WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.880 About a year and a half ago, I was publicly humiliated on Tekken's smallest stage. 00:00:04.880 --> 00:00:07.920 It was a fly-quest weekly. It didn't mean anything. 00:00:07.920 --> 00:00:14.400 And Joe Crush, one shot me. And even Horata himself said that that was awesome. 00:00:14.400 --> 00:00:18.640 And today I'm coming out of retirement to talk about the junk food swirl. 00:00:18.640 --> 00:00:24.480 It is a leverless controller, fight stick, pad. All of those combined and it has balls. 00:00:24.560 --> 00:00:30.400 So if you're not familiar with junk food arcades, they are a leverless fight stick company based 00:00:30.400 --> 00:00:36.960 in the United States and they have their flagship product. It is called the Snackbox Micro. 00:00:36.960 --> 00:00:41.040 There's many different controllers that one might use for fighting games such as Street Fighter or 00:00:41.040 --> 00:00:45.520 Tekken if you're going to get one shot. There's a traditional game pad such as the PS5 controller, 00:00:45.520 --> 00:00:49.120 which is the one that most people prefer because of the D-pad. And then there are more legacy 00:00:49.120 --> 00:00:54.400 controllers such as a fight stick or a arcade stick as you know the old ones might call it. 00:00:54.720 --> 00:01:00.000 Here we have a leverless controller. It's sort of a leverless controller. It's kind of hard to 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:07.280 describe what this actually is. It's a sort of a weird hybrid of a leverless controller and a 00:01:07.280 --> 00:01:12.640 game pad, I guess. And so junk food decided that, you know, why have both a PlayStation controller 00:01:12.640 --> 00:01:17.840 and an arcade stick when you can just combine the two? And I guess that's how the swirl came to be. 00:01:17.840 --> 00:01:24.080 On the left here we have a more WASD traditional layout of a keyboard and then we have a more 00:01:24.080 --> 00:01:28.800 fighting game-centered layout here on the right of the swirl. The elephant in the room here are 00:01:28.800 --> 00:01:35.760 these two giant... At the bottom of the controller we have their thumb domes and they are hall effect 00:01:35.760 --> 00:01:40.800 sticks and they offer superior accuracy and responsiveness. But before we continue on, 00:01:40.800 --> 00:01:44.960 let's take a look at what else you get inside the case. It actually comes with a really nice 00:01:44.960 --> 00:01:52.240 carrying case. This is nice. It comes with an angled USB-C to USB-A sleeved cable. Yeah, 00:01:52.240 --> 00:01:57.760 it's about six feet long. So, you know, when you're at a setup or something, good amount of length 00:01:57.760 --> 00:02:02.640 between you and the screen, even though your opponent might be like right next to it. I hate 00:02:02.640 --> 00:02:07.680 those guys. You got some propaganda stickers. Very nice. And then it comes with a welcome to the 00:02:07.680 --> 00:02:15.360 swirl family with a swirl QR code. Now this is epic. Overall, first impressions. It looks 00:02:16.320 --> 00:02:22.880 cool. I mean, it's a design that I don't think I've ever seen. One really interesting thing, 00:02:22.880 --> 00:02:29.520 though, is you market this towards fighting game players and like controller players because 00:02:29.520 --> 00:02:37.600 it's supposed to be the best of both worlds. But this WASD layout here is not really what we use 00:02:37.600 --> 00:02:42.000 on levelless controllers. Like on levelless controllers, it's usually just the bottom three 00:02:42.080 --> 00:02:48.320 buttons here. And then there's actually a center button here for jump, jump or up. Like, it's 00:02:49.200 --> 00:02:53.920 so I'm surprised that there's no actual button for that so that you could like map it to that. 00:02:53.920 --> 00:02:58.880 So that's really interesting because I get the vibe more that this is like just a replacement 00:02:58.880 --> 00:03:08.640 of a keyboard. And then they just added some thumb gums. The pattern here is I'm not the biggest 00:03:08.720 --> 00:03:13.680 fan of this pattern. There's a whole bunch of different fight stick patterns layout. It's like 00:03:13.680 --> 00:03:17.360 this. I'm more used to this sort of layout where it tapers down. Some of them they like to go 00:03:17.360 --> 00:03:21.920 straight across like this, like the Razer Katsune. On the top, we got the USB-C port. Nice to always 00:03:21.920 --> 00:03:26.800 have the universal connector, have a detachable USB-C cable. My fight stick is not detachable. 00:03:26.800 --> 00:03:31.600 And every day I worry that it's going to break. On the bottom here, you know, we got a nice foam 00:03:31.600 --> 00:03:35.440 sort of like cushioned bottom, which is nice because when you use these, you usually don't 00:03:35.440 --> 00:03:40.720 actually use them on desks. They're usually built to be put on your lap. This button is the home 00:03:40.720 --> 00:03:45.920 button. This is the select button. This is the start button. We got the touchpad button here. Then 00:03:45.920 --> 00:03:50.240 we got the edit button and the profile button. So I'm assuming you can assign different profiles to 00:03:50.240 --> 00:03:55.200 this and then you can kind of hot swap it between games. So before I continue, I want to talk about 00:03:55.200 --> 00:04:00.160 getting one shot in Tekken. Nobody talks about that I actually took two games off of Joe Crush. 00:04:00.160 --> 00:04:07.360 I just got one shot. So that's it. So one thing I do notice about these buttons is I believe they 00:04:07.360 --> 00:04:14.160 are all key switches. They feel like Cherry MX Browns. If I rip one of these off, whoa. Yeah, 00:04:14.160 --> 00:04:19.280 these look like just Cherry MX clears. You know, I'm sure somebody in the comments will correct me 00:04:19.280 --> 00:04:24.560 about that. And I guess they are just hot swappable. So you can just rip them out of the PCB and stick 00:04:24.560 --> 00:04:28.880 them back in with all these junk food, loverless controllers. They try to keep it pretty thin. 00:04:29.840 --> 00:04:34.640 So they use these key switches instead of the typical like Sanwa Denshi buttons that you find 00:04:34.640 --> 00:04:39.360 in regular fight sticks. Definitely prefer those. They just feel like I'm at an arcade machine, 00:04:39.360 --> 00:04:44.880 not that I'm old enough to know what that's like. But it's just good fun. One thing I do notice is 00:04:44.880 --> 00:04:52.000 that there's already a bunch of fingerprints. Holy moly. I mean, my fingers are pretty grimy. I don't 00:04:52.080 --> 00:04:59.200 know why I wish I could fix that. I'm a stick player. I have the Toki Omni and the artwork 00:04:59.200 --> 00:05:04.320 is impossible to swap on that. This one, they advertise it as it's a, it's just a magnetic 00:05:04.320 --> 00:05:11.920 top plate. Plexi off. Whoa. There's the Plexi taken off. And now we got the artwork. I mean, 00:05:11.920 --> 00:05:18.000 it's just a piece of paper, which is great because this is the most effortless way of taking off 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:22.400 fight stick artwork that I think I've seen in a long time. This being magnetic is actually 00:05:22.960 --> 00:05:28.080 awesome. You can clean this so easily. I can just run it under some water and give it a nice wash. 00:05:29.040 --> 00:05:36.880 So I'm assuming these buttons are like X square triangle circle. R three L three are actually 00:05:36.880 --> 00:05:43.520 here, but then these do actually click down. So that's really, I mean, we'll see. I guess we'll 00:05:43.520 --> 00:05:48.080 test them out, which I guess we'll do. Me and Bella are going to fight after this word for more 00:05:48.080 --> 00:05:55.040 sponsor. All right, we're here in the web app now for the junk food swirl. And I mean, looks like 00:05:55.040 --> 00:06:00.480 you can remap quite a few things. You can change the controller name. You can change the analog 00:06:00.480 --> 00:06:05.840 sensitivity. They got firmware updates connected. You can disconnect it by just clicking it. 00:06:08.560 --> 00:06:11.360 I don't know why you would do that. You can just rip it out of the port. I mean, 00:06:11.600 --> 00:06:15.600 it seems like a lot of people actually have complaints about the software for this thing. 00:06:16.320 --> 00:06:21.440 It might have been a little undercooked. I mean, the UI is great. It looks easy enough. You know, 00:06:21.440 --> 00:06:28.480 you got different profiles so you can like swap. You got up to five profiles. You can import profiles 00:06:28.480 --> 00:06:33.680 from other people. So you got that sense of the swirl community. And then you got export profile 00:06:33.680 --> 00:06:39.600 files. So that's how you share your swirl profile with the swirl community. So here we have the 00:06:39.680 --> 00:06:44.720 basic variant of the swirl. There's actually a second variant called the multi console. The 00:06:44.720 --> 00:06:50.880 basic variant of the swirl only works on switch and PC, but the multi console version works on 00:06:50.880 --> 00:06:56.560 Xbox and PlayStation, which is something to keep in mind because most tournaments nowadays are run 00:06:56.560 --> 00:07:01.520 on exclusively PS5. If you're going to bring this to tournaments and you're going to, you know, 00:07:01.520 --> 00:07:07.920 game it up and go oh two in the tournament, you know, you can't connect this without either the 00:07:08.000 --> 00:07:14.560 brook converter to PS4 to PS5, which adds a little bit of latency or spending the money for the 00:07:14.560 --> 00:07:21.440 multi console variant. Let's game. That was scary. No, no, no, one more time. Don't use that one, 00:07:21.440 --> 00:07:27.440 Connor. I swear. So it does seem like these four buttons here are the actual buttons to be using. 00:07:28.160 --> 00:07:33.520 So it's like your typical street fighter layout. It still is weird to have jump up here. Like I 00:07:33.520 --> 00:07:37.840 said before, most leverless controllers, the jump is actually down here and you're usually just 00:07:37.840 --> 00:07:42.320 playing with like the three bottom ones because I mean, you're just trying to hit quarter circles. 00:07:43.120 --> 00:07:49.200 So other than that, though, it feels very good. How do you feel with the loudness of the keys? 00:07:49.200 --> 00:07:52.560 So like the loudness of the keys, I slam my keys pretty hard when I play the game. 00:07:53.600 --> 00:07:59.520 I mean, I just like how the keys feel when I am gaming it up. I mean, it's as responsive as I 00:07:59.520 --> 00:08:04.160 would expect from a brook board. I will say, though, I'm just trying to see the sensitivity on the 00:08:04.160 --> 00:08:11.040 keys because with Sunwa buttons, like the lightest touch will actually activate the button on these 00:08:11.040 --> 00:08:16.320 keys. There definitely is like an actuation point. So it's nothing like too crazy. But when I like, 00:08:16.320 --> 00:08:22.720 I can hit here and nothing is actually happening on screen. But then like when I actually get to the 00:08:22.720 --> 00:08:27.840 point of actuation, there is so it is like just a regular key switch. It's not like a typical 00:08:27.840 --> 00:08:33.280 arcade switch, the Sunwa button that you know, we all know and love. I do usually play on my lap, 00:08:33.280 --> 00:08:37.600 though. I don't have enough space on my desk at home. This feels pretty good. I'm going to say 00:08:37.600 --> 00:08:42.560 something that's a big no-no. It's almost like mall grabbing your skateboard. I'm going to use the 00:08:43.600 --> 00:08:49.760 the stick. The dome. The dome. I'm going to use the thumb dome. The thumb dome, 00:08:50.880 --> 00:08:56.640 it's just not for fighting games. See, you just don't get like the precision you get with a d-pad 00:08:56.640 --> 00:09:02.320 or like WASD with the thumb dome. I mean, like I just have no idea. There's no click. I mean, 00:09:02.320 --> 00:09:08.560 it's doable, but I would not recommend using the thumb dome. So I'm not absolutely smurfing. I've 00:09:08.560 --> 00:09:12.720 been matched against a Platinum player. He's going to be playing Ed here. I mean, this guy has no idea 00:09:12.720 --> 00:09:23.520 who he's playing against. He's like, who is LTT benchmark? Boom. Round one is a dub for me. 00:09:23.520 --> 00:09:31.680 Oh no. I got him with the wake up level three as the pros do. 00:09:34.240 --> 00:09:39.200 Guys, do I rematch him? You have to rematch, right? I'm going to use the thumb domes here 00:09:39.200 --> 00:09:44.640 and you're going to just see me get slammed because I don't know. I don't have the precision that I 00:09:44.640 --> 00:09:50.800 want with these domes, at least in the fighting game. Oh, I swapped back to the keys. I like the 00:09:50.800 --> 00:09:56.320 keys too much. Okay, he's just, I mean, he's just throwing things out in neutral. This guy got no 00:09:56.320 --> 00:10:01.200 neutral. So why don't we hop into another game and we'll test out the thumb domes in like a shooter. 00:10:01.200 --> 00:10:05.840 Okay, so we got Cyberpunk going. I mean, this is the smoothest Cyberpunk has ever been for me. 00:10:07.360 --> 00:10:14.240 5090, by the way. Here we go. I'm going to give you that cinematic E3 trailer look. If you just 00:10:14.240 --> 00:10:22.000 love fight sticks and you just want it to be your everything, I mean, I guess that's what this is for. 00:10:22.000 --> 00:10:26.720 Like you just never have to own like a PlayStation controller ever again. You know what? Honestly, 00:10:26.720 --> 00:10:32.960 I'm finding aiming quite easy and it's actually quite fun. I mean, this is pretty doable. I mean, 00:10:32.960 --> 00:10:38.720 you got to get used to the layout in a way. This is not bad. I thought it was going to be way worse. 00:10:38.960 --> 00:10:42.880 Um, I can't lie. Oops, sorry. It's Tekken time. 00:10:45.760 --> 00:10:49.600 All right, I'm challenging you to Tekken 8. I saw you got one-chotted. I've never played 00:10:49.600 --> 00:10:54.960 Tekken 8. I haven't played Tekken since like Tekken 2, but I'm feeling confident. Okay. Also, 00:10:54.960 --> 00:10:58.880 I'm using an Xbox controller. I have it. Yeah, you better not use the left stick. You better use 00:10:58.880 --> 00:11:03.760 the deep end. You're using a special style. I didn't mean to. I don't know what these buttons do. 00:11:03.840 --> 00:11:09.760 Oh, no, I have, I don't remember a single combo. Wait, I actually just got, 00:11:11.200 --> 00:11:16.080 I lost. Please, please, please. I lost. It's going to kill. I know it's going to kill. I'm not going to watch. 00:11:18.640 --> 00:11:24.720 Oh, we hate to see it. So if you didn't know, the trick to Tekken is, 00:11:24.720 --> 00:11:29.440 is you don't hold down back like Bell is doing. Why? Because then you get launched like that. 00:11:30.400 --> 00:11:36.240 He burst, he burst. Oh my goodness, dude. He just keeps ripping rage art. Special move, 00:11:36.240 --> 00:11:43.840 special spot style. Oh, you died. It doesn't kill. But watch this. 00:11:47.600 --> 00:11:55.200 What the, he had a vacuum. Okay, guys. He's just mashing the rage art every time. Listen, why did they put it in the game 00:11:55.280 --> 00:12:00.640 if they don't want me to do it? That's so true. No, no, no. I got him back. I got him back. 00:12:00.640 --> 00:12:06.960 I got him back. She hit me in the doiner. Okay, get me. All right. I saw how you lost. I'm going to 00:12:06.960 --> 00:12:16.960 get it here. Oh, oh, I dodged. Boom. This kills you when I do this. And then I'm going to learn. 00:12:17.040 --> 00:12:28.480 I learned. No. Subscribe to ShortCircuit. No, that's the price. So you too can beat Jake Bell 00:12:28.480 --> 00:12:36.720 Belivance for the small price of, I think it's $175 is the basic, the multi platform, which is 00:12:36.720 --> 00:12:42.160 the one you're going to want to get is about $225. I think you'll understand if this is for you. I 00:12:42.160 --> 00:12:47.040 mean, overall, I had a lot of fun with it and it was fun finally redeeming myself in tech. And 00:12:47.040 --> 00:12:59.680 thank you, Jake, for having me on ShortCircuit. I threw. Subscribe to ShortCircuit.