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I bought a new gamepad today.
soul3150 | 6:04 AM on 10.25.2007 10 comments


I have a fuck-tonne of arcade roms, mostly fighters, including:

Killer Instincts 1&2 (they are not bad games dammit)
Time Killers
Blood Storm
Every SNK fighter- except the new KoFs that aren't emulated.
All the Street Fighters- Why does everyone hate on the EX series, they are great.
Red Earth
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
Primal Rage
All the Mortal Kombats up to 4
Tattoo Assassins (abysmal)
Survival Arts (worse than Tattoo Assassins)

and the list goes on.

Trouble is I had been using a 5 year old pc gamepad that was well and truly past it's used by date. The d-pad was coming loose and would pop out on its own, mid fucking fight. The down button, the little plastic depressor bit beneath the d-pad, had come off and I had to gingerly rest it back in there making any hadou like motions or ducking, a gamble. It was also held together with tape and smelled of my cats urine which was an annoying and apparently unfixable problem.

So today was payday and the government of Australia gave my studious self the fortnightly pittance that it does so I thought about remedying this situation. I wandered into my local EB and a friend of mine was working there, he sold me a fifty dollar logitec dual action, basically a PS2 controller, for 25 Earth money. Neat.

It's great, works a treat, even to the point of knowing what I want to do even after I've had a few and my motor skills degrade.

Anyone know some decent games that this would make good use of?



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007's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/25/2007 06:20
007
COD4?
Ianidas's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/25/2007 06:27
Ianidas
frets on fire?
soul3150's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/25/2007 07:01
soul3150
I'd like COD4 007 but my PC ain't exactly the high end model. At least not THAT high end.
Remz's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/25/2007 07:31
Remz
Frets on fire witha gamepad is retarded.
whiteboy0869's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/25/2007 07:48
whiteboy0869
Yea, get an adapter for your Ps2 or Nintendo controllers like DanGale says. I use my 360 controller for and newer games and my PS3 controller for roms and shit. They serve me well, especially when playing some fucking EARTBOUND
Kryptinite's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/25/2007 08:48
Kryptinite
I can't say it enough: Killer Instinct is fucking awesome.
soul3150's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/25/2007 09:30
soul3150
Thank you Kryptinite, that's what I think.

Dan, the d-pad is fine, I just ran the gauntlet with my games and if I can nail a Spinning Pile Driver from a standing start, the d-pad gets my tick of approval.
king3vbo's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/25/2007 10:17
king3vbo
Meedely meedely meedely meedely meedely meedely meedely meedely meeeeeee!!!
The Johnggernaut's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/29/2007 06:18
The Johnggernaut
I have yet to find a pad that rivals the 360 controller. It's been a while since I fucked with my old roms, though, I might have to bust them back out. I spent about a month, off and on, finding every rom I ever wanted and compiling them on a DVD. I, umm, of course owned all these games at some point in time (or borrowed or rented them, *ahem*)...
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