Fighting game controllers

**Shooting Love** · 11 Dec 2007, 11:12 PM

Originally Posted by Yoshi

I stopped swinging from trees, and I stopped liking Nintendo d-pads. Evolution kicks ass.

Yeah, but I'm not going back and recreating controllers for 16-bit consoles.

**Cheebs** · 12 Dec 2007, 11:54 AM

For DC fighters I love this thing to death:

Ascii Stick FTW.

For PS/PS2 I use a MAS stick. Really easy to mod one with a PS joypad PCB, but I'm sure they sell them with PS compatibility right out of the box as well.

**Yoshi** · 12 Dec 2007, 01:49 PM

Originally Posted by Shooting Love

Yeah, but I'm not going back and recreating controllers for 16-bit consoles.
In the context of 16-bit consoles the Nintendo d-pad is nearly as good as it got.

The Genesis controllers, especially the 6-button, absolutely kicked the shit out of the SNES d-pad.

**GohanX** · 18 Dec 2007, 07:26 PM

Can anyone tell me how well this controller works for fighters?

http://gear.ign.com/articles/519/519416p1.html

It's the Logitech Cordless pad. I don't give a shit about the cordless part of it, but it has the dpad in a circle that is good for fighters if made correctly. It was in the packaging, naturally, so I couldn't test it.

I don't actually want to use it on PSX, I need a new gamepad for my Neo Geo/Neo CD, but I could buy the logitech pad and a Neo adapter cheaper than I could buy a new Neo CD pad.

**Grave** · 18 Dec 2007, 07:48 PM

I got two of those for next to nothing and I would never, ever consider using them for fighters. Buttons sometimes didn't register unless I pressed them fairly hard. I don't recall the d-pad being particularly good OR bad, but I think I was playing games that required analog input.

**GohanX** · 19 Dec 2007, 12:53 AM

I was reading up on the PSX-Neo adapter (I used to have one, but that was long ago) and it reminded me that the analog stick works as the d-pad too. The normal dual shock would be fine for what I use the pad for, which is either just to have something small to test games with or playing late at night when my girl is asleep and the joystick is too clicky.

I really can't play Neo Drift Out on a stick. Just like it feels unnatural to use a pad with a fighter, it feels wrong to use an arcade stick with a racer.