1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,520 About a year and a half ago, I was publicly humiliated on Tekken's smallest 2 00:00:04,640 --> 00:00:12,640 stage. It was a FlyQuest weekly. It didn't mean anything. And Joe Crush 3 00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:14,960 one-shot me. And even Harada himself 4 00:00:12,640 --> 00:00:19,400 said that that was awesome. And today, I'm coming out of retirement to talk 5 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:25,680 about the Junk Food Swirl. It is a leverless controller fight stick pad, 6 00:00:22,480 --> 00:00:27,080 all of those combined, and it has balls. 7 00:00:25,680 --> 00:00:31,080 So, if you're not familiar with Junk Food Arcades, they are a leverless fight 8 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:36,400 stick company based in the United States. And they have their flagship 9 00:00:34,160 --> 00:00:39,080 product. It is called the Snack Box Micro. There's many different 10 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:42,160 controllers that one might use for fighting games, such as Street Fighter 11 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:47,280 or Tekken, if you're going to get one-shot. There's your traditional gamepad, such as the PS5 controller, 12 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:50,800 which is the one that most people prefer because of the D-pad. And then there are 13 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:55,020 more legacy controllers, such as a fight stick or a arcade stick, as, you know, 14 00:00:53,360 --> 00:00:59,440 the old ones might call it. Here we [music] have a leverless controller. Uh 15 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:03,920 it's sort of a leverless controller. It's kind of hard to describe what this 16 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:05,680 actually is. It's a um it's sort of a weird hybrid of 17 00:01:05,500 --> 00:01:12,040 >> [music] >> a leverless controller and a gamepad, I guess. And so, Junk Food decided that, 18 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:16,120 you know, why have both a PlayStation controller and an arcade stick, when you 19 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:19,680 can just combine the two? And I guess that's how the Swirl came to be. On the 20 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:24,520 left here, we have a more WASD traditional layout of a keyboard. And 21 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:28,360 then we have a more fighting game-centered layout here on the right 22 00:01:26,840 --> 00:01:33,360 of the Swirl. The elephant in the room here are these two giant 23 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:38,200 At the bottom of the controller, we have their thumb domes. And they are Hall 24 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:41,720 Effect sticks, and they offer superior accuracy and responsiveness. But before 25 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:45,000 we continue on, let's take a look at what else you get inside the case. It 26 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:52,360 actually comes with a really nice carrying case. This is nice. It comes with a angled 27 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:54,440 USB-C to USB-A sleeved cable. Yeah, it's 28 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:58,720 about 6 ft long. So, you know, when you're at a at a setup or something, 29 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:02,560 good amount of length between you and the screen even though your opponent 30 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:06,280 might be like right next to it. Hate those guys. You got some propaganda 31 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:11,120 stickers. Very nice. And then it comes with a welcome to the 32 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:13,560 Swirl family with the Swirl QR code. 33 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:17,640 Now, this is epic. Overall first impressions, it looks 34 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:24,560 cool. I mean, it's a design that I don't think I've ever seen. 35 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:26,440 One really interesting thing though is 36 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:31,040 you market this towards fighting game players and like controller players cuz 37 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:38,320 it's supposed to be the best of both worlds, but this WASD layout here is not 38 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:41,040 really what we use on leverless controllers. 39 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:45,040 Like on leverless controllers, it's usually just the bottom three buttons 40 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:49,320 here. And then there's actually a center button here for jump. Jump or up. Like 41 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:54,520 it's So, I'm I'm surprised that there's no actual button for that so that you could 42 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:58,080 like map it to that. So, that's really interesting. Because 43 00:02:56,440 --> 00:03:03,720 I get the vibe more that this is like just a replacement of a keyboard. Um and 44 00:03:00,519 --> 00:03:03,720 then they just added some 45 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:10,880 thumb domes. The pattern here is I'm not the biggest 46 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:14,920 fan of this pattern. Uh there's a whole bunch of different fight stick patterns 47 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:17,720 layouts like this. I'm more used to this sort of layout where it tapers down. 48 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:21,720 Some of them they like to go straight across like this like the Razer Kitsune. 49 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:25,519 On the top, we got the USB-C port. Nice to always have the universal connector, 50 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:29,600 have a detachable USB-C cable. My fight stick is not detachable and every day I 51 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:32,840 worry that it's going to break. On the bottom here, you know, we got a nice 52 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:35,840 foam sort of like cushioned bottom, which is nice because when you use 53 00:03:34,640 --> 00:03:40,160 these, you usually don't actually use them on desks. Uh they're usually built 54 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:44,320 to be put on your lap. This button is the home button. This is the select 55 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:47,959 button. This is the start button. We got the touchpad button here. Then we 56 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:51,160 got the edit button and the profile button. So, I'm assuming you can assign 57 00:03:49,239 --> 00:03:54,760 different profiles to this and then you can kind of hot swap it to between 58 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:58,440 games. So, before I continue, I want to talk about getting one shot in Tekken. 59 00:03:56,480 --> 00:04:04,560 Nobody talks about that I actually took two games off of Joe Crush. I just got 60 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:04,560 one shot. So, that's it. 61 00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:10,000 So, one thing I do notice about these buttons is I believe they are all key 62 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:11,720 switches. They feel like Cherry MX browns. 63 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:16,600 Uh if I rip one OF THESE OFF, WOAH! YEAH, 64 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:20,280 these look like just Cherry MX clears. Um you know, I'm sure somebody in the 65 00:04:18,239 --> 00:04:24,360 comments will correct me about that. And I guess they are just hot swappable, so 66 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:27,600 you can just rip them out of the PCB and stick them back in. With all these junk 67 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:31,760 food leverless controllers, they try to keep it pretty thin. 68 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:35,360 Uh so, they use these key switches instead of the typical like Sanwa Denshi 69 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:39,440 buttons that you find in regular fight sticks. Definitely prefer those. They 70 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:43,040 just feel like I'm at an arcade machine, not that I'm old enough to know what 71 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:47,560 that's like, but this is good fun. One thing I do notice 72 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:52,160 is that there's already a bunch of fingerprints. Holy moly. I mean, my 73 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:57,960 fingers are pretty grimy. I I don't know why. I wish I could fix that. Um 74 00:04:55,800 --> 00:05:02,400 I'm a stick player. I have the Etokki Omni, and the artwork is impossible to 75 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:08,160 swap on that. This one, they advertise it as it's a it's a just a magnetic top 76 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:09,880 plate. Plexi off. Woah! There's the 77 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:13,240 plexi taken off. Uh and now we got the artwork. I mean, 78 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:18,520 it's just a piece of paper, [music] which is great because this is the most 79 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:22,960 effortless way of taking off fight stick artwork that I think I've seen in a long 80 00:05:20,280 --> 00:05:27,160 time. This being magnetic is actually awesome. You can clean this so easily. I 81 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:32,400 can just run it under some water and give it a nice wash. 82 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:34,640 So, I'm assuming these buttons are like 83 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:40,600 X, square, triangle, circle. R3, L3 are actually here, 84 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:44,760 but then these do actually click down, so that's really I mean, we'll see. I 85 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:50,040 guess we'll test them out, which I guess we'll do. Me and Bella are going to fight 86 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:53,920 after this word from our sponsor, PIA. 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All right, we're here in the web app now 96 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:33,960 for the Junk Food Swirl. And I mean, 97 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:38,000 looks like you can remap quite a few things. You can change the controller 98 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:42,880 name. You can change [music] the analog sensitivity. They got firmware updates, 99 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:45,080 connected. You can disconnect it by just clicking it. 100 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:51,480 You There's I don't know why you would do that. You can just rip it out of the port. I mean, 101 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:55,520 it seems like a lot of people actually have complaints about the software for this thing. 102 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:59,640 It might have been a little undercooked. I mean, the UI is great. It looks easy 103 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:05,440 enough. You know, you got different profiles, so you can like swap. You got 104 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:09,520 up to five profiles. You can import profiles from other people, so you got 105 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:14,240 that sense of the Swirl community. And then you got export profile files. So, 106 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:18,800 that's how you share your Swirl profile with the Swirl community. So, here we 107 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:22,600 have the basic variant of the Swirl. There's actually a second variant called 108 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:27,560 the [music] multi-console. The basic variant of the Swirl only works on 109 00:07:24,919 --> 00:07:30,880 Switch and PC, but the multi-console version works on Xbox and PlayStation, 110 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:36,919 which is something to keep in mind because most tournaments nowadays are run on 111 00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:40,120 exclusively PS5. If you're going to bring this to tournaments and you're 112 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:43,200 going to, you know, game it up and go 0-2 in the tournament, uh you know, 113 00:07:43,090 --> 00:07:50,880 >> [music] >> you can't connect this without either the Brook converter to play PS4 to PS5, 114 00:07:48,840 --> 00:07:55,880 which adds a little bit of latency, or spending the money for the multi-console 115 00:07:52,260 --> 00:07:56,845 [music] variant. Let's game. 116 00:07:55,880 --> 00:08:01,280 No, that doesn't >> [laughter] >> No, no, no, one more time. Don't use that one, Carter. I swear, bro. 117 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:05,720 >> is going to use that one. So, it does seem like these four buttons here are 118 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:08,600 the actual buttons to be using. So, it's like your typical Street 119 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:12,360 Fighter layout. It still is weird to have jump up here. 120 00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:15,680 Like I said before, most leverless controllers, the jump is actually down 121 00:08:14,120 --> 00:08:19,160 here, and you're usually just playing with like the three bottom ones, [music] 122 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:23,840 cuz I mean, you're just trying to hit quarter circles. So, 123 00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:27,680 other than that though, it feels very good. How do you feel with the the loudness of 124 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:31,240 the >> keys, I slam my keys pretty hard when I 125 00:08:29,560 --> 00:08:36,039 play the game. I mean, I just like how the keys feel 126 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:39,200 when I [music] am gaming it up. I mean, it's just as responsive as I would 127 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:44,240 expect from a Brook board. I will say though, >> [music] >> I'm just trying to see the sensitivity 128 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:48,839 on the keys, because with Sanwa buttons, like the lightest touch will actually 129 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:52,800 activate the the button. On these keys, there definitely is like an actuation 130 00:08:50,680 --> 00:08:58,480 point. So, it's nothing like too crazy, but when I like I can hit here, and 131 00:08:55,240 --> 00:09:00,240 nothing is actually happening on screen. 132 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:04,480 But then like when I actually get to the point of actuation, there is. So, it is 133 00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:08,440 like just a regular key switch. It's not like a a typical arcade switch, the 134 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:12,440 Sanwa button that, you know, we all know and love. I do usually play on my lap 135 00:09:10,839 --> 00:09:15,839 though. I don't have enough space on my desk at home. This feels pretty good. 136 00:09:14,800 --> 00:09:20,686 I'm going to say something that's a big no-no. It's almost like mall grabbing your skateboard. 137 00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:25,480 I'm going to use the >> [music] >> the stick. 138 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:30,480 The domes. The dome. I'm going to use the thumb dome. The thumb dome, 139 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:35,760 it's just not for fighting games. See, you just don't get like the precision 140 00:09:32,839 --> 00:09:40,240 you get with a D-pad or like WASD with the thumb dome. I mean like I just have 141 00:09:37,560 --> 00:09:44,720 no idea. There's no click. I mean, it's it's doable, but I would not recommend 142 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:47,440 using the thumb dome. So, I'm not absolutely smurfing. I've 143 00:09:46,160 --> 00:09:52,480 been matched against a platinum player. He's [music] going to be playing Ed here. I mean, this guy has no idea who 144 00:09:50,480 --> 00:09:55,480 he's playing against. He's like, "Who is LTT Benchmark?" 145 00:09:57,880 --> 00:10:03,200 Boom. Round one is a dub for me. 146 00:10:04,640 --> 00:10:11,360 Oh, no. I got him with the wake-up level three 147 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:11,360 as the pros do. 148 00:10:11,880 --> 00:10:17,240 Guys, do I rematch him? You have to rematch, right? I'm going to use the 149 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:22,120 thumb domes here, and you're going to just see me get slammed because I don't 150 00:10:19,560 --> 00:10:25,560 know I don't have the precision that I want with these domes. At least in the 151 00:10:23,680 --> 00:10:27,920 fighting game domes. Oh, I swapped back to the keys. 152 00:10:27,497 --> 00:10:33,080 >> [laughter] >> I like the keys too much. Okay, he's [music] just I mean, he's 153 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:36,640 just throwing things out in neutral. This guy got no neutral. So, why don't 154 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:40,960 we hop into another game and we'll test out the thumb domes in like a shooter. 155 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:44,040 Okay, so we got Cyberpunk going. I mean, this is the smoothest Cyberpunk 156 00:10:42,440 --> 00:10:47,720 has ever been for me. Um 5090, by the way. 157 00:10:46,560 --> 00:10:53,960 Uh Here we go. I'm going to give you that cinematic E3 trailer look. If you just 158 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:57,320 love fight sticks and you just want it to be your 159 00:10:55,200 --> 00:11:01,240 everything. I mean, I guess that's what this is for. 160 00:10:59,480 --> 00:11:05,480 Like, you just never have to own like a PlayStation controller ever again. You 161 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:10,520 know what? Honestly, I'm finding aiming quite easy, and it's actually quite fun. 162 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:15,320 I mean, this is pretty doable. I mean, you got to get used to the layout 163 00:11:12,720 --> 00:11:19,960 in a way. This is not bad. I thought it was going to be way worse. 164 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:22,800 I can't lie. Oops, sorry. It's Tekken time. 165 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:27,839 All right, I'm [music] challenging you to Tekken 8. I saw you got one-shotted. 166 00:11:26,680 --> 00:11:32,600 I've never played Tekken 8. Haven't played Tekken since [music] like Tekken 2, 167 00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:36,000 but I'm feeling confident. Okay. Also, I'm using an Xbox controller. I have it. 168 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:39,000 Yeah, you better not use the left stick. You better use the D-pad. 169 00:11:37,680 --> 00:11:44,760 You're using special style? >> Yeah, me too. I don't know what these buttons do. 170 00:11:42,640 --> 00:11:48,880 Oh, no. I have I don't remember a single combo. 171 00:11:46,280 --> 00:11:52,120 Oh, wait. I actually just got I lost. Please, please, please. I lost. 172 00:11:50,683 --> 00:11:55,880 [music] It's going to kill. I know it's going to kill. I'm not going to watch. 173 00:11:56,120 --> 00:12:01,163 Oh. You hate to see it. So, if you didn't 174 00:12:00,800 --> 00:12:08,160 know, >> [music] >> the trick to Tekken is is you don't hold down back like Bell is doing. What? 175 00:12:06,040 --> 00:12:11,600 Cuz then you get launched like that. He burst. He burst. 176 00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:20,800 Oh my goodness, dude. He just keeps ripping rage art. >> Special move. Special style. 177 00:12:16,960 --> 00:12:20,800 Oh, you died. It doesn't kill. 178 00:12:20,840 --> 00:12:23,520 Oh, watch this. 179 00:12:25,240 --> 00:12:29,120 What? The He had a vacuum. Okay, 180 00:12:28,673 --> 00:12:33,240 >> [laughter] >> guys. He's just mashing mashing the rage art every time. 181 00:12:32,280 --> 00:12:40,080 >> they put it in the game if they don't want me to do it? That's so true. No, no, no. You leave me no other choice. 182 00:12:36,720 --> 00:12:41,773 >> I got him back. I got him back. He hit 183 00:12:40,080 --> 00:12:44,760 me in the doinker. >> [laughter] >> Can't you get me though? All right. I 184 00:12:43,520 --> 00:12:49,240 saw how you lost. I'm going to GET IT HERE. NO. 185 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:55,680 OH, I I DODGED. BOOM. This kills you. When I do this and 186 00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:59,360 then I'm going to learn. I learn. No. 187 00:12:57,800 --> 00:13:03,960 Yeah. Subscribe to ShortCircuit. No, don't 188 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:07,880 say the price. Oh, So, you two can beat Jake Bell 189 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:13,320 Bellavance uh for the small price of I think it's $175 190 00:13:11,904 --> 00:13:19,200 [music] is the basic. The multi-platform, which is the one you're going to want to get, is about $225. 191 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:23,560 I think you'll understand if this is for you. I mean, overall, I had a lot of fun 192 00:13:21,440 --> 00:13:26,760 with it and it was fun finally redeeming myself [music] in Tekken. Thank you, 193 00:13:24,920 --> 00:13:31,120 Jake, for having me on ShortCircuit. I threw. 194 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:31,120 Subscribe to ShortCircuit.