Which controller has the best d-pad?
(any generation, excluding handhelds)
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Which controller has the best d-pad?
(any generation, excluding handhelds)
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Gamecube
Not this mushy piece of shit
not this tiny uncomfortable piece of shit
NES is OK, SNES is a piece of shit
Really it is the Saturn JP/model 2 pad that is supreme. PlayStation D-Pads are also generally great.
The SNES D-pad is perfection, you Sega gay.
Agreed, hyuck hyuck
What game dude?
Beyond Oasis
literally the worst, stiffest, most vestigial dpad in existence. ruined the potential of the gameboy player
NES/SNES
tested tons of them.
1.DS original
2.Vita
3. SNES
4. HORIPAD xbox one. ps4
5. I buffalo snes pad
what horipad specifically
probably talkin bout the FIGHTAN KOMMANDAR
>tested tons
>doesn't have saturn as number 1
Fricking have a nice day seriously
Wii U and Series X ironically.
Vita slim Dpad is shit.
The Vita Slim d-pad is identical to the original and it's still great.
>Ds original
Kys.
As a guy who actually had a NES, Genesis, SNES when growing up its definitely Xbox Series controllers. People hype up the saturn and I recently got one and it's mushy bullshit. If they made a saturn dpad with the crispness of the xbox it would win.
Never tried HORI fight pads but they may be good.
My man. Xbox d-pad is so far beyond the competitors it isnt funny. Only device that I can make super metroid wall jumps more precisely then with the original snes pad. Better get those headphones with active noise cancelation though because those things are louder the cherry blues
>those things are louder the cherry blues
kinda love this about it because i can hear the input. helps that the wife got used to it
I played a lot of 2D games with the first Xbox One controller and never had many problems. Ironically I bought an 8bitdo SN30 Pro because they said the dpad was "perfect" and I wanted something better than the Xbox and ended up trading something functional for a garbage almost impossible to use.
Pressing the dpad until it clicks doesn't activate the button, and pressing it all the way down makes it click rapidly because those metal dome clickers are garbage. There's a reason every God dpad in history has membrane buttons, and there's 70000 postings on eBay for replacement Xbox dpad domes that don't actually fix the problem.
I tried using that fricking thing until it got me killed in Luna Nights because while the clicking helps a lot it will still press adjacent directions without actually pressing on that side of the d-pad like the 360, the hell are you people talking about
Xbone or SexBox?
SNES or PS3. Fricking Xbox still hasn't gotten one good one in all this time, and I wish they would get their shit together because that's the only controller I use on pc.
>buy a xbone controller out of the blue
>its the 20th anniversary one
>feels nice
>try playing anything that requires the Dpad
>get double inputs
I just want to be able to play tetris connected without frickery
I like the dpad of the Series X, i use it to play Project DIva
Saturn - no contest.
The best one after that is on the HORI pads, followed by ibuffalo.
1- DualSense
2- DS4
3- SNES
I like the SNES one personally, though I play all my games on analog sticks now anyways unless it's menuing.
The best dpad I found on a cheap controller was from HORI Pokkén Pro Pad. As far as I know, is the same dpad of the simplest model of the Hori Fighting Commander that is highly praised by those who play fighting games. The difference in quality compared to the dpad of the garbage from 8bitdo is absurd. The Hori Fighting Commander Octa has a dpad that is apparently even better, with even a programming function in software for you to determine things like diagonal sensitivity.
Here the Octa model, the dpad is not cross-shaped like the original Pokkén or Fighting Commander. But this controller is no longer low-budget. I paid about $15 on my HORI Pokkén and it is still good even with over two years of use.
that d-pad design gives me Xbox 360 vibes
this is super mushy and feels awful, cannot comprehend why anyone praises it.
People praise it because it gets results. My performance in various games improved considerably after I replaced my shitty Sn30Pro with a HORI Pokkén.
I have seen some Mario speedrunners recommending this controller as well, like the guy in SMB3 who makes several world records. He used Pokkén Pro to play Mario Maker or whatever on the Switch.
>Hori
They're good while they last, it's a crapshoot whether they'll shit out on you in two months
That's a real problem, I think Hori's best controllers are the niche ones. I have pic related which is their version of the Nintendo Switch Pro Controller and it has not lasted long, the analog stick is horrible with no precision and considerable dead zone. It's simply a bad product that I don't recommend.
But the simpler controllers are much better. I played 500 hours just Mario Maker 2 in my Hori Pokkén and even today is the controller I use when I need a good dpad.
Arrows on a keyboard, not a single controller has beaten this.
Funny enough it's this lil homie. A ps1 clear yobo. I have a few in stock because nothing else feels nearly as good.
Playstation 2, 3, and to a lesser extent the PSP.
>waaaah its not a solid cross so it sucks
All the cardinal directions are accurate. All the diagonals are accurate. It doesn't replicate the function of a cheese grater whenever you try to roll through one direction into another. It therefore has full and equal functionality to the Nintendo thumb annihilators and then further functionality beyond that while simultaneously being more comfortable making it objectively superior.
>what about xbrick
I don't think any sane human being could claim their dpads are anything short of pure squidgy dogshit, not even in jest. Truly awful and useless.
>floaty disc dpads
I think I'm actually going to vomit. Frick you.
homie you don't know so shut the frick up. It's the best d pad for fighting games ever.
>accidentally mess up the finger position a little
>the godforsaken circle pad captures 4 different inputs when I just wanted to press down and ruins my macro
Not him but, no thanks.
This homosexual here liked it:
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That wasn't the yobo was yo. The yobo out of nowhere was a beast and had excellent longevity
Well I'm positive it's not the xbone controller. Clicky dpad instead of membrane and 75% of them are flaky after a month
I hate how shit D-Pads are now. They are all mushy and have no click/feedback to them.
N64
I feel like I'm the only person who likes the D-Pad from the 3DS/Wii/Wii U era of Nintendo.
the original 3ds has a perfect dpad
the only problem is the placement being kinda cramped but its surprisingly ok
>Old 3DS with about 9 years
>since a few years ago, pressing the dpad a bit too hard causes the SD card to disconnect
SNES Controller and controller for EVERYTHING below 4 face buttons, 2 shoulders and no sticks (Godsend for GBA).
Wii classic controller Model 1 for everything else
>Wii classic controller Model 1
Why that over the pro?
Analogue Shoulders
did a single game even use those?
homie clean that fricking wii classic controller
my faves from best to just good:
-WiiU Gamepad
-NES
-new3ds
-Xbox Series
-SNES
-Xbox One
that's it
Xbox controller for modern games, DualShock for retro games that are focused on dpad. Ultimately use what feels more comfortable to the game you are playing.
I like the clicky kind. Xbox Series, Nintendo DS/SP, Joycon
the vita, no joke
doesn't matter but we all know that sony has never made a good d-pad that wasn't chained to a dead handheld
any dpad where you cant push in all directions at once is decent at least, any dpad where you can is terrible
Gameboy Advance SP. Has some extreme longevity and feels really crisp.
>but that's a handheld not a controller anon
There's an OEM GBA to GC controller adapter that lets you use it as a controller so it actually is a controller as well.
Done that while trying to get a fast 100% clear in Metroid Fusion, it's pretty good. Though I do prefer the ergonomics of the original GBA.
PS-Vita
speaking of d-pads is it possible to switch the normal d-pad from the switch lite to something more robust like the PSP's d-pad?
trying to play alpha 1 & III is a real killer on the system
The psps d pad was fricking shit like all the playstation ones are you literally moronic?
you couldnt be more wrong even if you cut your dick off and became a woman you fricking moronic homosexual
The Nintendo 64 Controller rand its not even close.
>almost no games use it
typical monkey paw shit
Why aren't there any controllers that feel like the vita dpad? They're just metal dome contacts aren't they? Having a definite click on every direction press feels so fricking good.
Do the PS controllers make anyone else's thumbs hurt? I play a lot of hardcore platformers and they work great inputwise but after an hour or two of playing my thumb hurts like a motherfricker, much more than with any other dpad. I think the shape of the edge just claws into my thumb.
Ps4 and ps5 analogs are great now compared to ps3. Ps5 dpad is better now since they brought them closer together, but its still shit since they made it to where they are all sperated by the plastic case like the face buttons.
What makes a good d-pad is when they are sessentially one button like the vita and saturn. Other dpads like on nintendo consoles are close in this respect but another factor is the diagonal inputs that the vita and saturn dpads designs achieve. Nintendos are close, but no cigar in my tastes, only a small step up compared to ps controllers.
You posted the pictureof it there.
>NES had sharper edges and was smaller
>N64 was on the part of the controller no one touched
>later consoles only ever had it small and secondary to a joystick
>handhelds are also small
SNES had the best one.
NES and SNES d-pads feel nothing alike to me
Last revision Alps DualShock 2 that shipped with 90k consoles
There's more than a dozen variations of the DS2 from three different manufacturers but this one's the best. On the contrary the early M variant has one of the worst dpads ever made, stiff as frick.
The SNES Dpad is overrated, it's too small for fighting games. All Dpads should undergo the fighting game test to see if it can do stuff consistently as well as comfort.
I like the clickiness of the Xbox One controller, but it seems to wear out after a couple years and then the clicking and input registering won't match anymore.
Does the new Series controller also have a clicky d-pad?
>the clicking and input registering won't match anymore
my xbone controller's dpad has always done the click at a lower pressure than the input and it's infuriating
Little recording of my Xbox Series X/S Controller
https://streamable.com/ra65f3
honestly, so far for me it's the DS4/dualsense, really good feel, not too hard or clicky, not too mushy either, I'd say the Dsi and 3DS are great but those are handhelds. I haven't tried saturn.
M30 from 8bitdo is my favorite by far for 2D platformers. For other genres, I prefer analog or a fightstick.
Xbox SeX controller. I know my shit.
For fightan: is a separated d-pad more accurate and better than a conventional d-pad that's one chunk of plastic?
The one you posted. Only D-pad I could do SF2 Ken/Ryu moves on consistently.
Pic was second because of how easy it was to get those angles on.
People talk shit about the master system's dpad but I always found it to be accurate. Now Xbox 360 gamepad, that's the worst, most inaccurate piece of trash I have ever seen
i'm in the saturn and vita camp
SIDE WIRE
doesnt get more precise than this
WSAD + Numpad 1235 can be rather a comfortable way to play 2D platformers
hard for me to do circular motions on a keyboard
Bro, frick that, use 4826
Vita pad
The GOAT
I pity the one who has not experienced heaven at his fingertips
I had one and it stopped working. Broke my heart.
this. it clicks so nicely. extremely high fidelity good for twitchy games
PS Vita
I tend to go with Hori products. I put over a thousand hours into Bleach DS on OG DS dpad and hundreds into TvC on wii pro dpad so those were solid. I play Viper in sf4 and only the Hori products work for me. DS4 is okay in general.
I honestly can't quantify what makes a good or a bad dpad. I just touch a dpad and I either like it or I don't but I don't get why.
I gotta say though I bought a 3 button sega controller a few weeks ago and its dpad has a ball bearing pivot and it feels like sex, that's definitely a favtor that makes a dpad feel good.
Original Megadrive controller. The housing for the d-pad is made of brass. And no, the new copies don't have that. Get an old one with an adaptor.