xbox360 controllers

Guardians Knight · Post by **Guardians Knight** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 7:00 pm

what is the best for shoot em ups? the joypad that came with the console seems ok, but i wonder if there any better controllers out there?

dmauro · Post by **dmauro** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 7:49 pm

This one.

If you want one sooner, or if you want a Seimitsu stick, make a custom:

Damocles · Post by **Damocles** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 7:58 pm

Shaving the body surrounding the d-pad will improve the stock pad dramatically.

Post by **Ghegs** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 8:06 pm

Hori made a pad for 360 which I hear has an excellent d-pad, but the controller's in very short supply. Whenever they pop up on eBay they tend to go for ~$80 or so, quite an insane price.

brokenhalo · Post by **brokenhalo** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 8:11 pm

Ghegs wrote:Hori made a pad for 360 which I hear has an excellent d-pad, but the controller's in very short supply. Whenever they pop up on eBay they tend to go for ~$80 or so, quite an insane price.

a few weeks back somebody bought a bunch of those controllers from akihabarashop.com. don't know how much they cost, but Per can probably get them if you were interested.

MOSQUITO FIGHTER · Post by **MOSQUITO FIGHTER** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 8:15 pm

The Street Fighter IV pads might be decent.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_vg?ur ... ad&x=0&y=0

I already have the TE stick preordered. Should be awesome.

dmauro · Post by **dmauro** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 9:37 pm

Damocles wrote:Shaving the body surrounding the d-pad will improve the stock pad dramatically.

qft
I don't even like playing games that only make occasional use of the d-pad on a controller that hasn't had this simple mod done.

Guardians Knight · Post by **Guardians Knight** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 6:07 pm

shaving the body? can you be more specific plz?

http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-eq- ... -2o3r.html

this worth getting and then looking for a saturn ps2 pad? i sware by my old saturn pads

dmauro · Post by **dmauro** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 6:51 pm

360 d-pad fix

Guardians Knight · Post by **Guardians Knight** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 7:16 pm

^^ thanks a lot, nice and easy that, will give it a go once ive got the right size star screw driver

iatneH · Post by **iatneH** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 7:26 pm

Thanks for the mod link, I actually had a chance to try out a 360 pad for the first time last night and I am going to try to buy one today for my PC.

Although to be honest, I found the diagonals a bit too sensitive (i.e. hitting diagonals when I want to just hit ordinal), or maybe I'm just not used to using controllers where I have to make that kind of angle with my thumb to reach the D-pad. I have the same problem with the Dreamcast pad.

edit: LOL, Mad Catz probably never heard of Sanwa before Lizardlick contacted them...

edit2: Picked up a 1st party wired pad just earlier today, and aside from the D-pad (obviously), I am impressed. It is quite comfortable to hold, the software installed easily and there is no detectable lag compared to my PS2 adaptors and Wii Remote via Bluetooth. Emulators are actually playable now. I will surely be cracking it open for the mod as soon as I get home tonight.

dmauro · Post by **dmauro** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 8:55 pm

iatneH wrote:edit: LOL, Mad Catz probably never heard of Sanwa before Lizardlick contacted them...

Was Lizardlick somehow involved in the creation of the SFIV TE stick?

iatneH · Post by **iatneH** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 10:51 pm

Perhaps I misunderstood the wording at Lizardlick's pre-order page, "in association with Mad Catz". At any rate, I find it hard to believe that MC would make non-shit controllers completely by themselves.

KBZ · Post by **KBZ** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 7:40 pm

it was designed by someone from the srk and tekken scene.

Guardians Knight · Post by **Guardians Knight** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 6:21 pm

so i just got my hands on a hori joypad, very nice, compared to the official joypad's dpad this is infinitely better! altho the trigger buttons dont feel as nice to press, not sure if its gonna end up being worth the £55 i paid for it like, but money is no object