I had a soft pad similar to this - take care that the pad is able to register arbitrary combinations of left/right/up/down simultaneously. Mine was not, so I en

I had a soft pad similar to this - take care that the pad is able to register arbitrary combinations of left/right/up/down simultaneously. Mine was not, so I ended up using it rotated 45˚ with the auxiliary buttons remapped, which avoided the problem. It would be a shame to do all this work and not notice the issue until you start playing with jumps!