forget about 3p/3k for a minute. It could be real useful having something like an extra HP button, especially for someone with a 1 frame link. 2 chances to hit the link?
For anyone who calls mapping buttons in game a macro you fail at life.
Mapping is using the options available in game to set what buttons do what.
Macroing is using a third party controller or software to set several commands to one button press. As in button X now does an ultra.
Mapping is always allowed at tournaments.
Macroing is always banned.
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Actually the technical term for macro means anything that allows you to perform more than one input for one button press. So mapping another HP to the top right button isn’t a macro, whereas mapping 3 punches is mapping 3 inputs to one button. Therefore it’s technically a macro. Learn to know what your words mean before saying what is and isn’t a macro. 
i think the op is specifically asking for the purpose of having 2 fp buttons so that it’s easier to piano shit like hundred hand slap, electricity, gen chops… whatever.
it makes it easier to do and not accidentally get ex version.
this is “probably” legal at most tourneys but is absolutely fucken scrubby as hell.
just learn it correctly and stop trying to take the easy way out.
you get no respect for using extra buttons like a scrub.
I lol’d 
Use the extra buttons all you want, the only people that will think you’re a scrub for it are the people you probably don’t want to be associated with in the first place.
I’m not debating about the usefulness (or lack of usefulness) of a duplicate button, but it seems to me that when the rule say:
“Hardware macros, rapid-fire, or other hardware assisted mechinsims are strictly forbidden”
Then duplicating a button by wire-means could be apprehended as cheating.
Although…“Not seen, not taken!”
But it’s not.
This is off-topic, but a funny thought:
Someone could hack one of those programmable pads for their custom stick. Set one of the buttons to some combo like Elf’s RSF combo. No tournament ever checks the sticks. You could mimic the button presses during the combo to avoid suspicion, lol. Would be pretty easy to get away with as far as I can tell.
Maybe somewhere down the line if this scene gets serious enough, the tournaments will start providing the controllers to play on, giving you a couple to choose from.
No different than double tapping, its just preference really. So you want to double tap one button, or single tap two buttons?
(Funny?) Story:
I got the Alpha pack for PS2 because I loved SFA3 back in its day, when to my dismay I was having some trouble activating V-ism, and it was costing me matches. I figured the timing was just really tight because it was an older, more hardcore game, so I caved in and bound one of the extra buttons on my stick to lp + lk. The funny thing is I STILL get a jab sometimes.
Furthermore, sometimes I try to teleport with Akuma using 3p macro and an lp shoryu comes out…that should be impossible! I suppose it COULD be a faulty in game macro, but the fact that I also have trouble doing it without macros leads me to believe that its just a very shitty, shitty version of the game and it just plain misses inputs.
Someone needs to come out with Arcade perfect A3 so we can see that shit at evo.
Someone pathetic enough to try something like that would definitly suck ass at the game anyways so it wouldn’t really matter.
Tourney provided controllers will never ever happen because we would all drown in the flood of tears that comes from people (legitimately or not) claiming they lost matches due to a faulty controller that wasn’t their responsibility.
Are you playing it on PS3? If so, that’s your problem. It’s fine on PS2.
A3 won’t ever be back in Evo.
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So why is this thread in the SF4 section anyway?
When I do a drumming motion with my fingers, I naturally/habitually start with my pinky then move inward. For characters with mash specials this means that the move I whiff before doing the special would be fierce/roundhouse. I suppose making the far right buttons jab/short would be helpful for me and anyone else with that mental block(I use Bison though so whatever).
i double tap my ultra button baby XD
only reason i don’t care if someone macros is because if they need to macro, they aren’t going to win
I do not see the reason to ban them, sounds like some tournament nazis are trying to restore the 1991 arcade cabinets…I am sure some smash players would do ban them though just like they ban everything in their own game.
What he’s trying to say is that having 8 buttons on a stick allows the manufacturer to cater to both 6-style layouts from Japanese and American Arcades.
The buttons in the American arcades are more horizontal (so if someone was accustomed to that they use the 6 rightmost buttons), the buttons in the Japanese arcades are more slanted (so if someone was accustomed to that they use the 6 leftmost buttons).
I really shouldn’t contribute to this thread because it sucks, but it’s already at the top so whatever.
ElectricBalls, it seems like you just started this thread so you’d have an excuse to rail against “arcade nazis.” Wow.
As for the topic, who gives a shit? I can’t believe everyone is fired up about this. If someone really has trouble with executing hands/elec or they can’t freakin’ press two buttons to focus/throw, then whatever. I’m not too worried about that person… so he can now hit HP elec/hands whenever he wants… big whoop… and if that person beats me in a tournament, then “that fucker used a throw button to beat me!” won’t be one of the first things on my mind.