Does anyone else get this? This always happens to me after a few matches against people. I guess it’s a minor adrenal rush, and I get needles and pins in my hands, and have to stop playing for a good five minutes.
Apparently, not many people share this annoyance with me, but I would like to know if anyone else gets that when playing on a joystick or at the arcade, because I do all the time. If so, do you have a means to avoid it, or a solution?
The way my custom joystick is built, it doesn’t really allow for me to cut off circulation when playing either.
You didn’t specifically mention pain, so I assume it doesn’t actually hurt.
Does it happen all the time, or just when you’re way too excited about a match? It’s not unheard of for crazy-hype to make your extremities feel tingly. (No joke!) :looney:
Rule deadfrogs theory out by playing in training mode using Twelve whilst daydreaming about algebra.
If you get pins and needles, your either mad kinky on maths and crap characters or you need to see a doctor
shin00bi: I’d personally see a doctor. I haven’t heard of anyone who gets that everytime they play. The cases I’m used to seeing is when a person is new to using a stick, he feels pain when playing too much. But this usually stops happening fairly quickly.
I used a gamepad many time but I’ve a problem my tumble finger pain. what’s about joystick. more likey risk than gamepad. If long throw move stick is more pain than short throw. A japan stick is short throw. A Happ stick is long throw movement.
To avoid blistering on a pad, I use the end of my shirt, and put that over my thumb. I generally avoid the d-pad whenever I can though. It’s just not me anymore.
When I’m at the arcade, I will use the Happ/iL stuff. Anywhere from light to medium springs. But when I’m at home, I use my preferred Seimitsu, ls-32, along with Happ Competition buttons. I can post a pic of my useable stick when I get home, I guess.
I always rest my hands afterwards. Especially if I win, since I don’t have to hit continue or w/e. It’s the back-to-back matches that get me. Like if I win when I play casuals with friends, (i don’t have to pass the controller to someone else), or lately, I’ve been trying my hand at GGPO, and of course, it’s always back-to-back even if you lose. I don’t press more buttons than I have to, between matches.
I can also rapidly tap buttons. You know, sort of make my hand vibrate to get the equivalent of turbo (minor charge-up period). I do that sometimes, depending on the need.
Instead of resting them, try doing little hand and wrist exercises and stretches. Even though it would only be for a few seconds, I find that for myself at least it helps a lot. It’s like keeping them warmed up for the next game. I don’t get that “pins and needles” feeling, but I do get pretty bad cramping in my right hand due to breaking it a few years back and never having gone to a doctor about it
Yeah, it sounds like you’re holding the stick fucked up and it is somehow cutting off circulation to your hands. Try different joystick positions or something. If that doesn’t work, or if it ever gets worse, go to the doctor.
