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ThirdMarioBro
09-03-2006, 05:29 AM
Microsoft won't allow 3rd parties to manufacture controllers until 2007, and Sega's Saturn PC USB lookalike pad turned out to have a botched D-Pad and shoddy design. It's doubtful we will soon recieve a decent fighting controller for the 360, so screw it.

Sadly, not all of us are smart enough to pull this feat off.

Saturn Pad Wired to 360 (http://psp.joystiq.com/2006/08/11/360-d-pad-sucking-use-a-saturn-gamepad/)

So, let's just make the one we've got usable.

Take Sand Paper to your 360 pad for a cheap and rather painless D-Pad mod.

http://www.ufighterx.com/guides/videogame/360dpadfix/360dpadfix.htm

There's no soldering required. You're basically just rubbing down the plastic notches in the controller that fu*k up the "smooth rotational movements" we so loved from the Saturn days. It will make the pad more loose, but you can hold it in any direction easily like a standard D-Pad, and it should make most any title that uses the D-Pad more flexable.

There's nothing wrong with SFII:Hyper Fighting (outside of typical fighting game online lag). It's the D-Pad basically screwing every game that uses it for more than weapons changing. I'll be doing this to my controller tomorrow.

Spitfire
09-03-2006, 05:37 AM
Every game I have doesn't use the D-pad for anything more then weapon changing. So yeah <_< After using the gamecube D-pad the 360 one is a blessing.

Kid Icarus
09-03-2006, 10:34 AM
Hah, I know spit... I picked up some Pellican 'retro' controller yesterday so I could finally start kicking some ass in the Mega Man X collection. >_>.