Oh yeah, X-Arcade made a trackball panel. Probably didn't sell that well, but people wanted one, so they incorporated it in. I made a related mistake when I bought my Slik Stik panel (after returning the X-Arcade 2-player), where I didn't want a trackball, but Christian (remember that name??) said, 'You really want a trackball.' I ended up returning the custom panel for a Classic. Should've just got a CO2 the first time round!
Anyways, I long ago explored all the permutations of joystick, trackball, and mouse with MM and Hamsterball. These days I play MM with a joystic. Hamsterball worked best using a stick and a mouse: power from the stick, fine movement with the mouse.
Even so, it took a lot of continues to get past the red (hammer and saws) screen, so I don't know as a sequel is necessary for me - but I look forward to it.
> I have it, but it's been gathering dust for a long time because I got to a point where I really needed a trackball to progress. Yet I never bought a trackball. At one time X-Arcade (I think) had an arcade style trackball, but they discontinued it so now you have to buy a full panel to get their trackball. Since I already have a Hotrod SE (that still needs to be upgraded to USB- yeah, that's about how much I use it) obviously that is not an option for me.
> There are of course the standard mouse-replacement trackball one can find, but I never looked into how much they can withstand arcade play. I owned one once, but it didn't really work as well as I had hoped for arcade games. That was a long time ago though- even before I owned Hamsterball.
> Oh, and Hamsterball 2 is supposedly in the works, just as soon at Raptisoft finishes an HD remake of one of their iphone games.
Scifi frauds. SF illuminates.
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