You could also get a ps2/dc converter. Totall Control works real well and its about 20 bucks. Then you wouldnt have to limit yourself to DC sticks and just use the converter. Helps with playing marvel and t5 since your prob using ps2 AND dc.
http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-14-71-h5-49-en.html link for converters.
http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-m-49-en-70-5w3.html Good cheap starter stick. Works well with converter
I tried that once. I don’t recommend it. I played video games for 8 hours on that band aid and what ended up happening was the bandaid exterior taking all the wear and tear and leaving this sticky bandaid glue all over the pad.
My advice is to calm down. There are very few moves in Tekken that require such speedy input without precise timing. 1,2, 1,2, 1,2,2 is not a combo and I’ll have to check but I’m 98% sure that 1,2,2 doesn’t exist as a Steve string.
I used to get friction warts on my thumbs back when I first played Killer Instinct. I was a kid and just knew that long combos happened when I pressed a lot of buttons after doing a special. Now that I’m more experienced with fighters I don’t get those warts(though I suck at comboing in Killer Instinct now:sweat: ).
gamer’s thumb comes with mashing.
Back in the snes street fighter 2 days i got “gamers thumb” from my left thumb rubbing on the dpad, after a few years this became less and less frequent …playstation 1 generation diddnt happen at all.
then in the dreamcast generation i got a stick and have been playing sticks only since. a few times recently i tried using a pad…my thumbs are back to square one and are totally pussy…a hour session has my thumb hurting like nuts
so even if your king of the iron thumb. after a few years of stick use you get all tender and normal again…fuck…upside to that is…who cares…you got a stick 
I don’t get gamers thumb with my righ thumb, but lately I’ve been trying to play MvC2 with a pad, and currently I have a stark white callus on my left thumb about the size of a nickel.
<— ordered his stick parts yestarday
But yeah, I also agree that playing with fingers on the buttons instead of thumb is preferable. I’ve never understood how people use their thumb. For SF3 I have to use my thumb with fingers on L1 and L2… I still can’t understand how people do it.
my left thumb is fucked from years of playing on pads since NES, i don’t think there is any way to help besides not use it. it can only get worse. i have a callus on my thumb that is probably going to be there for life.
Solution: stop playing videogames
How the hell does a PS2 pad tear apart your thumb? I didnt know that was possible cause its all smooth.
Play on a dreamcast pad (Dpad) now that shit rips up your thumb. Such pointy edges that shit hurts after awhile:sad: I never had problems cept the old NES controllers how the had pointy corners even then my thumb was okay it was more my pointer fingers that hurt from that controller. Wasnt till DC came out that my left thumb experienced pain.
-DJ-
Well, I have problems with the Dualshock 2, at least I used to. Nothing as severe as ‘tearing up your thumb,’ but just some discomfort in my hand after picking up and playing a control cross heavy PS2 game after not using the controller for a while. However, now that I put a PSP extra cross button (from this set: http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-bh-49-en-70-1gii-4-6.html) on the PS2 cross, I don’t have ANY problem whatsoever so perhaps thats what you should look into doing?
As for this gamer’s thumb thing, I think I had something similar once. I played the Super Nintendo F-ZERO for two, or maybe even three, days… damn near ALL the time… doing some heavy time trialing. Afterwards I couldn’t feel my hand! Of course since I was playing the game for two days straight I think that was the least of my problems, heh 
masturbate with the other hand