I have to say I absolutely love how enthusiastic you are about your reviews. You don't just go through the motions and touch on aspects that everyone else does. Your love for arcade sticks and fighting games really come through! Keep up the fantastic work!

My man! 3 videos in 3 weeks! I love it! Thanks for the work in putting these together!

You're incredibly articulate on why and why not you like something, as someone not even interested in buying one of these, you're just a joy to listen to.

I really love that you took the time to show how you would improve the design if you had the opportunity instead of just going "I don't like this" and moving on. Your channel is one the absolute best when it comes to arcade sticks and FGC content. I look forward to all your uploads :)

Been waiting specifically for this video! I bought the drone 1 two years ago because of you and knew you’d have stuff to say about the update. Glad to know I can keep using it without worrying about getting an upgrade just yet. Keep up the awesome work dude!

It is very relaxing listening to you when explaining

Really liked the photoshop portion of the video. I could visualize what you were saying as far as the changes you'd make, but it was neat seeing you go out of your way to rearrange the layout.

this was the first video I came across but I've watched more on your channel now and every video I watched is super detailed, helpful, and authentic. thanks

Thanks for the review! You confirmed the suspicions I had about whether the upgrade was worth it. Also, the outdoor shots were nice!

Another excellent review with great attention to detail and you go the extra mile to show what you’d improve with the design. Fantastic job!

I really love your videos. You explain a lot intricate details to these sticks and it helps me out on what kind of fight sticks I wanna get. Can't wait to check up more videos

Great vid bro! Always love seeing a new upload from you. Thank you for the thoroughly detailed review!

Always love your videos. Thanks for the review.

Thank you for mentioning the gate difference, glad drone two is not that difficult to find an octagonal gate for 🎉

its been so long and now here's another video! I definitely missed your videos man, great to see you back in action, and Ill definitely keep my drone 1 for sure.

Awesome! Glad to see a touchpad that it so desperately needed.

Im glad that you are making more content, it was always nice watching your videos

We love you! You are always appreciated and welcome 😊

such a helpful and detailed review! thank you!

this is a really nice review, very well done man

The in depth analysis of the design is so awesome

Very informative, thank you!

Haven't owned a Qanba since the Q1. I'm intrigued by the Drone 2. I just wish that with the price almost being doubled that they were using Sanwa buttons and a JLF. I didn't like when Hori shifted to their first party hardware on the HRAP either when we get into the $150+ range. I do like that your critiques also had suggestions to add substance to your opinions

Bought this right after watching the video yesterday. The stick arrived today, so much easier to swap out buttons and knob. Mayflash f500 is ok, but I dont want to buy an adapter to play ps5 when I can buy this for the same price as the Mayflash and its accessory. The price I think is a bit much since the material feels cheap.

i agree the button placement is very weird. having the L3 R3 etc on the top right also would make them easier to press as they are really common buttons to use in training mode in games, having them on the left is super inconvenient. even putting them behind the stick on the right would be better for most people i think

Love the content. I picked up an 8-bit do because of your videos. Look forward to the next one.

Thanks for this. I was almost tempted to go with the Q2, it makes much more sense to stick with the Q1 and mod it to my liking for less.

Bro! So happy to see you back doing reviews again! Hope all is well!

lol it was kinda refreshing to see your face again. used to binge your videos before i got my first stick in 2020.

Nice review dude. Glad to see that you're back at making videos!

I love the little cute plants on the left while you play

Aaah i remember when i watched your qanba drone 1 video years ago and buyed my first arcade stick (venom ps4). So nice to see you back. Now i have 7 sticks and join tournaments :P (My main is a stock fighting edge with a nobi bullet top, one of the best arcade sticks ever made for me). I notice that the prices are doubled, but the quality remains the same. In most cases the ideas are lacking, hope we'll see some actually interesting controllers in the future. I miss those times when you could buy a mayflash f300 for 50 bucks (official, not used) and the controllers were amazing! Again, nice to see you back ;)

⚠️ Quick note ⚠️ 1️⃣The drone 1 May not work with Native PS5 Games if the Game does not support Ps4 controllers or Sticks. So even though the Drone 1 works on the ps5, Theres a chance it may not work on SF6 or Tekken 8 On the PS5. Thank you to knightsabre and Robert for the reminder. 🙏 2️⃣ The Ps4/Ps5 mode connection has been solved, you have to plug into steam on pc mode, then pc mode will work. if you plug into steam on ps4/ps5 mode, steam will work too, but if you switch to pc mode, the stick will disconnect. 3️⃣ i was going too fast and forgot to mention you do need a extra cable to connect it to a sanwa lever, for now refer to my drone 1 video, i will make a drone 2 mod guide soon

glad to see you uploading again!

Thanks, I've been looking to see if I wanted to upgrade from 1 to 2. Glad to know it isn't that big of an upgrade.

Just ordered mine super hyped for sf6 and a nice stick to add to the collection

I love your videos. They're so helpful and very informative. Keep up the awesome job! How about some content with hit boxes? 😊

Glad to have you back!!!

Good to see u dropping videos again hopefully u keep them coming for Sf6

thanks for your advice as always.

It’s great some new sticks are coming out. I’ve noticed in the past few years the market dried up with not much new being released. I’m keen to get a new stick this year for SF6 and T8, been using a modded rap4 Kai for the past few years so due an upgrade.

Thanks so much for the review!

You are really a beast, dude i come to see how good is this new arcade stick, and actually wan't to learn things about SFV, and then you show us Karin and teach us things for us newbie, awesome, as always very great content, keep it up !

This went from a stick review to a mini karen tutorial. Hoping to see the Titan and Obsidian II reviews.

Thank you for this Great Review ! 👍

Another banger let's goo!!! Keep it up

Hey! Good to see you back at work! I hope you will review hitboxes as well

It would be nice if they made the cable detachable. Also I really liked how you showed redesign concepts in Photoshop!

I love my drone 1 but the same dislike you had was the cable placement, after a year the cable broke because it was getting pinched by my thigh. I decided to mod my drone by adding a 5-pin to usb-c adapter so I could easily swap consoles by using a usb-c cable, i also put it at the center. everything works and i'm disabled so it's nice to not have to ask for help when swapping from pc to ps5. I hope qanba fix this in future stick design but if not it's fairly easy to mod the boxes

Very intersting and usefull video men, I used these to decide what stick to buy. I decide to go on Drone 1, I'am a beginner and I don't wanna to rush or waste my money. Thanks for the review, continue like these, I'll follow you ;)

Touch pad over the stick will cause accidental touches as you move your hand around. Your right hand will be more static, so it makes ergonomic sense to put it there.

I love your content, keep it up!

You have a very relaxing mood. I guess you never get salty. Some times i watch your videos like an asmr kind.😅

7:50 Great side by side comparison

I also feel the cable compartment overtime causes that cable to flex and bend too much increasing the chance of the cable simply breaking one day.

The new aesthetic scheme is reminiscent of Razer's sticks just without the green, and I like it. Makes it look more premium than it's parts actually are (though they still priced it premium? Quanba, what are you trying to pull here?), even though it means the name has lost it's thematic meaning.

Finally you made a review of the Drone 2. Great work! One question, can a Crown Lever fit in the Drone 1/2?

First: 3 videos in 3 weeks! You're spoiling us! Second: thanks for confirming what I was worried about with this stick. Third: thought about posting videos of just you livestreaming sfv/sf6? I'd love to watch you play ranked and pick up some tips!

Always the most detailed reviews on the newest sticks! 🤌🤌🤌

Heyyy I absolutely love your videos they are helping me choose out which arcade stick I want to get but are you going to do a review on the Hori PS5 Arcade stick

Great review thank you

Looking forward to the Qanba Titan review!!

For the PC setting, you may have to enable generic controllers in Steam big picture mode. I had this issue with a Qanba Dragon before.

i want to mention a couple notes, for the lever you cant just swap out the lever to sanwa parts because the standard jlf has the switches soldered onto a pcb that leads to a 5 pin output, but qanba's default wiring requires the cables to connect direct to the switches, which would make it impossible to just buy a jlf and connect it, you would need to also buy a 5 pin zero encoder and swap the default wiring with the encoder. also for the hardware mode switching to console and pc, when you swapped to PC mode your machine actually connected the controller (climbing pitch noise confirms) to the machine as it reads it as its own device, swapping to ps4 or ps5 mode disconnects your controller(low pitch dun dun noise), and when it rereads the device in ps4 or ps5 mode, windows 10 natively recognizes your controller in the ball park of a DS4 controller and not a "qanba drone". PC ports are weird (Blazblue wont read any new devices after its launched so you have to close the game if you want to connect anything new) but whats going on here in your example is that when you swap to PC mode, if SFV can still read new devices while its open, the reason why you cant control your character is because every FG allocates player control to the specific device, but since PC mode completely changes how your controller is detected on your machine, SFV reads it as if its a different device than what was set to be player 1 hence you can't control karin, this isnt exactly an issue with the controller itself, but moreso an unnecessary test case if you will because you really shouldnt be swapping device modes while connected to a game anyway

Just a thought, you can recorder unboxing as a separate part, when you receive the product and just stick it to the beginning of the video

WELCOME BACK DAWG!!!!!!! Hope you been well.

I consider the riffled surface of the Drone 2 as extremely problematic too. It sure will be difficult to clean this device. The only thing worse would be a diamond shaped surface and then rubber.

Yess!!!!! more CONTENT :)

I’ve been looking into getting an arcade stick and I believe I’ll just go with the drone 1 but the thing I like about the drone 2 is the headphone Jack since my monitor doesn’t have speakers built in but I play on pc so it doesn’t really bother me

yo someone hire this man on to help design controllers. It's funny cause I was saying to myself that he was making too big a fuss about the layout but then when he showed his ideas in PS I immediately agreed

4:40 I agree the top does look a bit JAMMED !!!

I think that I'll get it and mod it just like my original Qanba Drone with a detachable cable

No entry level fightstick should cost more than $100. It otherwise defeats the purpose of labeling it as "entry level". Qanba needs to go back to the drawing board with the Drone series. I believe they didn't want to cannibalize sales of the original Drone fightstick, which is why the Drone 2 is somewhat of a let down.

With how the inside of the drone 2 looks a bit different than the drone 1, do you think there's additional space that would make mounting a low collar korean lever possible without significant modifications? I did check out the newer video and it seems like it's better than the drone 1, but $125 is a lot to pay to potentially be wrong.

I love the Psd part and you are right qanba drone 1 is superior in many aspects and cheaper

You know what else is missing on the Drone 2? There’s no tournament lock on and off switch like they did with the Drone 1 and Qanba forgot about that. Haha lucky for me, I took your advice and I still have my Drone 1 and I thank you for the review.

I wonder if the PC mode input would show up in apps with key-tracking options, just to see what the controller is sending to the PC. Personally I would use AutoHotkey to do this. Any script would do. It could literally just be one word: _return._ Run the script, go to the "Show Hidden Icons" option on your taskbar, Left-Click it. Find your scripts icon: Right-Click it. Find Open: Left-Click it. A window will come up. Find View: Left-Click it (or Alt+V). Find Key History and script info: Left-Click it (or K). Now, if the PC is receiving any input from the controller, it will show up here. It likely will list the Down & Up of any button or switch separately and what the PC is calling those inputs. They might not show up at all, this is just one simple test.

Were you shooting that outside footage in Rockefeller Park, and around Battery Park City, on the Hudson?😅 Anyways, love how you give fighting game tips towards the end of your fightstick reviews😂

more videos! yes!

Crazy how this stick is about the same price as a RAP4 from many years ago. I think beginners should buy used and upgrade parts as needed

With that trackpad being so close to the buttons, the Drone 2 needed a lock switch way more than the original Drone does. It's a shame that they removed that switch on the Drone 2, but, since the Titan has one, I think they did that and also made the rubber pads on the Drone 2 comically smaller than the original Drone's because otherwise nobody would buy the Titan.

Gravity ks is my favorite buttons is good

Can you do a video explaining the hit box vs the arcade stick and which one do you prefer/recommend?

Hello @JoystickNY, which entry level stick would you buy to play tekken 8 on ps5? Thanks for your great videos!

Very informative; thank you very much! I’m looking to get my first stick and heard the drone 2 was a great entry level It’s “unfortunate” the price for the drone 1 and 2 are not similar; considering the drone 1 and 2 are very similar Either way, thanks again!

Just got the Obsidian 2. Honestly I think I F'd up. It's nice but not $300 nice. Maybe should've gotten this or the Titan 2

Thanks for the review. Do you a entry level stick that you recommend for modding with a Korean lever ? Thanks again, I'm glad you're back doing videos.

Great review!!!

i see in europe here finally a store sells arcade stick, its the qanba drone 2 and its 60eur "$65" since you said its 140$ or something let go :)

I’m still good with the arcade sticks I have and one of them involves the snk arcade stick pro

Thanks for the awesome videos

Great video as always

Return of the king

Top quality video!

The reason the trackpad doesn't go on the side is a matter of cost. Other than the top, the entire body is 1 vacuum formed piece of plastic with only a few cuts done with a single die pass, which keeps the price of the final stick LOW, a large cutout like that as well as mounting it, would require several extra steps in manufacturing. The shape of the trackpad is an issue with Sony's software mapping, short version being that even with extra processing, the pad still has to stay the same horizontal and vertical proportions as the original PS4 trackpad. They did what they could with it, given it's intended price (though apparently they messed up reaching that price). 🤷‍♀️

return of the king

The ps5 and 4 controllers are plug and play on PC, the PC specific mode may require some kind of driver update for some reason.

One day we'll get a fight stick designed by you, and when that day comes = First Day Purchase.

the best reviewer!

true reviewer