Interface upgrade.
I’ll get this out of the way early – as much as I adore Sega’s last home console, I never loved the Dreamcast controller.
Sure, there were things I liked about it; it was pretty comfortable to hold, the Hall Effect stick was great (Sega used the same tech in its Saturn 3D pad, proving it was decades ahead of the game), and I really liked the fact that you could clip the cable to the pad’s rear to prevent it from getting in the way during use – but, on the whole, I was disappointed that Sega dropped the six-button layout and gave it a D-Pad that was woeful for 2D fighting games (thankfully, ASCII came to the rescue).
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Interface upgrade.
I’ll get this out of the way early – as much as I adore Sega’s last home console, I never loved the Dreamcast controller.
Sure, there were things I liked about it; it was pretty comfortable to hold, the Hall Effect stick was great (Sega used the same tech in its Saturn 3D pad, proving it was decades ahead of the game), and I really liked the fact that you could clip the cable to the pad’s rear to prevent it from getting in the way during use – but, on the whole, I was disappointed that Sega dropped the six-button layout and gave it a D-Pad that was woeful for 2D fighting games (thankfully, ASCII came to the rescue).
Read the full article on timeextension.com
