Arcade Sticks.

Does anybody here use a arcade stick when it comes to fighting game? If you do, i have a question.

Does the arcade stick improve your performance?
Because i'm trying to pull off combos fast in MK9 and i feel that the controller does not cut it,i'm trying to do it fast like the A.I does in hard mode.

Is the arcade stick better then the controller?

pretty much depends on what you get used to, though i would say motions and such are easier on stick than pad.

Depends on what you prefer. There are plenty of strong players on pad, plenty of strong players on stick, plenty of strong players on hitboxes. While the ratio is lobsided towards sticks, still up to you. Reason for the lobsided-ness is that these are called "arcade sticks" for a reason, and many of these top players hang out in arcades, eh? Back in the day anyway.


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It depends on what you depend. If you depend, then it might depend on you depending.

Shoot... I already made a post similar to this :

https://www.fakku.net/viewtopic.php?t=55301

It's all a matter of preference though. I'd prefer stick for fighting games over pad because I grew up playing in the arcades over playing on the consoles, thus, it's more natural to play on stick than on pad.

There are a lot of good pad players out there though. Just takes some time and practice to play on pad in my opinion though.

I'd suggest trying out a stick for a week and see how you like it. If you feel like you can get used to a stick, keep using it, and if not, then stick to pad.

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I don't have arcade sticks. I tried using my flight simulator joystick. Failure.

Speaking of sticks. I lost the screws for mine... I'm a little sad. I thought I put them somewhere where I knew, but... Mer... I was planning to mod it, and found I bought the wrong item, so I put the screws in a bag and thought I left it in the stick... NOPE!! XD

Oh well, hopefully I find them, or I can buy replacement ones. Home Depot or something... ;-;

I've seen TE mods where people just used regular screws rather than the hex ones.. so yeah.

For most fighting games, yes. I don't know anything about MK, so it may not be the case for it. Generally, arcade sticks give you access to more buttons at once, 5 if you have all your fingers, while letting your other hand focus solely on movement. So it's easier to press multiple buttons at the same time and do certain techniques on a stick. A pad could theoretically match up to a stick's performance, but that would require an unstable or uncomfortable hand position.

IIRC, size 8 x 3 screw/allen screw. I could be wrong. I'll find out if I'm correct or not.

Hmm... I lost the ones for the board too. I lost all the screws and hex things... ;-;

Would be nice if you could tell me the size for both.

It's mostly about familiarity with what you're using. I rarely played arcade games so I'm horrible at stick. I play consoles more than arcades so I'm more familiar with that, but I play PC the most and keyboard is my best. I practice BBCS on PC before I play at my friend's house on stick.

Well I rarely use my I played MvC3 and won a match using the fightstick so yeah a fightstick is good if you planning on spending a lot of money on the most expensive one

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Depends, when it comes to games with high execution like MVC3 it is needed. Since in MVC3 the attacks don't come out until you finally push the desired button. Plus the fact that some stuff like the ROM infinite is far easier (to some extents) on a stick. As for MK, they are not needed since the game has dial-a-combos. You can execute combos as long as you press the right combination no matter what.

You played MK on expert yet? i did and the A.I pulls off all the characters combos in 1 go.I wonder if that is possible for a human?

Lolwut? MvC3 is high execution? Have you seen pad players playing MvC3? It's amazing. IGT is a well known pad player and he's pretty good.

Besides, SFIV is much more execution heavy, and Wolfkrone plays probably the most execution heavy character, C. Viper, in the game on pad.

What the hell is this about pressing buttons and attacks coming out or not? Of course it comes out. You press the button, something happens. Same with Pad or Stick.

You don't know squat about Arcade Sticks and Pad and execution.

It's all about preference.

oh man i gotta learn what game this is os i can do combos by staring the controller down


pad or stick, it doesnt really matter its just that theres typically more work when you are a pad player. there are high profile players in games [yes, even older ones like ST, MVC2 and CVS2] who play pad, they are just fewer in number

if anything, i think a lot of people play MK on pad because stick has a really awkward control config

Gotta have that MK stick for MK. XD

I do love the stick design. Really nice. The stick configuration of course isn't really meant for Japanese Fighters, but the design... Very nice.

The toys are even nicer.I made a unboxing video for it.Its in the MK thread.i really hate the sound of my voice on the video.