Arcade stick - advice needed

Dark_Angel

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Hey,

Basically I'm considering buying a stick for a few reasons.

First is I can't use one! I can do the basic motions, (like fireballs and DP) but am far from fluid like I am on the pad.

Second, I've heard that some things are not possible to do on pad (which, I am perfectly comfortable with).

Now I've always been a pad player, in tekken I was able to EWGF, Light Dash and all the good stuff with a PS pad, but now I'm considering trying out a stick.

I've a few options, the first is to buy a stick, second is to try and make my own, but - in reality, I'm not sure I want the "make a stick" project because I don't have much time, and I also don't even know if I'll use it a huge amount yet.

So I guess that leaves me with buying a stick. I've got a PS3 and 360, but will likely play my games on PS3 (SSF4 when it's released, as I've given up tekken) so I was considering buying the Street Fighter 4 arcade stick (the white one, I can't check the name as I'm at work, but it's the one down from the tournament stick.

Is this stick worth it, or better to buy the more expensive one, or better to just make my own, or is playing on pad fine? I can do everything fine, and I'm not planning to go to tournaments, just for fun, but wanted to learn to use a stick for myself more than anything.


Lastly, sorry for the length post! :p
 
If it's just sfiv you play then a pad can do everything.

Madcatz TE is £70-ish if you want it, the SE is not worth getting.
 
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Kreeeee said:
If it's just sfiv you play then a pad can do everything.

Madcatz TE is £70-ish if you want it, the SE is not worth getting.
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Really?

What about tweeking or whatever it's called. I'm new to SSf4, so I'm retarded partially on the names, but basically it's where you buffer inputs - so far example you get 2 chances to input a command.

I think it's like medium punch then a split second later press light (for example).

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Hmmm, cheapest I've found the TE so far is about 85 + O.o
 
Tweaking?

Negative edge gives you 2 chances, plinking/double tapping gives you more but there are so few 1 frame links in SFIV you never need to use those techniques.

Plinking is easy on a pad, most pad users use their fingers to press the buttons, especially on the madcatz fightpads.
 
Kreeeee said:
Tweaking?

Negative edge gives you 2 chances, plinking/double tapping gives you more but there are so few 1 frame links in SFIV you never need to use those techniques.

Plinking is easy on a pad, most pad users use their fingers to press the buttons, especially on the madcatz fightpads.
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Ah that's it, plinking! :p I knew it had a "ing" in it. :p

Anyways, I'm a thumb man myself - though I'm considering the madcatz pad as an alternative.

Bloody hell, I miss the old saturn pads for fighting games. Xmen Cota, ALpha series and co were amazing on it.
 
The SE has cheap parts that wear out rather quickly, where as the TE has much better quality parts. I bought a used SE stick and it only lasted like a month so now I've got to replace the parts, but it's not a problem since I was going to do it anyway.
 
Just a quick question, not looking to hijack :p

The 360 arcade sticks, would they work fine plugged into the PC. As I'd love to use one with my new emulator front end.
 
Get an SE stick, use it until it fails and then upgrade to Sanwa components.

I've had my SE since the 2nd production run last year (~12 months now I think), and have clocked 50+ hours on SFIV, plus playtime on MvC2 and SF2THDR and it's still working fine.... I am looking to upgrade the internals soon though as the stick/buttons do feel a little vague now.
 
It costs about the same, it's just down to whether you want a bigger or smaller arcade stick and whether you can be bothered to swap out the parts.
 
Dark_Angel said:
O.o really?

I didn't know they even did PC sega saturn pads... not looked in to this stuff for a while, been out of the fighting game loop if you will!
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You can get them cheap from ebay although 90% of the time they may be Chinese knock-offs.

Works perfectly on the PC and PS3 and the only annoying thing is remapping the buttons to the right moves as they tend to be all over the place.
 
Is it worth grabbing the SF4 tournament stick, or better to wait? I've been doing googling (always dangerous) and apparently, a sequel stick for SSF4 is being unleashed?
 
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