X-Gaming X-Arcade
May 10th, 2008 
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Binding: Video Game
ASIN: B00006I5ZX
Manufacturer: Xgaming
Average Customer Review: 
(From 7 total reviews)
List Price:
Amazon Price: $129.95 (1 new available)
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Features
- It’s more than a joystick or controller — it’s a complete arcade replica with all the features you like about the top controllers on the market
- Features 20 custom-designed buttons you can program
- Also has built-in 1 or 2 player buttons and Left & Right pinball buttons
- Specially-molded twin controller sticks exclusively designed for X-Arcade
- No special drivers or hardware is needed!
Editorial Reviews
Product Description:
Dominate Fighting, Sports And Arcade Classics! Measuring in at 25 inches from side to side with 15 LBS of heavy-duty industrial grade materials, the X-Arcade Two-Player makes it feel like you are playing an arcade console. Two players can yank away at the joysticks, smash the fire buttons, and get lost in the rush of the game, the X-Arcade can take it. You don’t have to take our word for it either, we back up its bullet-proof physique with a Lifetime Warranty. With the development of MAME, you can use your X-Arcade to relive thousands of arcade classics on your PC or MAC in their original arcade form. These games are not remakes, but the original, authentic arcade games you played in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s. PC Adapter included, purchase game console adapters for $19.95 seperately.
Includes USB Connection
Customer Reviews
not for serious competition by ben chow
the construction is awesome. the joystick and buttons feel exactly like a street fighter arcade. the board is rock solid and heavy.
my main complaint though, one that i have never read before about this stick, is that while playing a fighting game such as street fighter 2 with two players, and when certain button combinations are pressed (dunno which, joystick direction/button presses on player 1 side?) the player 2 side joystick gets screwed up. for instance, down-left will just be down, up-left will just jump straight up. not only does it screw up the blocking, charging moves dont come out because the charge gets interrupted.
another way to tell there’s a problem is when a player is dizzy, tries to shake out (shake joystick in every direction and jam on all six buttons), the other players character will do random stuff!
i know there is a way to rebind the buttons to different keystrokes, but i haven’t tried to see if that fixes the problem.
but for this joystick to not work properly for street fighter out-of-the-box is just not acceptable.
(edit: i forgot to mention, i have the tankstick, the one with the trackball, but i’m guessing they both share similar circuitry)
Awesome value by R. Nguyen
You can’t get anything better for the price, unless you build one yourself. The stick is solid, buttons are spot on, and love the feel of the unit as a whole. As another reviewer said, the buttons may be a little noisy, but I think it adds to the charm, besides, with the sound turned on it’s not as noticeable.
Also, you have to rig it with a wired keyboard, and because I have a wireless one, I had to pull out my dusty old keyboard, stick it under my computer, and have that connected to the x-arcade stick.
It’s well worth it, can’t beat it for the price.
Quality Construction & Free Delivery by Christopher Fama
I purchased this item direct from the manufacturer using Paypal. Fed Ex shipping was free and I had the unit in two days. I was happy to discover it came with some vintage arcade games like Robotron 2084, which was why I bought this board. I plugged it into my PC and away I went.
I took it to my sister’s who has a hard wired keyboard and I had to connect it to the machine in a little bit more complicated way. If your keyboard is USB, you may have some problems getting the X to work as the wires are not fitted for it.
This unit is built with the same fiberboard as a real arcade game, so its totally sturdy. The controls are all high quality as well. I have had no issue with it sliding around as noted by another reviewer thanks to its rubber feet and substantial weight.
When you compare the cost of this unit versus the stand-alone Midway Arcade Classics sold by Costco ($430), this unit if a terrific value.
Nice for many classic arcade games, but the lag can be painful by Jonathan David Abbey
The X-Arcade is, as advertised, a very well constructed piece of hardware, and I certainly can’t fault the feel of its controls or the flexibility of the system.
Playing on PS2 with the adapter, however, there is some noticeable lag, presumably due to the button->serial cable->adapter->PS2 chain that the button presses have to go through. So many of the classic arcade games were based around the completely instantaneous response of the stick that the lag can really affect game play.
Also, games like Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-man, that were based around a 4-way joystick are impacted a bit further due to the X-Arcade having 8-way joysticks. When you accidentally pull on the diagonals, you just don’t know what is going to happen on screen.
Between the lag and the 8-way problem, Pac-man and Ms. Pac-man are almost unplayable. Games that originally had two-way joysticks, like Galaga and Galaxians, don’t have this problem, and it’s also easier to compensate for the slight delay on those games. Fighting games that originally came with eight-way joysticks are quite playable.
That’s all on the PS2. If you’re hooking it up to a PC for use with MAME or with a licensed retro disc, I think the results might be better. You wouldn’t have the extra lag of the adapter, and you could configure the key layout to a fare-thee-well.
I haven’t yet tried it on MAME, though, so I can’t attest to that.
I’d love to have a rig like the X-Arcade that was hard-wired as a PS2 controller so that the lag was reduced, but that would cut down on the system’s flexibility, which might cut out some of the customer base for this item, and they might have to raise the (very reasonable!) cost some to compensate for having to make the different versions.
Recommended, with these caveats.
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