> 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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