You have put in nowhere near enough time to learn stick. This is most likely going to be a hole you dump money in with no results and in the time you spent you could have learned to play with a joystick.
If your execution is “flawless,” why are you bothering to begin with. Why not get a real nice gamepad like a Hori Commander?
This is an excellent example of trying to reinvent the wheel in order to avoid practicing.
You’re much better off in the long run just buckling down and getting used to playing on a stick.
I had the EXACT SAME IDEA 1-2yrs back, and bought that Thumbstick for that very reason.
Took it out the box. And then toyed with it.
It is HORRID. It feels nothing close to a d-pad, as the whole ensemble is actually a tiny stick with a horrid flat thumb pad (instead of a balltop).
It’s stiff, the d-pad twists, and I just couldn’t see myself EVER using it.
Save your money, and just get some cheap PS1 pads to mess with.
Or get that SNES Capcom Pad Soldier; it might work with the Retro Adaptor
It’s good to know that d pad is shit.
next idea. Buy a Sega USB pad off ebay. Now you only need to hack the directions and ground off the pad. Cut the usb part off and bolt the pad to a box. Wire the rest of the buttons as usual.
I’m sorta with Starcade on this. This will be hole to sink money into. I understand that learning to adapt is expensive too because time is money and money might be cheaper for you in this case. I’d do it if I wasn’t so busy because I like trying experimental things, but yeah I got a project at work that I’m actually supposed to be working on instead of typing here.
lol as we speak, I’m still practicing, but to think that “years” is the kind of time I’m looking at for a full transition. Ehh, that’ s a pretty beefy turnoff. There are some benefits, but i don’t believe those benefits are really worth a years worth of frustration. That’d be like working a job without getting paid for a year because I know that if I do I can get a 5 % salary increase NEXT year.
If it sounds like I’m trying to reinvent the wheel to avoid practicing, you’re absolutely right. I am most definitely trying to avoid practicing a control method that I don’t know well. Instead, I’m trying to find someone who can make me a custom controller, in the style that I’m good at 
The easiest way to do this sort of thing is to hack out just the buttons on a pad with a cross that you like, and solder in wires, then cut a hole in a case case so that it holds the new buttons and the pad appropriately. Dual-system capacity with that could be a little trickier though.
Doesn’t make that much sense to pay $150 for a TE (or destroy the one you have) when all you want is a chunk off the front plate and the buttons.
If you don’t care too much about the dual-system capacity this isn’t that hard. The D-Pads are generally integrated with the body of the controller in mass-produced ones, so you can’t easily pull it from one, and mount it somewhere else.
I don’t quite think it is “years” For some people it is 3 months of casual play. It took me about 1 month to learn how to use an SNES pad as well as a joystick, since my first Street Fighter II experience involved me inserting a coin.
This is how I would imagine on how it would look. Make a box for the push buttons. As for the controller, it could be mounted two ways. Either something semi flexible and solid hold up the 360 Fightpad controller from the middle bottom and to run wires through to the box or try and find those controller holders from those video game demo stands to hold the controller.
For wiring Dual mod fightpad.
http://www.shoryuken.com/showthread.php?t=209334&highlight=dual+mod+fightpad
and run some extra wires to the buttons. Could also put the PS3 Pcb in the box instead of inside the controller just different wiring. Personal preference I would just dual mod the pad just to have it just in case you want to play fully on pad and have a plug in port on the controller and box.
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I still can’t believe you ended up making it, rtdzign 
i guess practice means nothing to people.
same here.
Another Alternative would be to wire a D-pad similar to a nunchuck or the new playstation move sub-controller, and have it connect to the button case, making the case large enough to be stable to play on your lap or table…
Whoops posted in the wrong thread.
Mount a PS1 pad on the left side of some project box. Or just learn to play stick. It took me a few months before I could dash reliably and probably several more before I could fadc ultra on a stick, but it was worth it.
Man up and learn to play stick, it’s not that hard. You’ll thank yourself later.
haha f***n’ SF4 Bandwagon noobs, sorry i had to get it off my chest.
