SaitoH said:
Bah, nothing on that list worth looking at. (waits for real fighting games)
The drunk threads are in the OT.
Personally, I no longer want to use the same stick for three different games, because a big hangup of mine is having only the exact number of buttons needed for the game, and no more, arranged to the arcade spec and properly labled if possible. But that's me.
I haven't used that Pro Arcade, but being that it is a Hori I trust that it is quite good. I never want to own an eight button stick again, but that idea isn't for everyone. Provided that it is made to the same spec as the SC2 Hori's, then I'd trust it with my game, but it wouldn't be my first choice.
Let's talk about those SC2 Horis for a sec. I think they're cheaper, I know they're pretty good, and they only have six buttons. I'd choose this stick over the Pro on the button number alone. A bonus is that they come configured for SC2 and you won't have to change your controls for that game.
The XBOX is trickier, because I've not seen a Hori or something as good made for it, but then again I haven't looked real hard. The issue here is that I don't trust adaptors for other format controllers very far anymore, and I know that the issue can be made worse by XBOX Live - that's
can be, and you really need to have a clean controller to hit your parries in SF3rd reliably. I still think that most CVS2 players on SRK use custom built sticks.
Honestly, I don't have a XBOX solution that is good enough for me right now. I'm sure most people will adapt a Hori or Namco and think nothing of it, and I cannot claim definitively that they are wrong, just that I don't trust that method. There are some other XBOX arcade sticks in the stores, but all I've seen is crap. Some people are going to use Red Octane sticks with Happ parts thrown in, but RO seems to have suddenly changed what they offered and it's back to adaptation.
Myself, I had hoped to use my stupidly expensive MAS stick that I had made specifically for Street Fighter games, but while its DC and PS2 performance are above reproach the special adaptor they provide for the XBOX is flakey for some people and we're back to adaptation again. So I can't even recommend my best stick for XBOX use without warnings.
Basically, I'm going to use my MAS when SF3rd comes out and find an XBOX solution before the end of the year. I might mod my MAS to run on hacked PCBs and get XBOX support that way, or I might just build a whole new rig. Maybe I'll get lazy and just have MAS send me another adaptor, hoping that this one performs better, but I doubt it. For SC2 I'll continue to use my SC stick from RO that I modded.
So basically what I'm saying is that the Hori's and Namco's will be good little performers for the PS2 games, but I highly reccomend finding an XBOX solution off the main retail path, unless it doesn't keep you up at night that you're parrying could be faster - in which case you just adapt.
