While visiting with Capcom today, we had the chance to play a little Street Fighter IV on the Xbox 360 with Mad Catz line of new controllers for the game that we showed you earlier today. Capcom's Seth Killian was nice enough to crack one open for us to see the crazy amount of work, detail, and craftsmanship that went into it.

Before we get to that, I have to say that I love the FightPad. D-pad whores that loved the Sega Saturn controller and its feel and configuration will love this controller. For the legions of fighting game players that hate the standard Xbox 360 controller's d-pad, this FightPad is your new jam. Aside from the sexy d-pad, the face buttons are flat and easy to hit, and the side buttons nice and clicky. This one is a winner.

The real highlight Tournament Edition Street Fighter IV FightStick. As Brad told us earlier today, this baby uses the same parts used in the actual Street Fighter IV Japanese cabinet. The buttons, stick, and everything in it are the best parts available. These things are beautiful, folks. The recessed and locking button features (to protect from crazy button mashing action) are just icing on the cake. 

Seth showed us the bottom of these units, which has removable rubber feet, revealing holes that would let you mount them to a surface. He says he actually has holes in his coffee table just for that purpose. 

I'm so doing that now.

Legacy Comments (will be imported soon)

Stella Wong

BEAUTIFUL :O

atastysammich

I want to make sweet, sweet love to the FightPad.

Vitamin Awesome

wow. I was so worried that Mad Catz was going to mess this up somehow. between a pair of these and that Touchscreen eee pc that was also shown at CES, my tax returns are spoken for.

covah

Finally got some insight on the fight pad, I'm buying now.

KamikazeTutor

Cracked open? What? It broke already?

bart999

I want to make sweet sweet violence on some bitches with that.

Genfuyung

Had my tournament edition fightstick reserved day 1. Can't fucking wait.

MarkMan

I'm glad you guys like the sticks.

My team worked very hard on them. ;)

Cynical Gamer

the fight pads still look too bulky for my tastes.

thebto

Man, now I don't know what to do. I was set on getting the Hori Real Arcade Pro EX, but after seeing this video, how you're able to swap out buttons, joystick and panel... I will have to seriously read up on them a lot more before buying either.

grafkhun

hot damn, that is one beastly lap fightpad controller. As much as I love SF, I just don't have the money to buy SF4. If I do, I need to buy this then, and I don't want to buy one controller just for one game.

Paul S

Damn, they took some notes. Anyone who's ever been to a tournament knows how serious competitors are when it comes to personal arcade sticks. I put up a gallery of custom jobs on my D-Toid blog a while back after Seasons Beatings III.

Plenty of guys have spent top-dollar on hand-made custom sticks. Most use a cannibalized board from a PSX pad as a base and work from there. But this man, a stick built for customization right out of the box, tools free no less, speaks volumes for Mad Catz.

Now then, what are the springs like?

Genfuyung

Keep in mind that all these controllers would be great for all the games (including fighting games) on xbla, backwards compatible fighting games, KOF XII, and Tekken 6 and if there is an justice in the world then Blazblue will come to the 360 as well.

Coldbrand

YES! I CAN CHANGE THE ART! SOLD!

Shin Oni

and i'll be LOLing at all the idiots who past up on this cause "it's made by madcatz"

Shin Oni

ohshit when did Markman start lurking here?

Coldbrand

Idiots? Madcatz has a fucking universally AWFUL track record. The only reason this is ANY good is because it's being made by someone else basically.

GuitarAtomik

Thanks for mentioning the hands on for the fight pad. Everyone only ever mentions the sticks but it's the pad I'm interested in.

Shin Oni

@Coldbrand

which is why this is guranteed to be good. otherwise we'd all skip it and continue on with our HRAPs.

Conan-san

Tell me the non tourney one can change the art and we're golden.

calpis

@markman Thanks for making a beautiful stick and bringing back the saturn pads. Seeing all the care you and your team put into the controllers makes me tear up.

jediyoshi

Badass, I must admit.

Grimspoon

I'm all for Hori (and custom) sticks, but Mad Catz did a surprisingly excellent job with this stick, all the little touches go a long way!

Too Much Coffee Man

I don't know. It's really hard for me to get past the fact that it's Mad Catz.

I'm still peeved about a game shark for PS2 i bought (after Mad Catz bought Interact) that said i could download codes & put it on a USB stick instead of typing them in; but it was an old version in the box which didn't support that. Sent them about 10 emails which they ignored before i finally gave up. :\

Hitogoroshi

"Japanese parts"

Would that be Sanwa or Seimitsu?

welkstar

I really want one of the pads. I'm kind of cautious to buy a pre-made fight stick. It does look like it is made of quality parts though. Are they Sanwa parts? I assume so if it's the same hardware that's in the cab.

ShuperShawn

Does anyone know what the difference is between the regular fight stick and the tournament edition are? I'm really curious because there is a huge price jump between the two.

Too Much Coffee Man

@ShuperShawn

regular edition is smaller. regular edition doesnt have genuine arcade buttons and stick.

tourn edition is an exact replica of the arcade cabinet stick. hence why it costs 3x as much

Megamania

Hey Mark Man - Give credit where credit is due. Both fighting sticks were created using Seth Killian's design and blueprints. I give MadKats props for not effing it up.

ShuperShawn

@too much coffee, thanks for the help. So is it worth getting the tournament edition over the regular one?

Shin Oni

@Super Shawn

if you have the money for it and want a easy to mod right out the box stick, Tournament edition is the way.

the regular one i'm sure will still be good. Just don't expect it to be the same quality as Tournament Edition.

ShuperShawn

@shin oni, thanks, I think I will pony up for the tourny edition just for the easy cutomization.

AgentMOO

That's excellent design - surprised to see this quality from MadCatz

smang

man i want that tourney stick so bad. i hear they're pretty limited though, something like 3000 in the states and 2000 in the uk (maybe europe) so i'd expect prices to rise.

for anyone who's serious about their sticks, I'd recommend looking here: www.arcadeinabox.com/ you can get ones that work on ps3, 360 and pc, upload custom artwork and get the parts used in this sf4 tourney stick.

pretty expensive though.

salmabaldy

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