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Neocrisis: Simple 360 D-Pad Mod: Opening the Controller NOT Needed

Neocrisis: Well, thanks to losing an important match where I almost beat this really good Zangief player (he had 25 wins in a row! Not on me though...) but ended up losing thanks to the d-pad register my down press as left, I was finally fed up. I came up with an extremely simple fix that mixes two d-pad mod techniques and gives you much better, precise controls in Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo HD and other XBLA games. Granted, the d-pad won't be perfect after this, but it'll feel more responsive.

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TheColbertinator6044d ago

Sounds good.Fighters are still a big deal and a good D-Pad is key

Arsenic136044d ago

Why hasnt MS just widened the space themselves already?

v1c1ous6044d ago

have the rights to a good d-pad.

i think MS should just take the hit and let another company manufacture the d-pad for them

Bnet3436044d ago

The Xbox 1 DPAD was excellent. I don't know how the screwed up now.

kwicksandz6044d ago

Nintendo has the rights to the best dpad. Sonys has flaws of its own and the 360s is downright horrible!

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thor6044d ago

The trouble with it is is that generally, you don't WANT the d-pad to function like an analogue control. I remember an article about how they'd "fixed" the problem by creating a limited edition controller or something with 32 possible directions rather than 16. That is not the problem.

In most games, the directions on the d-pad are assigned to different things entirely, as though they are buttons. On the PS3 d-pad, if you press up, you've pressed up and there's no ambiguity. The 360 controller's d-pad reminds me of a shoddy 3rd party PS1 controller I once bought - it doesn't work because the up/down/left/right should be seperated as _buttons_. Needless to say I've not bought a 3rd party controller since.

Even in fighting games, because of the combos you need to perform, you want to press a specific direction with no ambiguity. The exact problem, as is described here, is that it might recognise your "down" press as a down-left or even a left because the down and left buttons are not seperated.

jack who6044d ago

http://kotaku.com/5039756/3...

limited time, only be available in Europe, Asia and Latin America.

n to the b6044d ago (Edited 6044d ago )

right on, thor. wish the 360 controller had separate buttons for up, down, left & right. still greatly prefer the comfortable feel & heft of the 360 controller vs. PS, tho.

thor6044d ago

I know. I even mentioned that they did that. They were fixing the WRONG ISSUE!!! The issue is NOT that it doesn't register enough directions. Who on earth ever wanted their d-pad to register 32 directions! That's what the analogue stick is for! The d-pad is for DIGITAL INPUT. Hence, the up/down/left/right should be seperated so you CAN'T have it think you're pressing left when you meant to press down.

I thought that this was everybody's issue with it!

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FantasyStar6044d ago

http://www.instructables.co...

I applied this method to over 30 controllers from all 3 revisions and they all helped improve the 360 D-Pad by at least 70%. I recommend it.

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lukasmain1d 23h ago

I hope it's a remake of the 1st game. But it's probably just the PS5 version of Red Dead Redemption 2

OtterX1d 20h ago

I hope a PS5 upgrade launches on the same day as announcement & it costs no more than $10. I already bought the Ultimate Edition once, they got good money from me.

I stopped playing completely 2 years ago until they did 60fps. I really didn't expect it would take this long & I didn't want to start completely over on PC.

GamerRN10h ago(Edited 10h ago)

I've been waiting for 60 to finish the game myself

OtterX9h ago

hopefully we'll know by the end of tomorrow! *crosses fingers*

dmonee1d 8h ago

My wish is that its optimized for current gen machines, with some sort of story expansion. Undead nightmare 2! My 2nd wish is that it just shadow drops on the day of the announcement!.

Lionsguard1d 8h ago

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