Here is how I do it. First I try to get myself aroused by reading a playboy magazine. I will start to feel blood rushing to my joystick. Then I proceed to unbutton and unzip my pants to take out my joystick. Since my joystick is the american bat style (unlike the tiny japanese style joysticks the japs use) handle, I have to grab it with my whole fist and grap it firm. To make sure your joystick dont move around while doing fireballs, make sure you are sitting on a chair. That is how I do it. I can do perfect 360 everytime.
I think that’s your problem right there. :tup:
just put it there and play stop being a scrub strakka i perfer my lap to a table or the floor my first stick was the sc2 stick so its not the stick you’re just wack
I also have a Hori SC2 stick with both the stick and buttons replaced by sanwa (the stock SC2 stick is still pretty good. though). Hell I also have a VS City arcade near me too.
I can play fine on my lap now, but it took me a while (ok like 6 months really…) to get used to it.
Basically if you’re an arcade player, you are used to getting away with putting as much force on the joystick/buttons as you want, and them not budging an inch.
NOT ANY-MOORRRREE!!! now you need to control how powerfully you hit the buttons and stick, so the whole stick doesn’t wobble around. If you are calm and gentle (like how gentle the Japanese players handle the sticks, opposite of American players and their “clutch DPs”), it should be ok.
Since you have a SMALL and light stick, you’ve already made life harder for yourself.
If you had a big stick like Hori Real Arcade Pro or MAS or xarcade, it would be easier to keep the stick still since they are so heavy.
But in the end the small stick gives a MUCH better payoff in that you can carry it round with you in your bag easily and still have room to spare 
Just the road to stick-stability is harder…
As for input lag, I’ve never heard of this with this particular stick… unless you are using an adaptor to play on DC, PC, xbox or whatever. And PS2 3s is supposed to be essentially free of input lag.
Lag also might be caused by the screen you are playing on, are you playing on a projector or LCD monitor?
Rehan (Dead Man Inc.)
I play with the joystick in my lap. But only when no one else is around.
(Sorry i couldn’t help myself, i have a dirty mind) 
I learned how to play marvel (the first game I played on a stick), at my house on a DC and not in the arcade. So I’ve been using the joystick on my lap since my ROM learning days up til now and playing any OTHER way is weird to me.
playing at an arcade or playing on my lap is absolutely no different to me
the difference comes in playing on my lap and playing with the stick on the floor in front of me
if its in front of me im not even half as good as id be if it was on my lap, or if i was at the arcade.
Lag- No adapter, regular TV. It always feels like it exists, or the CPU cheats like fuck to make sure that I miss 3/4 of my parries.
Anyways, in the end, I just said “fuck that”, and grabbed a bunch of quarters and headed off to the arcade. Then I came home and cut the spring on my joystick even more. It’s better, but still feels like shit to me. I’ll probably replace the joystick later, when I actually care about playing 3s on my PS2 again.
And I can do the ROM infinte on DC, but it feels like there’s so much more leeway to do crap in MvC2 than in 3s. And this is coming from someone who doesn’t actually play MvC2, except to do random flashy combos. (It took me about all of 2 years to learn Cable’s lk, mk, hk, AHVB, but about 30 mins to semi-learn the ROM infinite.)
Edit: True, for that comment, the moment your ghetto pass expires, I’m calling deportation on you. :tup: