Bought a 360 wired Guile round 2 fightpad used it for about an hour and the left shoulder buttons broken already doesn’t click or move anymore I’d avoid these things like the plague unless you get them cheap they have dreadful build quality.
Didn’t abuse the pad what so ever very light use for about an hour shocking build quality.
How many series of fightpads are there?
Fightpad
Fightpad Round 2
Super Street Fighter FightPad
is that right?
are any of them wired?
Had one. Wasn’t a big fan of the mushy directional pad, but adjusted. Enjoyed it… for 2 days, broken. Had a Hori EX2 - wasn’t a fan of the button layout/size, tried out the Marvel PDP - microswitch directional isn’t for me, still looking for a suitable pad.
There are also the WWE Brawl Fightpads. They are all the same.
All the PS3 fightpads are wireless.
All the 360 fightpads are wired.
The best solution for a wired ps3 pad is to get Gummowned to dual mod a 360 one with a Dualstrike SMD PCB.
Thought I’d give my two cents on these pads.
Got a Bison-Round Two fightpad online, delivered a few days later. The back has a rubberised feel, which makes gripping it somewhat easier than my last pad (an old PS2 pad I’d modded). The switch that changes between d-pad, left-analogue and right-analogue is on the lower back, and is pretty out of the way, so no accidental pushing.
I found that if I had it switched to left-analogue or right-analogue mode, there was a weird lag when crouching low and going forward. So if I crouched facing right at (1) and went forward (6), there’d be a half second pause, where the input would be read as (3), making you crouch forward.
I just tested this again though, and it seems to not be happening anymore. Still, was weird.
The d-pad itself is pretty good I think. I first tested it on MvC3, and a lot of moves were tricky coming out (Wesker teleports for example). However, I think it’s just a matter of applying the right pressure when doing (623) motions. After a few days, I rarely had trouble pulling off moves (and this is coming from someone who used that PS2 pad for literally years, so most likely a matter of adjusting to the new pad).
SSF4 is fine from what I’ve played. I might say I play better now maybe. I have had zero problems with inputs and manage 1-frame links fine (in that, only my timing is to blame for when I can’t pull them off).
The pads also work fine on PC, assuming you have the XBOX360 driver.
Never touched the turbo function, so can’t comment on it.
There’s a weird problem when writing messages with it though, in that you can’t navigate the character pages (from alphabet to symbols) using LT and RT (or LB RB whichever). It clearly reads my inputs, as the buttons on screen light up when using them to navigate, but I can only go to a different page if I move the cursor to the little button on screen that changes menu’s and pressing a on it (hope that makes sense).
Had it for two weeks, so can’t comment on whether or not they slowly degrade after a few months. I hope not, as I rather like it.
yes.
Get a Hori fighting commander 3 pad. I got one and love it. I actually own 2 now. It’s wired for Ps3 and much better than the madcatz pad.
The D pad is slight nicer.
it stopped reading diagnal signals within 2 days
cant perform any charge moves after 10 hours of usage 1/10.
Another one with diagonal problems
I had an cheap cheap arcade stick before $20 one, I have it three weeks and while alot of things where easier I simply never gained any semblance of control about what I was doing.
I am thinking about buying a HORI V3 stick, just because if I ever want to be OK I need every advantage I can get but… it sounds like a 1-3 month long 30=40hr adaption excerise. Ultras and command grabs are suddenly peanuts but inadvertant jumping and… getting use to using my pinky to man a whole button felt awkward
It seems like you have to KNOW what you are going to do on a stick so you have to get your fingers ready whether its the lk lk ex scissors or the medium punch ex scissors, it was hard for me to predict and know what i wanted to do next, and going from lk to lp mk to mp I also found hard using just the one finger,
THAT SAID the other option is the Hori fighting commander controller it’s $60 lesss than the V3 too, the PAD looks similar to the PS3 one though which kind of confuses me and safe to say I dont understand why the BUTTONS on these pads are… set out to imitate a stick… Im still using my thumb bro your just kind of increasing the distance my thumb has to travel what’s with it?
The madcatz pad more or less burnt me, going back to the PS3 pad for a few games before I seriously wanted it back! Looser buttons easier feel on the dpad to tell when I have a charge and the diagonals where really good till they suddenly stopped responding. I guess I will probably try the Hori pad first, I doubt it will offer me much more than the madcatz though if any really, and If Im unhappy with that I GUESS it’s either the stick or stop playing.
Im on the PS3 luckily
@xbox people prefer wired to forking out for batterys by the way too!
Ive mained Bison for long time and recently trying to pick up Dan. I imagine distinguishing between shoryuken & hadoken will be utter hell on a stick, still get the odd mix up of the wrong move coming out on a pad.
I kept forgetting about the medium kicks as well on the stick some of Bison’s best stuff my guess is I may of had my hand setup wrong eg just using two fingers or whatever.
The medium punch hard kick feel awkward as you know middle finger extended ring finger bent right back, same with the end buttons, Which I changed to focus and throw, I dont trust my pinky in the slightest especially when its required to tap fast.
H8 ps3 pad, madcatz didnt do a whole lot for me either hope the fighting commander from hori saves me, feeling awfully pessimistic though. Order it on payday and it will probably be here in a week and a half so i report back