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I too am a Saturn convert. I've never had a dpad feel so good since... also so many dpads are just straight not made well. Looking at you steam deck, why is up-left so hard for you?!
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saturn is best, i dream of a hybrid saturn/dualshock2 controller
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More like ketchup vs actual pizza sauce made from actual tomatoes, pepeprs, basil and garlic. But yeah I persoanlly prefer my bottle of Heinz ketchup, that I was sucking on since I was a toddler. Heinz design was a revolution in the fast food world, especially for bunchuping (practise of eating burger buns with only ketchup). Most people don't need anything that tastes any good, the red goo is good enough as long as it's loaded with sugar. Actual sauce is only good for gourme tournaments and people with professional palates, but even amongst them there exist those who prefer ketchup, since over long years of practice they conditioned their saliva to decompose ketchup into atomic particles then quickly recompose it into their favorite sauce before it hits their tastebuds, and that process makes actual sauce taste slightly off when they try it.
I feel that arcade stick is superior for any 2d game: A good lever is far more precise than any d-pad, you have faster access to all buttons and you can press and hold any of them simultaneously.
You can also play for hours without getting tired, especially in action intensive games such as shmups, platformers and obviously fighting games. Playing Under Night (Yuzuriha) on pad nearly destroyed my hands.
You know why they aren't making microswitched pads: it's hard, expensive and few people care; SNK managed to pull it off once because they were once a company with an extremely high standard of quality; they were fighting game devs and most of AES library was fighters, they understood well how important it was to have good, precise controllers for their exclusive home releases.
Too bad that 8bitdo is a far cry from 90s SNK and released a pale, barely functional imitation of the Neo Geo CD pad while claiming it was 100% accurate. I think these guys are no better than any other third-party modern controllers manufacturer, they made the SN30, which was lightning in a bootle, but all their other releases are quite mediocre
You can also play for hours without getting tired, especially in action intensive games such as shmups, platformers and obviously fighting games. Playing Under Night (Yuzuriha) on pad nearly destroyed my hands.
the advent of 3d gaming slowly but surely killed good d-pad design in modern pads, they can't be bothered to make something good if modern mainstream games barely use it, and never require any precise input with it. The Dualsense is a downgrade from the dualshock 3 and just look how shit the Switch's pro controller is.
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Yeah, that trustmaster thing seems like snake oil to me.
You know why they aren't making microswitched pads: it's hard, expensive and few people care; SNK managed to pull it off once because they were once a company with an extremely high standard of quality; they were fighting game devs and most of AES library was fighters, they understood well how important it was to have good, precise controllers for their exclusive home releases.
Too bad that 8bitdo is a far cry from 90s SNK and released a pale, barely functional imitation of the Neo Geo CD pad while claiming it was 100% accurate. I think these guys are no better than any other third-party modern controllers manufacturer, they made the SN30, which was lightning in a bootle, but all their other releases are quite mediocre
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uh, wonder why he got nuked
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oh nooo, what's wrong with em? I almost ordered one the other day, will have to do more research...
The throw on the pad is way too long, so to hit the gate/switch you need to tilt it much further than the original
I know what you mean, that beast would be the perfect emulation controller, you would be able to map even the weird N64 layout almost perfectly.
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Ah well, that's a shame, but maybe it'll still be better than a dpad for an absolute noobster like me. I'm also not averse to modding it.
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Reading up on 8bitdo I stumbled upon another example of clicky stick on a pad.
PDP Versus Fighting Pad
No teardown photos, but from what I'm reading it's a different construction and might be using mouse button style switches? Intriguing!
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Typing this on a mechanical keyboard right now - there is a massive difference in switched vs padded keys
Now apply this logic to controllers, since mechanical switches are relatively cheap these days - I don't wanna pay $150+ for the newest razer controller which I feel like it appeals to the cod bros and less to the functional user
Now apply this logic to controllers, since mechanical switches are relatively cheap these days - I don't wanna pay $150+ for the newest razer controller which I feel like it appeals to the cod bros and less to the functional user
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