Cheating is an unfair advantage. Fair is remaining within the limitations of the game. If that is not your definition of unfair, then keyboards are no worse than say a high-tier character.
All of that is moot though, because no one accepts your argument about keyboards in the first place.
I heard that if you use a keyboard for fighting games, you can do a full screen, standing 720 with T.Hawk and not lose any meter.
^ yep and he has a fireball attack too!
I also heard that like… if you beat everyone perfect using a keyboard and not a stick you can fight and play as shen long. ITS TRUE I TELL YOU
But seriously, I think it would be interesting to see if there’s any validity through numbers that using a keyboard would make performing any complicated sequences faster.
-Keyboard can press two opposite directions at a time. I personally don’t know if there are shenanigans with this, but it at least means you could probably walk forward, block on reaction faster just by releasing a button.
-I’d imagine going from Down to Up with keyboard to be very annoying. Releasing a button, moving up, pressing a button, rather than the smooth stick motion, maybe add holding back while you’re at it.
Just two things that I wanted to add.
Instead of all this speculation about how hard it is.
Go on GGPO and try it.
nope, middle finger can easily move from your down key to your up.
Your pix makes me LOL :bgrin:
that happens to me all the time. i’ve had to learn to play without FDF. it’s led me to play with other characters that don’t use FDF and i’m a better with more characters as a result.
it’s also led me to master the hit range of regular attacks. i didn’t realize just how dominant you can be if you simply master that concept. you can even beat someone without special moves. it’s no fun but it works.
that’s amazing. that standing flash kick is blowing my mind. (i guess you do it at the same time as the light punch)
i picked up the keyboard again in june and i’ve been playing alot but i just can’t pull those moves off for the life of me. especialy the 360. maybe it’s cuz i have my U,D,L,R on my right hand instead of my left. heh.
playing with the keyboard changed my approach to the game. it has made me a beast with the arcade stick. i even think i could take on daigo. lol.
Depends on what you’re running. On MAME, per example, if you press both directions it acts as if you didn’t input anything, while in certain games there’s a priority direction, like press right and left and right comes out every time.
in the evo stream some guy came to evo with an all sanwa keyboard layout stick. it was stickless with buttons for a joystick. the plus side to making one of those is it’s probably cheap as hell. just gotta get a box and buy 10 sanwa buttons with a PCB and your good to go.
besides 360 and 720 command throws, keyboard is a lot more effecient than a controllers. in china, almost every teenager plays KOF and other fighting games on PC with keyboard, and most of them do better on a keyboard than they play on an actual arcade machine.
keyboard has made so much inpact on chinese fighting game community that when people discuss about combos, directional inputs are replaced by numbers according to the number pad on keyboards.
EX: hadoken: 2,6+P; shoryuken: 6,2,3+P; sonic boom: 4(charge)6+P etc.
about 6 months ago when I was still play HDR religiously I started using stick, I did start to enjoy playing on. If I had the money I would be more inclined to buy a good stick than create a keyboard layout
the cost savings of 4 sanwa buttons vs. a JLF is something like 12 bucks.
the number notation has nothing to do with playing on keyboard. It’s the standard for VF aswell. In Japan, where everyone plays on arcade.
I knew a friend who plays fighting games with a keyboard. I was like WTF! A lot of people these days who plays fighting games on a PC use keyboard.
loll DAMN!!! I really wonder how they do their combos with a keyboard. I just can’t imagine myself do my combos on a keyboard. Control pad 4 the win!!
Choke on your own awesomeness, plzkthnxbai
I may be wrong on this but wasn’t it a quick hand notation that lets someone easily state when you need to be in neutral to input a command?