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I mean it's better than most modern controllers because it doesn't have drift (uses hall effect sensors! Wow!) but dang the range of motion on it is small. I wanted to use one in place of the Sega Arcade Racer and that was not happening, couldn't get precise control.


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in reply to @lifning's post:

I still have my 3D pad and NiGHTS Into Dreams. And Panzer Dragoon Saga, which I had to supplement by buying a copy of Disk 4 after discovering that the one I bought had two copies of Disk 2 and no Disk 4 at the end of Disk 3. Also, its memory is now fucked to the point that not even a fresh 2032 will keep a save game through a power cycle. In short: the Saturn dealt psychic damage to me and I still play NiGHTS sometimes anyway.

in reply to @plumpan's post:

were you holding it forward and then steering along the top edge? i think from my unscientific experience (at least from trying it with Daytona) that some racing games are measuring angle rather than X position, and so trying to get precision along the X axis won't work like it does in, say, Mario Kart 64. also rolling it along the top incidentally felt more like holding a steering wheel, though i don't know that that's intentional

I did actually try that but it didn't feel right either. I usually just, push left and right. Trying to be smooth at best made my hand sore. The grip positions did not help.

I'm also a VERY spoiled boy and have some hori n64 mini pads with a lovely oversized GC style stick that are EXTREMELY good for that kind of thing so going from an extra tall smooth stick to the sunken in 3D pad didn't vibe well.

Like I said, captain of the hater club. I love love LOVE the stock saturn pad too. Favorite non analogue controller easily.

well yeah, I've got a pair of hori minis myself! they've got their own errata but there are definitely games that they're extremely ideal for, to the point that i didn't wanna give someone an unfair advantage in ssb64 by only having one. but y'know, different tools for different jobs and all that. playing NiGHTS with the hori mini very much didn't feel right, as one might imagine

For what it's worth I was just playing sega rally and wanted precise control, and it's not good for that. I'm very racing game biased so that's usually how I rate a stick.

How are they better for smash? It's been so long since I played 64 I wouldn't even know.

smash is all about the "did you hard tap the stick or not" and the wide range of motion and precision of the hori mini make for a less stringent motor control check for staying on one side or the other of the velocity threshold, especially during high-APM gameplay. plus the doubled up Z buttons work for people with R-shield muscle memory from later smashes

but then, i'm also someone who noticed i could map the Saturn 3D Pad 1:1 to the GameCube Controller in Dolphin (the C button becomes a modifier for whether the ball is left stick or C-stick) and full cleared melee single player that way as a bit, so i guess it can't be that crucial