Decent cheap shmup pad / stick for the Xbox360?

[charlesr]

Speedy, I have the PDP pad now. I'm trying it on the PC but it doesn't seem to want to do diagonals. Any ideas?
I tried the Taito emulator with Homura and it went up down left right fine, but just not the diagonals.

[speedlolita]

If you mean Taito Type X, then when configuring your controls you have to set the joystick to 8 way instead of 4 way.

I ran into the same problem when configuring BlazBlue Continuum Shift ages ago, that solved it.

[charlesr]

Please can you check how? I can't find the 8way option. I see 4Way Y/N, but choosing N still only offers me 4 directions.

[speedlolita]

I don't have the files to check currently I'm afraid.

Are you using the GUI config program?

You might want to try hitting Y to 4way, otherwise it reverts to 2 way (x/y axis) I think.

If that doesn't work well, I'll grab a game and give it a go myself.

[charlesr]

I used the GUI and that command line config.
I've set up the POV in Joy2Key so that when I use notepad it comes out as wasd as expected. However, this information does not make it through to Type X. I enter wasd in Homura config and that works fine with keys in-game but the POV movements do not register.

[monel]

I've never tried the Taito emulator, but I was searching for tips on other emus last month (I think) and some people had various tips for controlling the Taito emu. I think some of them were using Xpadder (SP?) or a similar app to map the controls. There's a few threads about it out there and I'm sorry if I contributed zero useful info, since re-reading your post that Joy2key sounds like a similar solution.

[speedlolita]

It is. Simpler interface, but I prefer it.

[charlesr]

I tried Joy2Key which works perfectly in online flash games for diagonals, but it just refuses to work in Taito Type X
Makes. No. Sense.