WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.520 About a year and a half ago, I was publicly humiliated on Tekken's smallest 00:00:04.640 --> 00:00:12.640 stage. It was a FlyQuest weekly. It didn't mean anything. And Joe Crush 00:00:09.240 --> 00:00:14.960 one-shot me. And even Harada himself 00:00:12.640 --> 00:00:19.400 said that that was awesome. And today, I'm coming out of retirement to talk 00:00:16.640 --> 00:00:25.680 about the Junk Food Swirl. It is a leverless controller fight stick pad, 00:00:22.480 --> 00:00:27.080 all of those combined, and it has balls. 00:00:25.680 --> 00:00:31.080 So, if you're not familiar with Junk Food Arcades, they are a leverless fight 00:00:29.200 --> 00:00:36.400 stick company based in the United States. And they have their flagship 00:00:34.160 --> 00:00:39.080 product. It is called the Snack Box Micro. There's many different 00:00:37.640 --> 00:00:42.160 controllers that one might use for fighting games, such as Street Fighter 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, 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 00:00:48.560 --> 00:00:55.020 more legacy controllers, such as a fight stick or a arcade stick, as, you know, 00:00:53.360 --> 00:00:59.440 the old ones might call it. Here we [music] have a leverless controller. Uh 00:00:57.800 --> 00:01:03.920 it's sort of a leverless controller. It's kind of hard to describe what this 00:01:01.000 --> 00:01:05.680 actually is. It's a um it's sort of a weird hybrid of 00:01:05.500 --> 00:01:12.040 >> [music] >> a leverless controller and a gamepad, I guess. And so, Junk Food decided that, 00:01:10.240 --> 00:01:16.120 you know, why have both a PlayStation controller and an arcade stick, when you 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 00:01:18.160 --> 00:01:24.520 left here, we have a more WASD traditional layout of a keyboard. And 00:01:21.880 --> 00:01:28.360 then we have a more fighting game-centered layout here on the right 00:01:26.840 --> 00:01:33.360 of the Swirl. The elephant in the room here are these two giant 00:01:31.760 --> 00:01:38.200 At the bottom of the controller, we have their thumb domes. And they are Hall 00:01:35.520 --> 00:01:41.720 Effect sticks, and they offer superior accuracy and responsiveness. But before 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 00:01:43.560 --> 00:01:52.360 actually comes with a really nice carrying case. This is nice. It comes with a angled 00:01:48.440 --> 00:01:54.440 USB-C to USB-A sleeved cable. Yeah, it's 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, 00:01:57.040 --> 00:02:02.560 good amount of length between you and the screen even though your opponent 00:02:00.320 --> 00:02:06.280 might be like right next to it. Hate those guys. You got some propaganda 00:02:04.400 --> 00:02:11.120 stickers. Very nice. And then it comes with a welcome to the 00:02:07.600 --> 00:02:13.560 Swirl family with the Swirl QR code. 00:02:11.120 --> 00:02:17.640 Now, this is epic. Overall first impressions, it looks 00:02:16.600 --> 00:02:24.560 cool. I mean, it's a design that I don't think I've ever seen. 00:02:20.880 --> 00:02:26.440 One really interesting thing though is 00:02:24.560 --> 00:02:31.040 you market this towards fighting game players and like controller players cuz 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 00:02:35.760 --> 00:02:41.040 really what we use on leverless controllers. 00:02:39.480 --> 00:02:45.040 Like on leverless controllers, it's usually just the bottom three buttons 00:02:42.520 --> 00:02:49.320 here. And then there's actually a center button here for jump. Jump or up. Like 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 00:02:52.840 --> 00:02:58.080 like map it to that. So, that's really interesting. Because 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 00:03:00.519 --> 00:03:03.720 then they just added some 00:03:04.360 --> 00:03:10.880 thumb domes. The pattern here is I'm not the biggest 00:03:08.720 --> 00:03:14.920 fan of this pattern. Uh there's a whole bunch of different fight stick patterns 00:03:13.040 --> 00:03:17.720 layouts like this. I'm more used to this sort of layout where it tapers down. 00:03:16.400 --> 00:03:21.720 Some of them they like to go straight across like this like the Razer Kitsune. 00:03:19.840 --> 00:03:25.519 On the top, we got the USB-C port. Nice to always have the universal connector, 00:03:23.160 --> 00:03:29.600 have a detachable USB-C cable. My fight stick is not detachable and every day I 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 00:03:31.040 --> 00:03:35.840 foam sort of like cushioned bottom, which is nice because when you use 00:03:34.640 --> 00:03:40.160 these, you usually don't actually use them on desks. Uh they're usually built 00:03:38.040 --> 00:03:44.320 to be put on your lap. This button is the home button. This is the select 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:47.959 button. This is the start button. We got the touchpad button here. Then we 00:03:46.080 --> 00:03:51.160 got the edit button and the profile button. So, I'm assuming you can assign 00:03:49.239 --> 00:03:54.760 different profiles to this and then you can kind of hot swap it to between 00:03:52.840 --> 00:03:58.440 games. So, before I continue, I want to talk about getting one shot in Tekken. 00:03:56.480 --> 00:04:04.560 Nobody talks about that I actually took two games off of Joe Crush. I just got 00:04:00.640 --> 00:04:04.560 one shot. So, that's it. 00:04:04.760 --> 00:04:10.000 So, one thing I do notice about these buttons is I believe they are all key 00:04:08.080 --> 00:04:11.720 switches. They feel like Cherry MX browns. 00:04:11.160 --> 00:04:16.600 Uh if I rip one OF THESE OFF, WOAH! YEAH, 00:04:14.160 --> 00:04:20.280 these look like just Cherry MX clears. Um you know, I'm sure somebody in the 00:04:18.239 --> 00:04:24.360 comments will correct me about that. And I guess they are just hot swappable, so 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 00:04:25.880 --> 00:04:31.760 food leverless controllers, they try to keep it pretty thin. 00:04:29.600 --> 00:04:35.360 Uh so, they use these key switches instead of the typical like Sanwa Denshi 00:04:33.760 --> 00:04:39.440 buttons that you find in regular fight sticks. Definitely prefer those. They 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 00:04:40.760 --> 00:04:47.560 that's like, but this is good fun. One thing I do notice 00:04:44.760 --> 00:04:52.160 is that there's already a bunch of fingerprints. Holy moly. I mean, my 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 00:04:55.800 --> 00:05:02.400 I'm a stick player. I have the Etokki Omni, and the artwork is impossible to 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 00:05:04.560 --> 00:05:09.880 plate. Plexi off. Woah! There's the 00:05:08.160 --> 00:05:13.240 plexi taken off. Uh and now we got the artwork. I mean, 00:05:11.960 --> 00:05:18.520 it's just a piece of paper, [music] which is great because this is the most 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 00:05:20.280 --> 00:05:27.160 time. This being magnetic is actually awesome. You can clean this so easily. I 00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:32.400 can just run it under some water and give it a nice wash. 00:05:29.080 --> 00:05:34.640 So, I'm assuming these buttons are like 00:05:32.400 --> 00:05:40.600 X, square, triangle, circle. R3, L3 are actually here, 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 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 00:05:47.400 --> 00:05:53.920 after this word from our sponsor, PIA. A VPN is used to hide your IP address and 00:05:52.240 --> 00:05:57.640 mask your location while browsing the web. And it can help you conceal your 00:05:55.560 --> 00:06:02.080 browsing from any third parties that may want your data. With PIA, you can set 00:06:00.200 --> 00:06:06.080 your IP address to match over 91 different countries, and that can help 00:06:04.280 --> 00:06:10.520 you watch content not available in your home country. Pretty neat. With just one 00:06:08.280 --> 00:06:14.080 PIA subscription, you get unlimited connections across your devices. 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I mean, 00:06:50.320 --> 00:06:55.520 it seems like a lot of people actually have complaints about the software for this thing. 00:06:53.880 --> 00:06:59.640 It might have been a little undercooked. I mean, the UI is great. It looks easy 00:06:58.400 --> 00:07:05.440 enough. You know, you got different profiles, so you can like swap. You got 00:07:02.680 --> 00:07:09.520 up to five profiles. You can import profiles from other people, so you got 00:07:07.240 --> 00:07:14.240 that sense of the Swirl community. And then you got export profile files. So, 00:07:12.400 --> 00:07:18.800 that's how you share your Swirl profile with the Swirl community. So, here we 00:07:16.400 --> 00:07:22.600 have the basic variant of the Swirl. There's actually a second variant called 00:07:20.560 --> 00:07:27.560 the [music] multi-console. The basic variant of the Swirl only works on 00:07:24.919 --> 00:07:30.880 Switch and PC, but the multi-console version works on Xbox and PlayStation, 00:07:29.600 --> 00:07:36.919 which is something to keep in mind because most tournaments nowadays are run on 00:07:34.360 --> 00:07:40.120 exclusively PS5. If you're going to bring this to tournaments and you're 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, 00:07:43.090 --> 00:07:50.880 >> [music] >> you can't connect this without either the Brook converter to play PS4 to PS5, 00:07:48.840 --> 00:07:55.880 which adds a little bit of latency, or spending the money for the multi-console 00:07:52.260 --> 00:07:56.845 [music] variant. Let's game. 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. 00:08:00.120 --> 00:08:05.720 >> is going to use that one. So, it does seem like these four buttons here are 00:08:03.120 --> 00:08:08.600 the actual buttons to be using. So, it's like your typical Street 00:08:07.160 --> 00:08:12.360 Fighter layout. It still is weird to have jump up here. 00:08:10.720 --> 00:08:15.680 Like I said before, most leverless controllers, the jump is actually down 00:08:14.120 --> 00:08:19.160 here, and you're usually just playing with like the three bottom ones, [music] 00:08:18.040 --> 00:08:23.840 cuz I mean, you're just trying to hit quarter circles. So, 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 00:08:26.400 --> 00:08:31.240 the >> keys, I slam my keys pretty hard when I 00:08:29.560 --> 00:08:36.039 play the game. I mean, I just like how the keys feel 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 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 00:08:41.520 --> 00:08:48.839 on the keys, because with Sanwa buttons, like the lightest touch will actually 00:08:46.640 --> 00:08:52.800 activate the the button. On these keys, there definitely is like an actuation 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 00:08:55.240 --> 00:09:00.240 nothing is actually happening on screen. 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 00:09:02.200 --> 00:09:08.440 like just a regular key switch. It's not like a a typical arcade switch, the 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 00:09:10.839 --> 00:09:15.839 though. I don't have enough space on my desk at home. This feels pretty good. 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. 00:09:18.880 --> 00:09:25.480 I'm going to use the >> [music] >> the stick. 00:09:23.240 --> 00:09:30.480 The domes. The dome. I'm going to use the thumb dome. The thumb dome, 00:09:28.400 --> 00:09:35.760 it's just not for fighting games. See, you just don't get like the precision 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 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 00:09:43.120 --> 00:09:47.440 using the thumb dome. So, I'm not absolutely smurfing. I've 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 00:09:50.480 --> 00:09:55.480 he's playing against. He's like, "Who is LTT Benchmark?" 00:09:57.880 --> 00:10:03.200 Boom. Round one is a dub for me. 00:10:04.640 --> 00:10:11.360 Oh, no. I got him with the wake-up level three 00:10:08.400 --> 00:10:11.360 as the pros do. 00:10:11.880 --> 00:10:17.240 Guys, do I rematch him? You have to rematch, right? I'm going to use the 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 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 00:10:23.680 --> 00:10:27.920 fighting game domes. Oh, I swapped back to the keys. 00:10:27.497 --> 00:10:33.080 >> [laughter] >> I like the keys too much. Okay, he's [music] just I mean, he's 00:10:31.720 --> 00:10:36.640 just throwing things out in neutral. This guy got no neutral. So, why don't 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. 00:10:38.760 --> 00:10:44.040 Okay, so we got Cyberpunk going. I mean, this is the smoothest Cyberpunk 00:10:42.440 --> 00:10:47.720 has ever been for me. Um 5090, by the way. 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 00:10:51.760 --> 00:10:57.320 love fight sticks and you just want it to be your 00:10:55.200 --> 00:11:01.240 everything. I mean, I guess that's what this is for. 00:10:59.480 --> 00:11:05.480 Like, you just never have to own like a PlayStation controller ever again. You 00:11:03.240 --> 00:11:10.520 know what? Honestly, I'm finding aiming quite easy, and it's actually quite fun. 00:11:08.320 --> 00:11:15.320 I mean, this is pretty doable. I mean, you got to get used to the layout 00:11:12.720 --> 00:11:19.960 in a way. This is not bad. I thought it was going to be way worse. 00:11:17.640 --> 00:11:22.800 I can't lie. Oops, sorry. It's Tekken time. 00:11:23.360 --> 00:11:27.839 All right, I'm [music] challenging you to Tekken 8. I saw you got one-shotted. 00:11:26.680 --> 00:11:32.600 I've never played Tekken 8. Haven't played Tekken since [music] like Tekken 2, 00:11:29.760 --> 00:11:36.000 but I'm feeling confident. Okay. Also, I'm using an Xbox controller. I have it. 00:11:34.360 --> 00:11:39.000 Yeah, you better not use the left stick. You better use the D-pad. 00:11:37.680 --> 00:11:44.760 You're using special style? >> Yeah, me too. I don't know what these buttons do. 00:11:42.640 --> 00:11:48.880 Oh, no. I have I don't remember a single combo. 00:11:46.280 --> 00:11:52.120 Oh, wait. I actually just got I lost. Please, please, please. I lost. 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. 00:11:56.120 --> 00:12:01.163 Oh. You hate to see it. So, if you didn't 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? 00:12:06.040 --> 00:12:11.600 Cuz then you get launched like that. He burst. He burst. 00:12:10.200 --> 00:12:20.800 Oh my goodness, dude. He just keeps ripping rage art. >> Special move. Special style. 00:12:16.960 --> 00:12:20.800 Oh, you died. It doesn't kill. 00:12:20.840 --> 00:12:23.520 Oh, watch this. 00:12:25.240 --> 00:12:29.120 What? The He had a vacuum. Okay, 00:12:28.673 --> 00:12:33.240 >> [laughter] >> guys. He's just mashing mashing the rage art every time. 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. 00:12:36.720 --> 00:12:41.773 >> I got him back. I got him back. He hit 00:12:40.080 --> 00:12:44.760 me in the doinker. >> [laughter] >> Can't you get me though? All right. I 00:12:43.520 --> 00:12:49.240 saw how you lost. I'm going to GET IT HERE. NO. 00:12:47.240 --> 00:12:55.680 OH, I I DODGED. BOOM. This kills you. When I do this and 00:12:53.600 --> 00:12:59.360 then I'm going to learn. I learn. No. 00:12:57.800 --> 00:13:03.960 Yeah. Subscribe to ShortCircuit. No, don't 00:13:01.480 --> 00:13:07.880 say the price. Oh, So, you two can beat Jake Bell 00:13:06.000 --> 00:13:13.320 Bellavance uh for the small price of I think it's $175 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. 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 00:13:21.440 --> 00:13:26.760 with it and it was fun finally redeeming myself [music] in Tekken. Thank you, 00:13:24.920 --> 00:13:31.120 Jake, for having me on ShortCircuit. I threw. 00:13:28.040 --> 00:13:31.120 Subscribe to ShortCircuit.