damn those blasted game pads

[trev1976]

i used to be a dab hand at streetfighter in the arcades executing dragon punchs and fireballs with the greatest of ease (even won a few comps in my time ) anyway when the streetfighter conversion came to snes me and my mates stayed in more often homing are skills on pads first came snes and saturn and now DC but just recently i thought **** this im going back to my roots and im gonna use my DC sticks well what a disaster im ****ing crap on a stick,i dont feel cofident with it at all and get my ass kicked quite badly so now its like learning a whole new game system and my skills look total crap (oh the shame ) anyway is anyone else in the same boat here ???

[Fuddle]

i've never been able to use a stick...i'm just rubbish with them.
i'd rather use something like an ascii fighting type pad, i can do any move fairly easy with them.

[TheShend]

I marvel folk who can use a stick competently.

The SF3:3rd Strike competition videos.........blow my mind.



Saturn pads are king!


Q. What are the Neo-Geo AES pads like? Research like.

[dataDave]

Q. What are the Neo-Geo AES pads like? Research like.

They're nothing like the perfect hand-held thumbstick. Far too much action and not enough 'click' - if you know what I mean.

As for sticks/pads, I can use anything, as long as it's not either the Dreamcast or Xbox pad. They stink.

When it comes to charge-fluent combos (ie: Guile, Blanka, Remy etc) I do find them a lot easier on a stick however, especially the db,df,db,uf super-finales.

One bad thing about joysticks though - if you're playing on the same screen or in the same room as someone it's very easy to predict what the other player is going to do by listening to their clickety movements. Pre-match charges and many supers can be predicted quite easily which puts a big downer on things.

[JDUK]

Yeah unpredictability can get you a good couple of wins against really good players on live... go random play like a monkey and they swear blue murder as you seemingly flaw them by accident with Dhalsim one second your floating around with your wanky dhalsim jumps next you level three flame thingy there Shoto-clone team to hell. Then as soon as you get a character your good with they waste you because your not as good as your thought...

Any one can be **** & lucky but being good takes practice ... so i just fall back on the 1st one.

Any way on-topic im making my own arcade stick in the neer future check out the tuts at: http://www.arcadecontrols.com/arcade.htm
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[Chief H]

I have the same problem. I've been brought up on the home scene as opposed to the arcades so I've always grown used to the pad. Plus, among the few people who will fight me, they all don't have sticks so complaints when passing controllers around and one person finds a huge stick in their lap ("I can't use this??!?!") so i end up using the pad for convenience.

I have tried to hone my stick skills though. It's definately easier when you never play a game with a pad (eg all my ikaruga play has been on my stick) but there are certain habits that carry over from pad to stick, i find. for exaple, my qcf motions on a pad are almost instinct now but in reality i barely skirt the down in that motion. you can't really get away with that so much with a stick and i find i only hit the df and f parts of the motion. takes a lot of effort to correct. i overcompensate now and almost end up doing a hcf motion instead. i also seem to 'know' where i am better with a pad, so to speak (ie, if i'm in b or bd or d) but that's probably something that just comes with experience on a stick.

And for some reason i actually quite like the dreamcast pads. A little spongy at times, but i like the amount of travel they give. makes them very responsive and easy to read/feel out. Mind, I'll only ever play with early edition dc pads (the one's released early on with japanese dcs). The later models (dubbed the 'cheese grater' by me and my sf playing pals) have taller d pads which sit higher from the controller and as a consequence the corners feel sharper and dig into your thumbs a bit more. The earlier models were much better though. sat lower and were more comfortable. Incidentally, i always feel nintendo pads are too hard and unresponsive with not enough travel, but that's just personal preference

[trev1976]

been bashing away at sfII zero 3 on DC the last couple of nights and i think im finally getting the hang of the arcade stick again,still not totally at ease with them but loads better

ill just have to stick with it (excuse the pun)

[Che Musashi]

I've been playing Evo with an Evo stick and loving it. Though I'm still getting the hang of it, my pad days are over.

[trev1976]

I've been playing Evo with an Evo stick and loving it. Though I'm still getting the hang of it, my pad days are over.

same here (i just want to use the stick on arcade games now,no more pads)