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Fairly competitive pricing. Considering the shipping if you bought off YAJ. No Taito Station Vol 2 though. People need that, it's great. I am (this close) to buying that damn trackball.So you can get all this stuff directly from Amazon US now.
https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/ED872D06-C9E2-4E0E-9B25-09B961DF830C
Taito Egret II Mini - Limited Blue Edition $230
Taito EGRET Ⅱ Mini - Paddle and Trackball Game Expansion Set $120
Taito EGRET Ⅱ Mini - Control Panel $90
Taito EGRET Ⅱ Mini - Control Pad $35
I caved on this when I saw it on Amazon, got the unit today with trackball/paddle arriving tomorrow. As has been noted, it's extremely cool. The Astro City Mini is fine and I also have the Neo mini cab, but this one is significantly better than either one at first impression.
So many really great games with what appears to be very good emulation and I'll be damned if rotating the screen isn't awesome every single time.
It's OK. I thought the trackball was terrible at first, but just needed to up the sensitivity in menus. It still doesn't feel as heavyweight as one you'd find in an actual cab like golden tee though but it gets the job done. I like the spinner more, and it feels really solid but I can't remember if I turned the sensitivity up for that too.
Games are mostly mediocre but Cameltry is super cool with the spinner and I end up playing bowling the most with the trackball.
The one thing that pisses me off to no end though is that the memory card with the games doesn't just add them to the menu with everything else. If you have the mem card in then you can only play trackball/spinner games. To play the main set, you have to take the mem card out so I think there is a real risk of losing the memory card at some point if you aren't careful.
Trackball/paddle makes a terrible first impression. So far, it works flawlessly (for me at least) with Arkanoid 2 and none of the other nine games. Seems like maybe they're defaulting to two-player but not recognizing a controller? I dunno, but man, it's not good. Trackball works in the menus but then nothing happens at all in game when I use it or paddle. Does a firmware update fix this?It's OK. I thought the trackball was terrible at first, but just needed to up the sensitivity in menus. It still doesn't feel as heavyweight as one you'd find in an actual cab like golden tee though but it gets the job done. I like the spinner more, and it feels really solid but I can't remember if I turned the sensitivity up for that too.
Games are mostly mediocre but Cameltry is super cool with the spinner and I end up playing bowling the most with the trackball.
The one thing that pisses me off to no end though is that the memory card with the games doesn't just add them to the menu with everything else. If you have the mem card in then you can only play trackball/spinner games. To play the main set, you have to take the mem card out so I think there is a real risk of losing the memory card at some point if you aren't careful.
Thank you, noted. I updated FW when I got mine...but yeah that sounds like no bueno.Trackball/paddle makes a terrible first impression. So far, it works flawlessly (for me at least) with Arkanoid 2 and none of the other nine games. Seems like maybe they're defaulting to two-player but not recognizing a controller? I dunno, but man, it's not good. Trackball works in the menus but then nothing happens at all in game when I use it or paddle. Does a firmware update fix this?
Agreed on how dumb it is to have a new menu with none of the original games.
How TF does a company get the basic thing so right but fuck up everything else so bad? Feels like a bad cash grab on fans, definitely not recommended in its current state. AND FUCK ME it's priced at 60% of the main unit. Don't waste money on this unless Taito (Squeenix, I guess) fixes it.
Main unit still rocks just don't buy this crap add-on.
As it turns out, I am in fact apparently retarded, as it dawned on me that having multiple USB ports might not all work the same. Checked it again tonight and yeah, they're separated to individual player outs, not just universal ports. The one that's closest to the left side, when facing the unit at least, actually activates as 2P for most games (but not all, some are universal, oddly).Thank you, noted. I updated FW when I got mine...but yeah that sounds like no bueno.