Hi everyone,
Firstly - before anyone shoots me down in flames for posting on the worong Discussion thread - i'm a complete n00b to all this (in fact this is my first online review of anything ever lol!), anyway here goes,
I ordered this behemoth from e-buyer last week (who kindly decided to deliver a week early instead of next Wednesday - cheers guys
) after signing up to NTSC-UK and posting a link to it in the bargains thread.
All I can say is that this thing, this item of plastic, MDF and metally springy bits has re-awakened my passion for my collection of MAME roms like nothing else has in the past 5-6 years. I'm quite a critical, pernickety old codger when it comes to build quality but this thing really is built like a brick s**thouse (if not better). The one thing I thought about last night whilst I tested it wasn't the microswitched responsiveness or the smooth control of the joystick, the ease of setup or the lack of USB lag - it was this - my love of gaming has returned, man I feel like I was playing with Jesus's golden balls of fire...
If anyone has any doubts about buying this go ofr the one player version lol... No seriously it really does bring back the memories of standing in a dingy arcade in Birmingham (was called Dayvilles Ice cream parlour on New Street I think) and watching preposterously medallioned black and asian guys kicking the s**t out of each other on Street fighter II and Rastan whilst we all stood round trying to act all grown up by buying packs of fags from the cigarette machinefor ?2 a pop.
Look at it this way - if your feeling jaded about current games (and the expense involved) get yourself
1) a mid range PC and decent flatscreen monitor if you don't already have one
2) go to www.pcstats.com and follow their outstanding tweak guides to get rid of all the XP bloat, it really makes XP fly like hot marshmallows off a shovel.
3) Buy the X-Arcade from www.ebuyer.com
4) Install MAME32fx and some classic ROMsets
5) Tweak around plug in and enjoy!
Trust me you'll never look back - It's that good (my stepson loves it too!).
Happy New Year,
Ifty
Firstly - before anyone shoots me down in flames for posting on the worong Discussion thread - i'm a complete n00b to all this (in fact this is my first online review of anything ever lol!), anyway here goes,
I ordered this behemoth from e-buyer last week (who kindly decided to deliver a week early instead of next Wednesday - cheers guys
) after signing up to NTSC-UK and posting a link to it in the bargains thread.All I can say is that this thing, this item of plastic, MDF and metally springy bits has re-awakened my passion for my collection of MAME roms like nothing else has in the past 5-6 years. I'm quite a critical, pernickety old codger when it comes to build quality but this thing really is built like a brick s**thouse (if not better). The one thing I thought about last night whilst I tested it wasn't the microswitched responsiveness or the smooth control of the joystick, the ease of setup or the lack of USB lag - it was this - my love of gaming has returned, man I feel like I was playing with Jesus's golden balls of fire...
If anyone has any doubts about buying this go ofr the one player version lol... No seriously it really does bring back the memories of standing in a dingy arcade in Birmingham (was called Dayvilles Ice cream parlour on New Street I think) and watching preposterously medallioned black and asian guys kicking the s**t out of each other on Street fighter II and Rastan whilst we all stood round trying to act all grown up by buying packs of fags from the cigarette machinefor ?2 a pop.
Look at it this way - if your feeling jaded about current games (and the expense involved) get yourself
1) a mid range PC and decent flatscreen monitor if you don't already have one
2) go to www.pcstats.com and follow their outstanding tweak guides to get rid of all the XP bloat, it really makes XP fly like hot marshmallows off a shovel.
3) Buy the X-Arcade from www.ebuyer.com
4) Install MAME32fx and some classic ROMsets
5) Tweak around plug in and enjoy!
Trust me you'll never look back - It's that good (my stepson loves it too!).
Happy New Year,
Ifty
) (I've only got a handful of selected games before anyone starts getting all feisty!)
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