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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Underrated comment. I used to hate that game so much that any time my siblings asked me to play it, I just picked Hom and shut myself down mid-match.
15 years went by so fast. I remember playing through the story mode at launch.
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Sounds good.Fighters are still a big deal and a good D-Pad is key
Why hasnt MS just widened the space themselves already?
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.
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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.