/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.10944403]

What's the best d-pad of all time?

[Anonymous No.10944427]

We had this debate already.
Consensus is Super Nintendo for cross shaped one, and Sega Saturn for circle shaped one.

[Anonymous No.10944438]

N64, the least used one

[Anonymous No.10944441]

the xbox series x's is very comfy

[Anonymous No.10944456]

Was going to say say SNES, it's proportionally perfect, but now that I think about it it has caused pain after long sessions. I think the plastic might be slightly harder than is ideal.

The original Game Boy's d-pad is probably the least irritating one I've used. I like the slightly concave shape and little grippy ridges, wish it carried over to future models.

[Anonymous No.10944503]

>>10944403

[Anonymous No.10944509]

>>10944441
Its horrible, stiff, clicky and shit for fighting games

[Anonymous No.10944523]

I liked the Xbox 360 D-pad
>b-but it was bad for diagonal inputs!
So fucking what? That's what the analog stick was for

[Anonymous No.10944530]

i dont have dpad autism
>nes
>snes
>genesis
>saturn
>playstation
these were all fine and i cant say i prefer one over the other. i really only notice dpads if they are bad.

[Anonymous No.10944532]

>>10944427
This.

It really comes down to preference, do you want a cross or a circle/disk? If you can pick that, then the choice within those categories doesn't really change much. Of course, you could argue for the PlayStation's unique style, or a modern take with the circle on XBOX, but mostly it's SNES/Saturn.

P.S. I love the 8BitDo M30's one, it's superb.

[Anonymous No.10944534]

best

[Anonymous No.10944660]

[Anonymous No.10944665]

>>10944441
amazing for menuing, shit for games with dpad movement.

[Anonymous No.10944685]

The snes has kind of not awesome diagonals in my experience. Maybe a fresh SNES pad is different

[Anonymous No.10944719]

the Power Glove d-pad is so bad (read as: good)

[Anonymous No.10944728]

>>10944660
/v/ tricked me into preordering this back in the day

[Anonymous No.10944890]

>>10944403

[Anonymous No.10945135]

>>10944685
retro nintendo dpads are really overrated, they only seem good in comparison to their new controllers
sega really made the only good dpads
im told vita dpad was aite tho

[Anonymous No.10945156]

>>10944403
PSP

[Anonymous No.10945291]

>>10944660
imagine getting this for christmas or visiting friends and having to pretend to like this

[Anonymous No.10945750]

>>10944890
>forces anyone playing games to choose between god awful ergonomics or using only the d-pad and mouse
>that, or the now unintuitive setup of having movement control be with the right hand and actions with the left
>"the best"

Arrow Keys are dead. WASD is king.

[Anonymous No.10945821]

>>10944403
The Nintendo 64's d-pad.

[Anonymous No.10945832]

>>10944403
>>10944890
Some original answers beyond the saturn pad

[Anonymous No.10945940]

>>10944403

[Anonymous No.10946402]

I liked the one on 360 controller.

felt little too big I guess

[Anonymous No.10946425]

>>10944403
Dualshock

[Anonymous No.10946464]

>>10944728
How do you even use it?

[Anonymous No.10946468]

>>10945940
Not a dpad.

[Anonymous No.10946482]

>>10944890
>>10945750
Playing a fighter with WASD blows peoples minds. But the fact is you can do quarter circles, Zs, full circles far faster with a Keyboard, it's cheating.

[Anonymous No.10947471]

>>10944403

[Anonymous No.10947523]

>>10946468
has 8 directions and fulfills the same function. much closer to a dpad than an analog stick. it's basically an evolved, more sophisticated dpad.

[Anonymous No.10947527]

idk but the dreamcast's is the worst

[Anonymous No.10947534]

>>10947471
CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK

[Anonymous No.10947535]

>>10946464
You furrow your brow REAAAAAALLLLLYYYYY hard and sometimes it registers it

[Anonymous No.10947540]

>>10947535
supposedly there were custom drivers made by the community that improved it but yeah it only barely measured surface muscles in your forehead, all their claims about reading brainwaves were pure bs

[Anonymous No.10949735]

>>10944403
ENTER.

[Anonymous No.10950048]

>>10944403
One thing I remember about playing LoZ is that you could only move in cardinal directions, no diagonals. If you hit a combination of two directions, it would take one direction, not both to move diagonally.
The reason this matters to me is that numerous other Dpads have cause an issue with movement because they were more prone to tilting, which would cause unwanted inputs, even if the tile wasn't the dominant direction you were pressing. In a game that allowed 8 directions, you would probably veer diagonally, but in LoZ it would read the other input and fuck you up, causing you to probably run into a Like Like.
The NES controller, never gave me any issue that I remember.

[Anonymous No.10950807]

>>10949735
>split
lol
lamo even

[Anonymous No.10950848]

>>10944403

[Anonymous No.10952330]

>>10950807
I get why many dislike it, but to me I can see the benefit of having individual buttons, and of that traditional system with a single piece, Sony just takes both and gives us the benefits of either, it seems benefitial to me, and the feels is superb.

[Anonymous No.10952342]

>>10952330
hes right tho
split d-pad is garbage for /vr/. your thumb will callous up within only a few days of hard play
t. been playing my old PS3 recently

[Anonymous No.10952363]

>>10952342
It's not split though, it's all one thing underneath the controller. If you press right on its D-pad, you can feel the left side tilt upward.

[Anonymous No.10952373]

>>10952363
same with the old ones iirc
same issue though: if youre doing a lot of circle type inputs it can be absolutely brutal
i was running through sotn on my PS3 the other day, playing richter. richter has a lot of command inputs for his specials. only a couple hrs and i could already "feel the burn"

i actually like the separate buttons for menuing in RPGs specifically, but for any action games it can be a real drag

[Anonymous No.10952376]

oh yea cant forget the GTA cheats
<V>^<V>^ x9000
used to have a callous on my thumb as a kid just from that alone

[Anonymous No.10952429]

>>10944523
Kill yourself

[Anonymous No.10952586]

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[Anonymous No.10953714]

>>10944403
The best is somewhere betwixt a Saturn and a Vita. So, an 8 way slightly bigger Vita star.

[Anonymous No.10953720]

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[Anonymous No.10953756]

>>10953720
>>10953714
why do idiots need a separate diagonal
i never understood this
it's the same logic behind people who like the flydigi or xbox dpads
OMG DIAGONALS FEEL SO GOOD
it's literally a combination of two cardinal directions, trying to press down a corner is significantly more awful

[Anonymous No.10953887]

>>10944890
>>10945750
I'm more of a numpad kinda guy myself

[Anonymous No.10953890]

>>10945832
the cheap ass shitty rockcandy circle d-pad?
>press up, goes left
>press down, goes right
>press right, entire pad detaches itself
that's the worst of the worst!

[Anonymous No.10953893]

>>10952373
I use two fingers to do that stuff, you should see me play tekken I look stupid doing that shit on both sides of the controller

[Anonymous No.10954494]

>>10953714

[Anonymous No.10955368]

>>10944456
>Was going to say say SNES, it's proportionally perfect, but now that I think about it it has caused pain after long sessions. I think the plastic might be slightly harder than is ideal.

Goin with this. Ain't the SNES - also snes input on the pad was kinda not great honestly.
An ideal D pad would have a soft later, rounded edges, good rotational pickup, ease of thumb rotation, short concise throws.

I don't know that I've ever used a single "amazing" dpad in the same way I have felt at least one amazing analog stick which was springy yet very little resistance so you could move it very gently and precisely without fighting it. Although with the joy-cons (despite the awful drifting, or the poor manufacturing quality, or the software handling bugs in games like Zelda) the low stature of the sticks and more ball of thumb position does allow a bit of precision and because it's low you can put your thumbs on the various sides and lever action it for very smooth fine movement. That help with the amount of resistance they do have - still those need less resistance.
Those aren't D-Pads though, but again, I've never run into D-Pads that made me go, holy shit that's an amazing d-pad. I've only ever used okay d-pads and trash d-pads. (Also fuck the dreamcast dpad it was a thumb killer)

[Anonymous No.10955423]

>>10946464
>>10947535
>>10947540
>didn't use the crystals

[Anonymous No.10955446]

>>10944403
Wii Classic Controller imo

[Anonymous No.10955581]

>>10944532
I wish 8BitDo made a wired controller.

[Anonymous No.10955658]

>>10955581
you can use it wired you know that right