Showing posts with label Arcade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arcade. Show all posts

Saturday, October 11, 2008

AKI 3.0 USB Interface


A new USB encoder is now available from B-Spec Labs. The AKI 3.0 USB Interface, successor to the AKI and SJC interfaces, is a user-configurable encoder which currently supports analog, digital, and 49-way joysticks, as well as joystick to keyboard, and joystick to mouse conversion. For more details, read the product description here.

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Saturday, September 13, 2008

Arcade-In-A-Box Slim Arcade Custom Controller Review


IGN have posted a review of the Arcade-In-A-Box Slim Arcade Custom Controller, for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC:

Ever since the first caveman programmed a lackluster port of Pac-Man for the Atari 2600, the dream of bringing the arcade experience home has been a motivating force in the game industry. But as home gaming gradually overtook the classic arcade, offering a better audio/visual experience in the comfort of your home (sans the general unpleasantness of arcade-goers), arcade-style controls were left by the wayside in favor of more compact fare. Sure, dual analog is the bee's knees when it comes to 3D gaming, but for fighting game aficionados and retro enthusiasts, nothing beats six giant buttons and a joystick.

Enter Arcade-In-A-Box, a company that uses authentic arcade parts in their console controllers for the most arcade-accurate experience this side of a 300 pound machine in your lap. We visited their shop in Tucson, Arizona for some hands-on time with their latest stick, the PS3/X360 Slim Arcade Custom Controller, which happens to be Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC compatible.

Read more at IGN.

Monday, August 11, 2008

DualStik - Arcade controller with spinner and trackball for two players.

Arcade controls posted this new project.

Added dualstik - arcade controller with spinner and trackball for two players to the example page.

The author had this to say about their project:

The dualstik consists of two controllers linked together with a 25 pin serial cable.
The master unit provides buttons, a spinner and a trackball, and can be solitary used in single player games.
The slave controller looks similar, but it only works when connected to the master, because it just holds the controls for player two and doesn't contain any logic boards. This provides for a handy size of the single unit while the duel player option is still retained.
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Friday, August 1, 2008

Street fighter 4 arcade stick


One of my favorite sites for custom made Joysticks has got to be Joystick Vault, which is a joystick image, and stick builder resource.

Such as this nice looking SF4 joystick featuring the cast of street fighter 4, which happens to be a Suzo Rotterdamn 500 Joystick.