Good/Best "old school" controller for Xbox 360?

[DownSince86]

I'm looking for a controller with a great d-pad for playing Mega Man 9 and other new "retro" games on the 360. I _really_ want to have my top times and achievements for Mega Man 9 on my 360. On top of that it'd be nice to actually be able to play this game on my 360...right now I find the controller to be so horrible that I just can't stand it.

Also, are there any controllers that allow you to swap the start/select (back) buttons? I prefer to have weapon selection mapped to the start button instead of the select button. I don't know who the idiot at capcom is that thought assigning that function to the back button was a good idea but he should be shot. As far as I know there is no way to re-map the buttons through the game itself.

I guess the perfect solution for me would be a modded NES controller with start and select buttons swapped. Anyone have one of those for sale?

[GSZX1337]

Have you looked at the SFIV pads? I've been thinking about getting one of those myself.

[corn619]

Believe it or not, the rockband portable drum kit has a excellent d-pad and old school controller feel. I,d sell you my portable drumkit for $25.00 shipped if you can't find one. Its a great controller for old school games.

[RadarScope1]

Believe it or not, the rockband portable drum kit has a excellent d-pad and old school controller feel. I,d sell you my portable drumkit for $25.00 shipped if you can't find one. Its a great controller for old school games.

Yeah, Ars Technica did a review saying it's one of the best. Too bad you have to get some big useless thing attached to it.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2008 ... um-set.ars

The Hori EX Turbo pad back from a couple years back is supposed to be good.

http://www.amazon.com/Hori-Controller-E ... 825&sr=1-2

I wouldn't put too much stock in the SF pads for platformers and arcade games. It's really just designed to work for SF. I have one and thought it might work with Pac-Man CE but it's rubbish with that game.

I still think Sega needs to release a retro-focus pad using the Dreamcast d-pad design and sell it in limited quantities online. People would buy something like that, no doubt.

Let us know if you find anything better...

[GSZX1337]

Believe it or not, the rockband portable drum kit has a excellent d-pad and old school controller feel. I,d sell you my portable drumkit for $25.00 shipped if you can't find one. Its a great controller for old school games.

Yeah, Ars Technica did a review saying it's one of the best. Too bad you have to get some big useless thing attached to it.

Yeah, the Xbox 360.

[RadarScope1]

Ba-dump CHING!

[corn619]

All the cords are detachable leaving you with a nice, clean looking NES style controller. Add the fact that they can be found cheaply makes it easier to buy.

Edit: just got the joke. ha ha

[Niode]

Interesting, did not know about the portable drum kit. I've seen plenty of these for cheap since I think people either buy them and find they're defective and return, or find their rubbish as a drum controller and trade them back. I think I might look into buying one for cheap next time I go into town. I might even get away with trading the pads on ebay as spares/repairs and drive the cost down even more.

If you're in the UK Shopto.net had the SFIV pads for £25 (cheapest I've ever seen them in this country) but I don't know if they still have them, I bought one and it wouldn't let me buy another. God damn their one sale item per person policy!! Either that or I got the last one.

I wish Microsoft would enable USB HID controllers to work. I'd love to use one of those playsega controllers with my 360. Of course I could always gut a 360 controller and make my own frankontroller with an old Saturn pad.

[buttonmasher123]

I enjoy that Street Fighter IV gamepad quite a bit as it has a stong resemblance to the old Genesis 6 button controller which is my favorite controller of all time. The only thing I don't like is the fact that you have to push down harder than you would like on the diagonal directions on the d-pad to get tham to respond correctly.

[Niode]

Yeah I find it's much better for Street Fighter IV, I can actually play that game now. I still get owned online though... At least I can't blame the controller though.