truly a beautiful stick, however, I’m pretty disappointed it doesn’t fit into my madcatz fightstick carrier bag. Can anyone confirm for me whether or not the Fusion can fit into the madcatz fightstick messenger bag? If so I’ll have some exchanging to do.

CerebralVortex · January 23, 2012, 11:37am

I got a messenger bag I wanna trade for the carrier bag. If it fits, maybe we can work something out.