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I'm not entirely sure it's been designed with games like that in mind. I imagine the expectation is you use another pad (e.g Xbox controller) for a game like St

I'm not entirely sure it's been designed with games like that in mind. I imagine the expectation is you use another pad (e.g Xbox controller) for a game like Street Fighter - or in that case, ideally an arcade stick.

slantyyz 13y ago
Note that there are also six button fighting pads that should be compatible with the Steam Machines too. The one in particular that I find most interesting is the one for the upcoming Hyperkin RetroN5 -- it's a six button bluetooth controller with a microswitch based thumbpad (much like the ones that came with Neo Geo home units from the 90s). http://hyperkin.com/blog/2013/03/retron-5-details-revealed-from-the-midwest-gaming-classic/ http://hyperkin.com/blog/2013/03/retron-5-details-revealed-f...
shmoogin 13y ago
That is not true, it's designed for you to be able to modify the controls.
- slantyyz 13y ago
  Just because you can modify the controls doesn't mean it's a good controller for all use cases. For example, it would be very difficult to do an ultra move in Street Fighter IV on one of these pads -- i.e., quarter-circle-forward x 2 (LP + MP + HP). A standard d-pad with tactile buttons is much more precise.
  - CatMtKing 13y ago
    How about mapping the triggers to LP/MP/HP and what you would normally have on the triggers to the right trackpad?
    - slantyyz 13y ago
      Might work for some people, but I'm personally used to using a fighting gamepad that has six face buttons in the standard 'Capcom' orientation. People who learned Capcom fighting games on normal pads are usually OK with triggers, but I learned on a stick, so using the triggers goes against my muscle memory as I still use a stick regularly as well. My fighting pad, however, is much more portable than my stick.