i really don’t know what to say
…eh, I think this is just you having never played on a stick before. There are a ton of right-handed people who play on the stick with the standard layout without having to resort to tiger style(cross-armed). Just take it slow and try to practice basic motions and movements until you feel you’ve gotten used to it.
There is one thing I wish to ask though, have you ever played on a standard console d-pad before?
aku, I did and it felt horible cause of the same problem, but i have a pad where analog is in right side and butons are in left side, it feels perfect
Edit: I tried playing on keyboard fighting games using my left hand for movement, i cant play like this too
Remember the Atari 2600 Joystick? It was a right handed stick/left handed fire. Lots of 2 player games had right stick left fire. Most non-competitive games (1 player at a time) had buttons on both sides and you chose your side. In that case, I chose the right hand. When the NES came out, I was finger-typing while resting the pad on the floor. This was easiest because playing with thumbs was awkward and finger typing was like typing on a computer, or pressing buttons. When they include shoulder buttons, that’s when I’m forced to use thumbs on a Joypad.
When my dad bought me an NES Advantage, I complained because a left handed jostick was awkward. The only reason left handed sticks (right fire) are more common is because they mirror NES Pads, and because NES was the most dominant system in history, it just carried over to Street Fighter. If Atari had been the dominant force after 1985, the lefties would be complaining, but someone would cater to their market. The last right handed stick I’ve seen was for the 7800 and Sega Master System.
For Dreamcast and Playstation 1 and 2 fighting games, I might recommend an Alloy Stick for DC or Shadow Blade for PS1/2 It lets you program west to be east, east to be west, north to be south, south to be north and rearrnage the buttons so punches are the (what was) bottom row, kicks on the top (Don’t switch left to right orientation of buttons) rotate the joystick 180 degrees, and voila, right handed joystick. Punches are now upper buttons, kicks are lower buttons, and lights are still index finger, middles middle finger and heavy’s ring finger. There’s only one problem. IF you use your hole hand to press buttons, the left hand is “backcocked” placing your wrist at an unnatural angle. IF it’s true that you plan an offense and react as defense, then since your buttons are offense, you can either reprogram the buttons, so that the upper left button and lower right button are ignored and the contour would flow better for right handers, or if you’ve finger typed like my NES joypad, you can do that too.
As for muscle memory, since I played Street Fighter for the Genesis and Saturn, my finger typing made me left handed in those games, but the physical stick is right handed. I won a decent number of matches with my right handed stick. But one day, when my stick didn’t work, I had to adapt to a left handed stick (right fire). Playing a character I never played in SF4, Rose (I haven’t bothered playing the 1up vs cpu mode before to earn the extra fighters.) i found her best move was the soul throw, which is a dragon punch motion, and believe it or not, I pulled off enough left handed soul throws that I beat that opponent. Surprised both of us. (By the way, we were playing random vs random, on a machine that has the extra fighters, which explains how I got Rose)
I guess I’m one of the few ambidextrous Street Fighters. I prefer my right handed joystick, but can deal with the left. Tomorrow, I’ll write about a product that will let people flirt with right handed fighting, but if they don’t like it, should have a decent left handed stick. This is designed to be a mass market stick if mass produced. One hint is that I cannibalized a Shadow Blade to see if I can make universal ambidextrous stick with design good for both hands. See you tomorrow.
To the OP: Unless you’ve been practicing for like 1-2 months with the stick I don’t see the point in going crosshanded or switching layouts and shit like that. Man up and practice with the original imo. It takes time and it’s awkward for everyone when they start. As soon as you start building some muscle memory all that “pain” goes away. I played on pad and keyboards pre SF4 for my fighters but I stuck with it and don’t have any problems nowadays.
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I’m currently deciding if I should switch to crosshand…I’ve always played with traditional d-pad, stick on the left and I don’t struggle much…But I’m so right handed I figure I may have more potential if I use the right for the stick, my only worry is that it may give a very very slight delay to my button pressing.
As was well said by jabhadouken there is always a processing delay when you have to do something with your unnatural side and I dunno if I’d be best with superior stick control and slight button delay or vice versa…
I wonder if being left handed is what makes my button execution suck so badly…
Nah I’m just a scrub. :lol:
This is totally me.
I’m left handed, I’ve played guitar since I was 4. At the age of 15, due to everyone else I knew having right-handed guitars, I switched to righty. At first it was hard but I was a dedicated musician, and now at the age of 20, I am able to play right-handed guitars just as good as I was at left, in fact, I can’t play a left-handed guitar because I’m so used to it.
The point here is, just try it. I know it feels weird and wrong at first, but I guess if you put some persistance behind you, you will learn, eventually. You just have to think about how much dedication you have to fighting games.
On a brighter note, if this plan fails, at least you have the option of getting a custom stick made for you.
A bit of odd advice… but try playing Tira in Soul Calibur 4 and you’ll get used to using the stick with your left hand really quickly. I had never learned stick until SC4 and happened to main Tira, thing is she has 5x dash movements for her moves. do forward, forward, forward, forward, forward, ‘A’ a few hundred times and that left hand will strengthen right up.: ) Outside that it’s just time.
I never thought I could do certain moves on certain sides due to the complex movements of my left hand that were needed, and now I play a solid C. Viper on both sides reliably enough that I don’t even notice what side I’m on sometimes. (I used to dash under just to get to the right side on jumps;))
from here on out, keyboard users should put directions on WASD and action buttons on the numpad or iop kl; to avoid this type of thing
As a right handed as well, i changed my layout and i am happy with it (right stick, left buttons). Man, do it your own way. You don’t like the way fightsticks are designed ? Be an example. Show the world that you are not happy with it. If more people acted like this, instead of just following the crow just for fear of not being standardized, there would be proper right-handed stick in the market right now. This mentality works for everything else also… Peace and be yourself 
As a left-hander, i am so happy that game controller & stick design turned out like it did!!
I can’t imagine using stick or D-pad with my right-hand. And i don’t know how you hardcore righty’s can stand using stick & D-Pad with your left. lol.