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unboxing of something that's actually really, really exciting. This is the
Atrox from Razer. They have spent a
metric butt 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 Atrox is in the most primeval sense bred to fight. So, they are
looking to 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
there, 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 Atrox 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 which 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 razor 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 bag,
which I almost dropped it. Yep. We were going to do a ruggedability, 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 fight stick
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 mappingss 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 to
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 and slip, it's not going to go ahead and
go to the menu of your Xbox or anything like that in the middle of a 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 are over
on the right over here. And then over here, we find nothing but the interface
connector. So, that's for the 4 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 colorlabeled 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 they wanted to
make it as modern friendly as possible. So same thing here. So you can swap out
the joystick. In fact, it includes a different joystick knob if you joystick
knob if you prefer that. So there's a ball one on there now. And this
is it's sealed in the bag. There it is. There we go. So there there's the
alternate knob that's also included. And then they've got what they're what I
guess I would call like modding friendly mounting points down here. So, you can
actually mount additional componentry or whatever else you want to do in order to
customize the fight stick. And these are all meant to have uh 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 screwdriver, although I'm sure if
you're really that into these things, you're going to have your own screwdriver at this point in time, as
well as the 4 meter wire that I mentioned before. So we can find out how
long this is in minus 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 are probably going to be
familiar with this one, but of course it also runs of 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
um of a rough texture, and then the uh the spherical one has a glossy 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 a 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. Duh. 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 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 it 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 your Atrox 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
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