> Just had to RMA a Mad Catz Street Fighter IV fightpad because it arrived from Amazon
> with something broken off and rattling around inside like your grandma's Thanksgiving
> Day gourd from the 1950s. My sister bought the exact same one at the same time (the
> Street Fighter IV Bundle for PC which includes the game & the fightpad) and hers
> didn't work either. My question is this: is there a reasonable (and reasonably
> priced, say $50-$75 USD) alternative? Prefer the gamepad to a stick, and I definitely
> want something with the same form factor as the Mad Catz (which in turn is borrowed
> from the Sega 16-bit/32-bit controllers) with a high quality d-pad & six buttons on
> the front, and USB. Or am I just a dreamer in an ivory tower here to want so much for
> so little?
>
> Yeah, I know I can buy one of those cheap Chinese Sega-clone 6-button knock-offs for
> like $15 bucks but I would prefer that it last longer than a bag of Doritos and can
> survive a drop from a height of 12" onto a carpeted floor. Or maybe I should just
> keep RMAing the fightpad until I get a good one? I don't know. I'll be using it for
> all my emulation needs that don't require analog sticks by the way. My wonderful Xbox
> 360 Controller just doesn't cut it for arcade type games because that damn D-pad
> makes my poor thumb feel like it's been goosing one of the Stone Men from Game Of
> Thrones for hours after only a few minutes. I want something...floaty. What do y'all
> use here?
No kidding. I prefer that thing to a PS1/2-styled D-pad.
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