

The Qanba Drone is ready for you to take with you to tournaments, too.
#Shadow blade arcade stick mod
Qanba is using its own arcade buttons and joystick, but you can mod the platform if you decide you want to go with the ever-popular Sanwa parts later on. The Qanba Drone has a decent bit of flexibility, offering X-Input and Direct Input support to use with Sony consoles and PC, though its button layout is for PlayStation games. That’s only a little more than you’ll pay for a game and pretty well in line with the price of other game controllers. The Qanba Drone lets you get in on the button-mashing, quarter-circle action of fighting games for just $80. Qanba Drone Best Budget Fight Stickįighting games are a lot easier on fight sticks, but you might not want to pay the price of a brand new game console just to get an edge in a few games. If those quality parts aren’t your personal favorite, the Mad Catz Ego is easily customizable and it even comes with a screwdriver to let you easily open it up. The Mad Catz Ego comes kitted out with Sanwa Denshi ball-top joystick (seated in an eight-way gate) and action buttons. It’s a serious boon to find something that can work for all of the platforms. It'll even work with the PS5 if you connect a DualShock 4 controller to this fight stick. As for the Xbox or PlayStation, all you need to do is plug the respective controller of that platform into the Ego. The Mad Catz Ego works seamlessly with the PCs and Nintendo Switch. At $162, it's also fairly affordable for a fight stick in a market of other $200 and $300 options. What do we mean by that? It’s a fight stick that breaks through the absurd platform-compatibility divide, stands out with quality parts, and is geared up for gamers to tinker with at their leisure. All rights reserved.The Mad Catz Ego is a fight stick that’s simply ready to go. Game impressions are © the individual contributors.
#Shadow blade arcade stick ps2
I don't own a PS or PS2 but I've kept the stick around as an example of a top-notch controller (and because I'm too lazy to try returning it). It seemed to work well in Tekken Tag Tournament on the PS2 I rented last weekend though the simple moves in that game really don't put a stick through its paces. All in all it's an incredibly impressive feeling piece of hardware, unfortunately is hasn't worked with any of the five PS-2-DC controller adapters I've tried with it. The base is metal, large, very heavy and well contoured for holding in the lap. The buttons wobble slightly if you press down on the outer rim rather than in the middle. They make a very nice little snappy pip sound when pressed. If I'm not mistaken they're even a bit larger than standard US arcade buttons spreading one hand to cover four is slightly uncomfortable for me, though I have smallish hands. The eight buttons are HUGE and, happily, concave on top. The stick has good tension (not sure how much is due to the rubber base ring) and is pretty quiet though it clicks *very* slightly.
#Shadow blade arcade stick crack
It has a rubber ring around the square base which will probably stiffen and crack after a while. The stick IS really long, kind of longer than I'd like. :( Coincidentally, I recently picked up the Interact ShadowBlade PS2 stick-it seems to be pretty much the same build as the AAS, just colored black and adjusted for PS controls. Interact's Alloy Arcade Stick has been discontinued for quite some time-I've been looking.
