So I dusted off the old MAS for Dreamcast and loaded up MVC2.
I can execute LP, HP, and all LP+HP supers virtually %100 percent of the time. The befuddling thing to me is, I can only execute the Dash like 1 out of 5 times.
Does anyone have any insight why this would happen, and how I could fix it?
Thanks,
Jack
My custom American arcade stick does the same deal. I think it’s just me though, I suck at MvC2.
Dropping Storm/Sent DHCs left and right, it’s a pain trying to activate sentinel fly mode, failed wave dashes, the whole deal.
Sorry I don’t have a solution, but I thought I’d just let you know you’re not the only one with this problem.
Yea man, me sucking definitely crossed my mind as for pinpointing the problem, put I don’t understand how I can super easily in training mode but can’t dash.
practice?
Naw man, I can dash on the d-pad no problem. I def need marvel2 practice, but Dashing has already been achieved. Plus my friend has the same problem when he tries my stick.
Dashing on a controller’s D-pad isn’t the same as a joystick.
Different equipment produces different results…
I could never do dashes consistently with the Sanwa JLF. It has horribly long throw and just doesn’t recenter/snap back very well at all. On the other hand, I can do dashes all day with the LS-32, LS-40, and LS-58.
Go figure.
I’ve played enough with the Seimitsu joysticks that I figure I’m about as good now as I would be playing on the Saturn pads. I’m NOT as good as I was in the mid-late 1990s but then again I don’t play videogames as much now and I was never as fanatical about that as a lot of other people. Back then and still today, videogame addiction is a huge cause of poor high school grades and college drop-out. You have to time-manage and moderate hobbies!
Some equipment just works better than others.
There’s a significant performance difference among the brands, guys… most of you will never figure that out unless you borrow a friend’s joystick or test them out at a tournament… (Reading or hearing about these things from other people is not the same as experiencing it.) Preferably a new joystick versus a tourney-worn, crapped out veteran joystick. You have to try and find this stuff out for yourself.
You have to get beyond blind brand loyalty or being cheap and just experiment to see what’s comfortable and works for you.
I would say the Japanese parts definitely have an advantage over American. No question they’re more sensitive and responsive. I do see the point that people prefer what they grew up with OR feel more comfortable with industrial (re: brute design, less breakable) American parts. (People should still buy the IL brand over Happ, though. The Chinese factory output is just too inconsistent with the Happ brand.)
There wouldn’t be such a big hobbyist of aftermarket mod parts for the JLF (sorry, but it’s the convenient example and the punching bag since it’s the stock lever in most stick bases) if it were as perfect as some people think.
You also don’t have to spend $25-$30 per joystick, either. I mentioned this before and I’ll repeat it again – there are quality clone joystick levers for both the Seimitsu LS-32 and Sanwa JLF if people are interested in saving money. The LS-32 clone (Classic Arcade stick aka “Zippyy”) is 0.187-tab only ($8-$10 normal retail) but the JLF clone comes in both 0.187-tab form (roughly $9) AND a PCB version with 5-pin harness connection (usually $10-$11) . By most reports, the clones are about as good as the genuine article and compatible with at least the microswitches if not the mounting plates of the brand names, too. And yes, most balltops and shaft covers should fit the JLF clone, too. Ditto on balltops for the Zippyy.
The problem is not with the joystick, it’s with the buttons. Dashing doesn’t require the left hand.
Uhm stick dashing is very useful in mvc2.
Jab stick dash jab pressure with cable/storm
2p dash stick backdash 2p dash is faster than using 2p for the backdash. But anyways
Sounds like a practice issue. If you can do 2p hypers its not the buttons