![]() Opening up the arcade stick (which is extremely easy to do, with just three screws and the top panel being on hinges) shows the quality actually continues on the inside, as well. The buttons included are also fairly decent quality, with the main six face buttons having decent microswitches (which appear to be Sanwa clones, but not quite as good as OG Sanwa’s), although the two coin/pause and start buttons have no microswitches in them. Well.no, in fact the rest of the arcade stick itself is extremely well put together! The top of the arcade stick is a hard plastic ~1cm thick, and the button of the arcade stick is made of SOME KIND OF METAL, which gives the whole stick a fairly hefty weight which is quite welcome. So with issues to things as simple as those, surely the rest of the thing is just as cheap, right? Not really a great sign right off the bat. Until you boot up the thing and go into a game or check the settings, you simply won’t know which buttons do what at all, which is quite annoying. And perhaps one of the most annoying things about the entire Pandora’s Box 9s+ is the lack of labels on any of the buttons beyond Pause/Start. Thankfully it still works, but I would strongly suggest perhaps finding another adapter to use that’s not going to fall to pieces if you look at it. It weighs basically nothing, is made of cheap plastic, and the C13/C14 input is extremely fragile, to the point where I actually ended up pushing the thing a couple cms into the casing of the power supply the very first time I plugged it in. The next issue you’ll find is when you’re plugging in the power adapter: it’s incredibly cheap. ![]() In order to remove this plastic, you have to open up the stick and remove the buttons so you don’t have bits of plastic showing around the buttons. How do I know? Because when you peel the plastic back, a ton of plastic gets ripped up and stuck UNDERNEATH the buttons. For some ungodly reason, when the plastic covering was placed on this arcade stick, it was done without the buttons put into place. Now, the first thing any self-respecting interwebz user will want to do is slowly, sexily peel back that plastic covering and record it for a million views on Youtube.and right away we have our first problem. And that’s really all you get in the box no manual (even though the product page clearly lists this as included), no quick start guides, just the stick, the cables for it, and some extra buttons just in case. Underneath this you’ll find the 12v/3a power adapter, an HDMI cable, a VGA cable, two extra face buttons, and a.USB-A to USB-A cable? Interesting. Opening up the box will give you your first look at the arcade stick in question, with its extra fancy blue “GAMING!” decal on top and a nice plastic peel to keep the dust off the box during shipment. ![]() But before we get further along, let’s take a look at what you get in the box when you receive your Pandora 9s+. On the back of the stick you’ll find two USB ports (which I will also touch on later), a “settings” button, a volume potentiometer, a 3.5mm audio port, VGA port, HDMI port, and the 12v/3a power jack port to power it all up along with the power switch, and on the bottom you’ll find a speaker grill for the built-in speaker. The Pandora 9s+ is a two player arcade stick with a built-in SBC that houses a total of 2020 arcade games from various eras and genres, with a total of six 30mm main face buttons that can accommodate virtually any arcade game, two 24mm coin/pause (which I’ll touch on later) and start button, and one arcade stick each, as is expected. Today we’ll be looking at what is frankly a Pandora’s Box Arcade Stick clone called the “Pandora 9s+” from…well, whoever manufactured it, as there are no real identifiers on the box or the stick itself.
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