The best d-pad you've ever used?

[The Catboy]

What does it look like modded?

Nothing external has changed, I just opened it and filed down the little nub inside of it preventing the buttons from all being pushed.
It's also useful for booting the Wii into recovery mode.

 

[RevPokemon]

Nothing external has changed, I just opened it and filed down the little nub inside of it preventing the buttons from all being pushed.
It's also useful for booting the Wii into recovery mode.

OK well that's good (probably great for emus and retro games on Wii)

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

I've been quite partial to the Vita's D-pad, easily one of the better handheld one's out there.

The DS4 controller's D-pad is also significantly improved from the DS3, as well as the Xbox One's controller which has vastly improved on the shitpile that was the 360's controller.

 

[Wellington2k]

Nintendo's are usually the best. After all, they invented them in the first place.

 

[WiiCube_2013]

Any of the PlayStation controllers and then Nintendo. That separated D-PAD is just so comfy for retro/fighting/platformers games and whatnot.

 

[Joe88]

Also I got to say, the vita's dpad is great, probably the best mobile gaming system dpad to date, and yes I have used almost all of them (GB, GBP, GG, GBC, GBA, GBASP, GBM, NGPC, PSP, ODS, DSL, 3DSXL, N3DSXL)

 

[Hungry Friend]

It seems most of you haven't used a Sega Saturn Dpad(model 2 controller) because in my eyes it is the undisputed king of dpads and the only dpad that's actually good enough to use competitively in fighting games. All those fight pads that Mad Catz makes are modeled after the SS pad but are cheaply made and shitty compared to the real deal. The 6 face buttons also help(namely in Capcom fighters) but the SS dpad makes it very easy to pull off even complex moves in series like King of Fighters very consistently.