ThunderStick LED Arcade trackball (TS-UTB01)

At only 40 dollars this trackball is so simple to install and needs no electrical add ons to make it glow. Just plug it in the control deck and screw down and your done. Multiple colors to pick from to light up. Very bright and smooth operation. Much better than the stock trackball on the phase 1 cabinets. I bought it for my phase 1 centipede cabinet and selected the green color and it looks and plays great. Couldn't be any happier with this product.

Great looking and works great for Atari Legacy 12 in 1 Tempest cabinet. The original Arcade 1up trackball that came with it was garbage and started sticking 2 days after I got it which was a real disappointment. Glad this one was available and at a reasonable price. This looks and works way better and the blue led light inside looks cool.Only bad part the installation was not plug and play. You have to open the trackball open to pull the tumbler switch. Not so hard but it was not mentioned if you un clip the trackball housing with the ball facing down the entire insides falls out when you open it. That cost me an additional hour installation trying to reverse engineer how the insides are supposed to go back together. I had to open the Arcade1up trackball to see the internals to compare how the new trackball went back together. There should be a warning sticker saying open unit with trackball facing up . I’m betting this has happened to many.Other confusing part in the directions it says you have to hook the stock spinner cord to the new trackball for it to work and that was not the case for me. The cable harness didn’t even fit the new trackball and it worked fine without hooking it up. Mines is the 2020 model non lit riser so maybe the newest version you have to do that stepOtherwise a great product definitely worth the 35$!,

It was very easy to install, even when pairing with the thunderstick grs spinner. I set my color to red and really like how deep of a red it looks. I tried 3 games so far. Centipede, missile command, and crystal castles. I saw no problems that others mentioned in earlier reviews, but those could be reviews of version 1. I also noticed each game must already have set values for how fast the ball moves things on screen. Centipede was slightly slower than missile command, but i feel thats the way it should be. Slower more precise movements for centipede and faster movements in missile command to take out bomb clusters quickly. The old original trackball never had the type of control and smoothness like the thunderstick trackball v2 has.

Works perfect with my Atari Tempest Legacy 12 in 1. Others have commented that the track ball is touchy/jumpy but I find it works absolutely perfect on centipede, missile command, millipede and all the trackball games. Just remember to take the jumper out of the trackball before you install (which is shown in the instructions). Be sure to open the new trackball with the ball facing up or the inside will all fall out of the trackball. The blue color looks fabulous with the cabinet too. As for removing the old trackball and connection cable just heat both with a hair dryer to soften the glue. Total install time was no more than 30 minutes tops. Thanks Glen as the factory arcade 1up trackball is crap and yours is fabulous!!!

Greets All,My Trackball came today and was eagerly excited to install it, which I did and played with it a bit and then decided to give my review of the Trackball, this is stock Arcade1up 12n1. So without further procrastinating here it is:The Good:The trackball is a nice drop in replacement, I like the mini wheels as I call them that the recorder rod slips into which gives it the free spinning you get, it is wonderful to have a trackball that actually spins and dont have to break your wrist trying to get the ship across the board. It is responsive to the direction you move it, sometimes too sensitive. I like the touch of the led with picking quite a few colors. The trackball recorder works well where there is no pause when spinning the ball quickly like the original trackball that would freeze or go batty.The Bad:The trackball has a grinding noise it not as noticeable unless you spin it fast as if you had to go left or right quickly, so spinning you will hear this, more so left to right then up or down. The trackball is very light, I understand it has to be to make it glow, but I think it should have been heavier. The original trackball feels good in weight. The recorders or the PCB is way too sensitive, most will see this that have played Millipede or Centipede back in the day. I was a master at both and know how it should be reacting, this is too sensitive, it is also too jerky when trying to move up slightly, instead it moves more then you need to. The quick spin either to the left or right does not move like it should for that little effort, but if you move it by hand slightly it moves much more. When moving little bit during normal play you can see the spaceship jitter which again I believe its too sensitive.Overall:I understand that we are playing with a mame emulator, but after I fixed my original trackball from not spinning freely, my two complaints of the original trackball was the recorder not responding to the quick movement from one end of the screen to the other without it getting stuck and sometimes it not being precise. Short of that I had no issues, but still the spinner was a vast improvement and also has its shortfalls its by far better then what was originally there. With the trackball not so sure.To make this superb, the values of the X & Y axis and sensitivity needs to be adusted quite a bit to make it work properly. I think with the new values it could be near perfect IF the sensitivity, the jitter, and the speed are able to be within the right values.Still have to see if it really will make it playable any better then what I have or not. Clearly the default values are not good at all.I figured out why if you spin the trackball too fast why it moves slow and when you move it slowly it moves faster, its the recorder disc the gap is too small based on the free movement of the axis. The disc was made correctly with 25 spaces/gaps which should work and does with light passing through, but they were made too small which when spun very quickly creates a smaller window for the light to pass through.*EDIT* 7.25.19I have been testing values, I have uploaded the values that seem to stabilize the jitter and sensitivity. This is for a STOCK 12 n 1. Values may work with the centipede arcade, anyone willing to try. (NOTE: to change values you must have the USB connection. If you do not then you CANNOT change values).