I have owned my X-Arcade controller from Gen 1 back in the days when it only had a PS2 support! I have always wanted to add a track ball and spinner particularly to play 2 of my favourite arcade games (720 and Marble Madness), I received these yesterday and what can I say but they are excellent! You can get the real feeling of the arcade machines simple tweaking the sensitivity in MAME. The spinner is super sensitive and needs the sensitivity dropping down to like 9 or 10 to give 720 the one rotation = 1 board spin feeling.

Haven't even install them into my X-Arcade yet - I literally put a hole in the box and mounted the spinner so I could get my 720 fix last night and the track ball just rested on the pad from the box and it was Marble Madness heaven! My son soon found out just how much fun MM is with the real controller!

So today, I will be taking my X-Arcade into my shed and turning it in the equivalent of a Tank Max version!

Price wise - these are a steal! It's $50 just for the X-Arcade Trackball (which for some reason comes with 4 buttons . . . a bit pointless when I have all buttons in my X-Arcade already!) and they don't sell a spinner! So $49 for this pair is fantastic!

Salve, oggi è arrivato il mio ordine montato nel Bartop ha subito funzionato tutto plug and play.
Trackball e Spinner di ottima costruzione lo consiglio vivamente.
Thunderstickstudio molto serio lo consiglio a tutti sia per i prodotti sia per la pronta consulenza.
A presto con prossimi acquisti.
Cordiali saluti.

Salve, non appena arriva il mio ordine metterò le foto, purtroppo non è ancora arrivato quindi non posso scrivere la recensione del prodotto come funziona o come è fatto.
Cordiali saluti a presto.

Salve, grazie non appena il mio ordine arriva lo proverò subito non vedo l’ora per mettere nella recensione 5 stelle.
Dalla descrizione è un buon prodotto, presto farò altri acquisti.
Grazie infinite cordiali saluti.
Rao Domenico

First let's start with the price.
This combo's price is way more reasonable than buying these individually, and there is not a wide selection of USB spinners available anyways.
You can buy one spinner and then an encoder board for it and you will have spent enough to buy 2 of these combos nearly.
And i dont think it will actually be any better for the money spent.

Now the Spinner itself
Good heavy weighted dial, no cheap plastic one, and the bearings are smooth.
The spinner spins freely and silently and fits in a standard 30mm button hole, it's tracking is excellent.
It comes with 2 encoder wheels if you need more fine grained movement, but the default wheel already has more resolution than what one would normally need.

It is also a very sturdy assembly, so attaching the wheel adapter to play something like sprint 2 should be no problem if your control panel itself is sturdy enough

The Trackball
Well the trackball is wonderful, i saw some reviews stating it is tiny.
I have a real centipede (real not arcade 1up) trackball sitting here, this is about the same size.
It also actually rolls smoother.
Mounting is easy, it is designed to mount with the body protruding through a 1/2" wood panel, with the round collar through a plexiglass overlay.
If you want to mount differently, it is easy enough with a router if using thicker wood, or using some spacers if mounting in like a metal panel.

It has excellent tracking, no jittering or jumpiness.

If you pair this with their DIY single player kit of stick and buttons, you have your entire panel built and ready to play most any classic arcade title.