I grew up on american cabs and i cant stand the american layout. i always used my thumb for lk and i would get finger cramps when playing a few matches. When i use a japanese layout I can play for hours on end without problems.
I never really played SNK games seriously. In my local arcade they hardly ever changed the games in the Neo-Geo cabinet. For a long time I was only into computer games, so I missed the fighting game boom of the early 90’s. I didn’t get back into the arcades until about 95. Consequently, I’m more into 3D fighters, like Tekken and VF than 2D games, though I am looking forward to Street Fighter IV.
actually, the bottom four make up the Guilty Gear layout
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- K S HS
P ( ) ( ) ( )
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- K S HS
Good try though.
Truth, and seconded here. Further, every arcade machine around here uses either Ultimate buttons, or Concave Buttons w/ Horizontal Microswitch. I have not ONCE seen a Competition button used in this area, except in custom arcade sticks.
Because that’s what I grew up playing on, it’s what I’m used to, and prefer, if given the choice.
Another thing to be careful of is not let a bad first impression of something new sour you on it. I’d purchased a used XArcade, knowing they weren’t exactly well-loved, but not knowing how bad it sucked. Since it was the only stick I’d used that I knew had a Competition in it, when my ability to execute was impeded horribly, I placed it as the culprit. Wasn’t until after I gutted the thing and put the Competition into my SFAC that I found it wasn’t half bad.
I don’t press the Dust button that often either. 