Chime In: Arcade Controls vs. SNES Controller

For fighting games.

I’ve been playing a lot of Super Street Fighter 2 for the SNES lately, and I just started to wonder how anyone could prefer playing with arcade controls over the perfect SNES controller. I actually have an arcade cabinet in my room, but I almost never use it because I just can’t get the same precision that I get on an SNES controller, my Hori pad, or the Wii Classic Controller. It just seems much easier to pull off moves when your fingers only have to move tenths of inches over when you have to move your entire hand.

But that’s just me, what do you all prefer?

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MrP on January 1, 2009 at 9:03 am

If you’ve ever played Virtua Fighter, you’ll understand why the D-pad just doesn’t measure up. Some of the motions you have to make (forward to back-and-up) absolutely kill the thumb on a D-pad, especially the PS2/3′s.

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ALH on January 1, 2009 at 10:04 am

Am i the only geek who places their controller on their lap and uses it like a mini arcade stick? Granted im more towards the button masher side of play than an expert combo puller offerer ;_;

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eM on January 1, 2009 at 1:00 pm

@Henry/GOJIGUY

The MadCatz SF4 sticks are superb. Just because a company generally churns out crap doesn’t mean that they can’t also put out a fantastic product. http://sdtekken.com/tech-area/arcade-sticks/arcade-stick-ranking/

The X-Arcade sticks do not use Happ parts. They use cheap knock-offs (and knock-offs of low-end Happ parts at that!). If you want to turn the X-Arcade into a decent stick, you have to replace the stick and the buttons — but you could do that just as well on a $50 Hori Tekken 5 stick or a $100 Hori HRAP stick (which is much better OotB than the X-Arcade) or your own custom stick.

The X-Arcade’s only real benefit is that the company provides adaptors for multiple consoles. But you could do the same with any stick with a PS1/PS2 PCB — there are cheap adapters for the PC, Dreamcast, PS3, GameCube/Wii, and XBox 1. The X-Arcade doesn’t support the XBox 360.

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Henry on January 1, 2009 at 11:23 pm

@EM

Thanks for correcting me, I feel so silly.

But yea. Madcatz finally made a really good arcade controller guys. BUY IT NAO.

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jgoreham on January 2, 2009 at 8:58 am

If I use arcade-like control, I need to stand up, like at the arcade :/

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jgoreham on January 2, 2009 at 8:59 am

If I use arcade-like control, I need to stand up, like at the arcade :/

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Dan Silva on January 2, 2009 at 3:40 pm

I like my SNES controller better, but I also have a Super Advantage which to me is just like an Arcade set up.

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shadow1w2 on January 2, 2009 at 11:46 pm

Saturn Pad all the way!
The old Sidewinder for the PC was about the same plus an extra mode/option/select key.

Three face buttons just work well with fighters.
Also arcade sticks give you up to three easy to press buttons for three fingers with an easy bit of room to reach for the top ones.
Though I’ve always had to re-adjust the way I did moves with the control stick while a good eight way d-pad tens to be alot easier. Say like the Saturn’s d-pad.

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Ken on January 3, 2009 at 12:56 am

The second revision of the Sega Saturn pad was absolute perfection.

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XCALIBR8 on January 3, 2009 at 3:19 am

I usually prefer a gamepad out of sheer convenience but if I’m in the right mood I’ll use the arcade controls. After all these years being able to play Street Fighter 2 is one of my main concerns when I consider buying a gamepad or joystick for any system. It’s amazing how well the series has held up all these years.

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jenya on January 26, 2009 at 6:01 pm

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