If I could get the button layout of a stick(I mean same dimensions too) on a control pad that would be the shit for me.
that would be a very large pad
Indeed
I was wondering if anybody would catch onto that.
word.
Yeah I know all about the Saturn pad, but I’m thinking on a larger scale. Maybe I’ll get off my ass and actually build my pad-stick one of these days.
you’re being sarcastic right? that’s isn’t even hard to do.
sonicspear64 - Thanks for the link to get cheap saturn pads! I’m probably gonna get me some more now (actually all I really need are the replacement rubbers for the buttons/d-pad).
Dark Geese - You said it brother. PS2 Saturn Pad - THE GREATEST 2D Fighter Pad EVER made! (OG Sat pad would have been the best, but Sega has had a historically strange paranoia of putting in Select Buttons on their controllers.)
I used to be a DEVOUT stick player myself. While decent pads have been developed over the years (like the SNES or PS2 controllers to name a couple), they have always somehow felt lacking in feel for 2D Fighters, be it speed, control, etc.
Even w/ sticks, unless I was sitting on a bar stool in some arcade somewhere, portable sticks just didn’t feel right to me because they would move around. And obviously they are much more of a pain to drag to tournies than pads.
When Sega released the 2nd version of their Saturn pad (the 1st was actually decent, a bit ugly and slightly lacking in feel, but not too bad actually) I COULD NOT BELIEVE how freaking good it felt! Excution of moves and combos came SOOO naturally. It was almost blasphemy from a pure Stick Enthusiasts stand point.
The PS2 Saturn Pad that was released not too long back was a GODSEND for those lucky enough to have gotten up on them. PS(2) is pretty much the standard when it comes to controllers. This pad pretty much solved compatibility issues, plus they FINALLY put a Select Button on it which REALLY seeled the deal.
I’ve been getting FANTASTIC results with both the original and PS2 Sat pads. I don’t however take any more or less pleasure in winning people on stick than I do on pad.
The bottom line is that:
- There are advantages to pad, and there are advantages to stick.
- There are disadvantages to pad, and there are disadvantages to stick.
- Playing on stick or pad is mostly a matter of preference.
- It ALL comes down to a player’s skills!
Props to all the players who rep their skills on pad, stick or whatevers!
Keep Play’n. Peace
i like sticks. its like a whole new world in the custom sticks thread.
Ooh this is nice, since I have nothing better to buy with my paycheck than comics and fighting games I’ll buy it. On another note that’s similar: Controllers aren’t like region coded right? I don’t feel like wasting $20 on an extra controller for my Jap PS2 when I just recently bought a new one, I know this is a retarded question, but I’m techno-illiterate in every way.
Doing the ROM on pad isn’t hard. Before I made the transition to stick, I could do just about anything and everything in Marvel using a DC pad, but it was quite uncomfortable and never as consistent as using a stick came to be later.
Playing stick full-time was difficult. I’ve been using arcade sticks for YEARS, but before I had one, it was just that, an arcade stick. I’d probably play Marvel 5 days on the pad during random practice, then 2 days during the weekends at an arcade. Your muscles simply don’t have anything memorized when you start, but it doesn’t take long for them to acquire a memory for arcade style inputs. Probably took me 5 days or less before I transitioned all of my Marvel abilities to stick, and it felt GREAT.
Now, if you want something difficult, try switching from HAPP parts to Sanwa to play Marvel…
PS2 Sega Saturn - Besides a select button, is there any actual advantage over the regular Sega Saturn pad? Just curious.
good news for you, controllers/converters aren’t region coded 
Well, this is not rocket science. The fighting game gender is in general made for playing with sticks. By the reasons previously mentioned here, for most people sticks will be better than pads.
Still, mind games and proper timing and spacing are what fightig games are all about. As long as your execution is decent, any setup will be good enough to make you win most games against players who don’t have the same timing, spacing and mind games that you do.
All things equal, you should get and play on a stick. But all things aren’t equal. Maybe you value the convenience, price or even familiarity you have with your pad. Then go with the pad.
remix1213 (nelson reyes) did it to me, one night, at 3am, we were playing marvel, and this guy gets out of my hg xx temp combo on pad… i was using the hg xx temp combo to my advantage, cuz he couldn’t mash it… but then he did, an di’m like, WTF!!!
and for the record:
i play both… this is how i see it…
cancels and other things like that on pad are much harder, as they hurt my thumb.
i learned to rom on pad
i’m better in ssf2 snes on pad, but better at super turbo on stick
i learned to fast fly on computer keyboard, then pad, then stick
i learned to iad on pad, and can iad towards either direction well on pad. whereas on stick, i have trouble going towards the left.
Not really…except that with the PS2 Saturn pad you can use it on PS2…
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It has never failed me either…**
I used to play with the Akuma PS2 SF3 Nuby controller…
My execution was around 70% and I wasnt winning with it…so I dropped it…
I got the Saturn PS2 pad and I been winning tournaments/placing high ever since as now if I ever miss anything I know its on me…
:lovin:
True story!!! :tup:
I learned to cancel not only on a pad, but on a *PSP *nub. Oddly, I prefer it over a PS2 pad anyday (mostly because I haven’t played on a PS2 pad in ages). I should show up at a competition with a PS2 compatibility mod on a PSP…
well aren’t you fantastic? you deserve a cookie