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Best arcade joystick/pusbuttons for fighting games?
drowned_in_milk:
OK, now I've found alot of general answers to this question, but I want a specific one. I'm building arcade controls for my consoles and am wondering which joystick to use. My main focus is fighting games (specifically SFA3, Marvel Vs. Capcom, old 16-bit fighers, lots of Capcom!). I want the best fighter-specific joystick that I can get. I'm debating between the 4 HAPPs (Super, Competition, Ultimate, Universal) and am also wondering how the Ultimarc ones fare. I heard that the Ultimates are terrible, but since Capcom uses them, I'm wondering if they're all that bad. As I said, I'm mainly interested in fighting, so accurate/easy-to-trigger diagonals are a MUST; I can't tell you how frustrating it is trying to play SFA3 with a PS1 analog controller!
I'm also curious about the different types of pushbuttons. Living in the US, I'm accustomed to the concave ones, but the convex ones caught my eye... does any particular one work better with fighters, or is it all a matter of personal preference?
Thanks a bunch!
Steve
Sylentwulf:
Well, I have the ultimates. And the diagnols are great. TOO great.
it just doesn't feel tight enough, a little too loose.
From what I've heard, the competition ones seem to be good, someone else had mentioned surface mounting them on metal plates (not sure what's involved with that)
GroovyTuesdaY:
well, i can vouch whole heartedly for the happ competition joysticks!!!! I originally had bought a couple of happ supers to use in my panel and had been using them for almost a year now. Over the last year it always seemed a little more difficult then i had remembered it being to pull off some of the moves in street fighter 2 in the arcades. For example, pulling down and back to block didn't always seem like i could pull it off on dime like i remembered being able to do. The last week i received my HAPP COMPETITION joystick which i bought from THEREALBOBROBERTS.COM for 9.95 (i think. it was that or 8.95 or close in that range lol) and after playing street fighter for a couple of minutes, i was totally back in the groove again!!! So, for me, the competitions are better for fighters. Now don't get me wrong, the supers have served me faithfully over the last year, but sometimes i couldn't react quite the way i wanted to in some games that have you using fast diagnal movements. So there's my quick make of it for ya :)
Oh and i thought the happ ultimate stick was totally crap. If they were made for a specific game, i am glad i never got to play it lol
groovy~ :D
Yander:
One word about competitions. Everyone mentions how they slightly stick at the diagnols so it is harder to do circular moves. I found this to be untrue, they let you do all the moves it just seems easier to find the diagnols.
bigmoe:
Anyone use leafs for fighters?
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