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One of X-arcade’s customer service folks called me after I put in the cancellation request.

The rep admitted that the stick was known to be laggy on the Xbox console, but swore up and down that it would be lag free on the PS2. He sounded sincere, so I ended up just cancelling the order for the Xbox adapter.

He said that I’d be able to return the stick if I’m unhappy with its performance on the PS2, I’d just have to absorb the cost of shipping.

Here’s hoping I’m not playing the chump. There are cheaper ways to humiliate one’s self.

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i still use one for ps2 once and awhile, lag free. if it lags on your ps2, call the BBB or something.

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Street fighter anniversary stick with happ mod, OWNS the X-Arcade any day of the week, Yeah!

Hella cheaper too.

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jsheppar, do you work for X-Arcade company? OK, you don’t must answer, I know: YES.

My first arcade parts were X-Arcade (I still have one AS with X-Arcade parts but don’t use it). I have too: T-Stik, J-Stik (Sanwa JLW), P360, Ultrastik360, Seimitsu LS-32, Seimitsu LS-40. Buttons: IL Ultimarc, IL SlikStik, Sanwa, Seimitsu.
X-Arcade is weakest, no compare to my other arcade parts.

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…my poor money. :sad:

Something like this happened when I bought an unscan converter. I bought the shittiest one I could possibly buy. But then, it was the cheapest one I could possibly buy, too. No surprise there, I guess

Well, I learned my lesson. I wasn’t going to skimp on my joystick, oh no! I was going to spend money on it.

So I buy the joystick that offered the worst dollars to shittiness ratio out there. I mean, I could have bought a cheaper joystick that sucked just as much as the x-arcade, but offered more shitty for the dollar.

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I think there should be a sticky on sticks about what to buy and what shouldn’t even be named. Kinda of a n00b faq.

I’d be pleased to help. Anyone who likes this idea, pm me

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Well, I’ve just finished putting an hour of Guilty Gear Slash in on the thing.

I used the X-arcade in port one and a PS2 control pad in port two to test it out on Slash. It seems not to suffer from any input lag at all, at least as far as the button presses were concerned; my HOSs seemed to be in perfect sync. The joystick was a bit trickier for me to test due to the problem I had with hitting the diagonals. If this thing suffers any input lag on the PS2, it’s gotta be in the joystick, and there’s not much of it at all.

Verdict: No to insignificant input lag on the PS2.

I don’t feel like pulling my Xbox out of the closet right now, but I’m sure the input lag that others here have noticed, and which the rep I spoke to on the phone acknowledged, will be waiting for me when I finally get around to testing it.

The diagonals are a bit tricky to hit. I think the makers of the stick envisioned people using it to play old school, 4 directional games, where diagonals can count as no direction being pressed at all. I might follow the advice of a reviewer I read and crack open the thing to adjust the contact leaf if I can’t get used to the diagonal sensitivity.

It’s not bad on the PS2. Not bad at all.

…however, it’s not as affordable as other joysticks out there, and it simply can’t be recommended to anyone looking for a joystick to use with their Xbox.

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i don’t know why you would make that kind of assertation, clearly you haven’t read the entire thread.