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the arc MIDI r2 by fractal design features massive air flow and highly flexible liquid cooling support click now to learn more welcome to my unboxing of something that's actually really really exciting this is the 8 rocks from Razer they have sent a metric but ton of time developing this product in collaboration with gamers who really understand what you need in a fight stick because it is a very specialized piece of hardware for the kinds of people who I think that their blurb on the side of the box really will speak to those guys that are going to care about the tactile feedback of the buttons on a fight stick the way that geeks like me care about the tactile feedback on something like a keyboard so they have this whole long thing and that basically ends with forged from the fires of an arcade gaming legacy the Razer aatrox is in the most primeval sense bred to fight so they are looking to a replicate or at least get as close as possible to the feel of an actual arcade with well I mean by the time you buy one of these and then stop going to arcades and feeding endless amounts of money into the machines they're actually it starts to look like a pretty good pretty good value although it isn't inexpensive and there's a very good reason for it so the Atrix comes in a nice colorful outer box and then a more simple sort of what we've come to expect from their system components brown box and the usual excellent Razer packaging with a letter from their chief gamer as well as some instructional guides and all those kinds of things that you may actually need for this product because there are some cool features that you're going to want to use for sure you also get a couple of Razer stickers which you can go ahead and stick on this product or on something else first things first that foam check it out love it nice closed cell foam the fight stick might be ruggedly built but they're not taking any chances and that thing will arrive in one piece I can pretty much give that my personal guarantee it also comes packed in an electrostatic Bay which blew and I almost dropped it yep we were going to do a rugged ability durability test right there just like that and finally some plastic covers that keep it from popping open during shipping because the inside of the fightstick does come apart so let's start with an exterior tour so the first thing we're going to see is this is an Xbox optimized controller so you're going to have an Xbox button as well as default key mappings to all of the Xbox controller functionality that you would expect except for this guy right here obviously there's only one analog stick however you can rebind that two left stick right stick or d-pad as you see fit with the dip switch up here you can also unlock and lock this stuff so that if you accidentally mash something in slip it's not going to go ahead and go to the menu of your Xbox or anything like that in the middle of the gaming session they're using genuine Sanwa components however you might decide that you want something completely different and that is where the customizability comes in so that is for both the joystick as well as the eight buttons over here check this out let's open this up using the button right here actually okay no no no no I didn't finish the outside yet okay sorry so start and back or over on the right over here and then over here we find nothing but the interface connector so that's for the four meter included cord so you're going to be able to sit adequately far away from your TV then here we've got nothing here we've got that button that I teased you about before but you know don't worry we'll actually show it to you later and then on the bottom we find a nice rubber pad that's going to allow it to sit on your lap or on a desk or wherever else you prefer to put it without it slipping so now we can open up and have a look at the inside this is where things get really cool so there's a nice little hydraulic thing right here that opens up and allows it to not you know close on its own accidentally you've got a convenient little color labeled action button guide up here and all of the buttons are completely swappable simply by there we go and there's a way to do this I'm quite certain of it yes there we go simply by popping off the leads and then popping them through the front of the device just like that so you can change out for a completely different tactile feel should you so desire and they wanted to make it as modder friendly as possible so same thing here so you can swap out the joystick in fact it includes a different joystick knob if you hit joystick knob if you prefer that so there's a ball one on there now and this is get sealed in the bag there it is there we go so there's the alternate knob that's also included and then they've got what their but I guess I would call like modding friendly mounting points down here so you can actually mount additional component tree or whatever else you want to do in order to customize the fightstick and these are all meant to have screws driven into them so you can put you know PCBs or whatever else you would desire to do it also includes a flathead and Phillips combo screw driver although I'm sure if you're really that into these things you're going to have your own screw driver at this point in time as well as the four meter wire that I mentioned before so we can find out how long this is in - arm lengths but it might actually take a while okay so basically it's really really long it terminates in a standard breakaway connector so you xbox folks will probably going to be familiar with this one but of course it also runs from off USB so it does work on the PC just fine which is excellent for folks like me who are going to be using it there so since we showed you guys the button swapping procedure which was very straightforward you can actually open up this box right here as well if you want to really get into the nitty-gritty of things so all you got to do is go ahead and hold that screw in place and then you can swap out the stock joystick there we go which actually has a different texture to it as well so the bat one has a bit of a of a rough texture and then these the spherical one has a glassy texture so you just go ahead and screw that back on I'm just holding this in place with my finger for now and then I can go ahead and use the included tool there we go lock that into place now I missed something on the outside before and that was the Xbox headset connector down here so you're not going to have to worry about not having voice communication and I also wanted to go into little bit more depth about these guys right here so these are turbo buttons you can program them completely without any software which is great because you're not going to be expected to install a driver on your xbox dur so all you got to do is there's a button combination I forget what it is but it's something to do with holding like one and eight and something else anyway so you can program them for either a four four actions per second repeat rate or an eight actions per second repeat rate and then you bind them to any particular button that you want so it glows solid when it's set to four and it glows or blinks rather when it's set to eight and then it's not illuminated when the turbo functionality is off so that's definitely something that you're going to want to set up pretty much immediately when you're aatrox arrives thank you for checking out my unboxing and overview that also missed yet another thing you can swap out the graphics on the top should you so desire it's part of the whole modular design concept thing you just undo these screws you can put in whatever artwork you want and now I'm actually done click like on the video if you liked it click dislike if you disliked it leave a comment if you really disliked it and don't forget to share if you think anyone might find this little guy kind of cool