Thorz
21-04-2002, 05:41:PM
Hi everyone
I am so sad and frustrated. I need to speak about this and there is not better polace than here, at least its cheeper than a phsicolog.
My history started when I bought my 1st dream gamepad 2 years ago after having a set of gravis gamepads (Gravis GRiP), for me it was the Logitech Gamepad Extreme, not for the features but for the shape and the button feeling, none gamepad until now has give me that confort. But after a spectacular year with FIFA 2001, came EA sports with FIFA 2002 and the analog controll, then I knew I needed one analog gamepad, and bought in october last year a Thrustmaster Dual Power (1st version). An amazing gamepad. After passing the learning curve (passing from a 6 button faced pad to a 4 faced one) I had become a very good player with the Dual Power, beating the computer was easy after lot of practice. I use to play on World difficulty (the last one) and even in december had to learn to play on fastest to beat some friends that only play on this level. I was totally inlove with the gamepad, but I started to feel that the buttons (specially the shooting one) had started to have problems. They were becoming stiff, litle hard, or simply not taktile good enough. Then I decided to send it to Thrustmaster for recieving a new one.
After more than 1 hole month without gamepad, I recieved another Dual Power from Thrustmaster. It looked great also, but I was not feeling confortable with the shooting button again, it was the feedback that it gave me, it was feeling softer than the other buttons. Then I started to think that it could be a defect in the fabrication of the Dual Power, so I decided to buy a totally new Dual Power, but the new improved version (Dual Power 2). After recieving it I was totally sorprised to see that they had sweep away one button, the button in the midle that I used to have as start buuton!, and this new gamepad had extra-hard analog sticks! My tomb was getting very stress and tired after some hours of playing (this never happened with the 1st version). The feedback of the 4 face buttons was little better in the new version, but nothing exceptional.
I have opened the old Thrustmaster for trying to see what the problem could be, and found that it is the system that they use, the plastic springs that they use under the buttons don't look very good for resist heavy months after months use. I have changed the position of some of the springs and have closed the gamepad, with the so bad luck that the screws that they have used were of the worse quality that they got damaged closing it. Now I have a gamnepad impossible to open again because the screws are totally damaged! They look like if I had used a dremel on them! Their marks are totally ereased. And the buttons have started to bother again. Speaking about the new gamepad just bought, definitly I could not like the 2nd version, the layout of the 1st was much better. I am returning that one to the store for having the money back.
After all this suffering I don't know what gamepad to buy for enjoying my FIFA. And now its coming WC 2002, so I have to have a gamepad soon! From all the pads that I have seen the only one that look like the dual power is the Belkin Nostromo n45 Dual Analog USB. But this one doesn't have Force Feedback. I have not heard so much about it either. And the Logitech Rumblepad is very good also, but the buttons are made for persons with smaller hands than me, they are too close for my taste (not like the 6 buttons of the Wingman Extreeme).
Need some advice please. I don't like the Gravis ones because the software apears to have too much problems. And all the others that I have seen don't look like good opyions to me (Microsoft for example). The dificult thing is that here in the town there is not a store where thay can have gamepads for looking. I have to order it via internet.
Is there anybody using a Playstation 2 controll in the PC for FIFA 2002? This ones are awesome quality!
Thanks for reading friends.
I am so sad and frustrated. I need to speak about this and there is not better polace than here, at least its cheeper than a phsicolog.
My history started when I bought my 1st dream gamepad 2 years ago after having a set of gravis gamepads (Gravis GRiP), for me it was the Logitech Gamepad Extreme, not for the features but for the shape and the button feeling, none gamepad until now has give me that confort. But after a spectacular year with FIFA 2001, came EA sports with FIFA 2002 and the analog controll, then I knew I needed one analog gamepad, and bought in october last year a Thrustmaster Dual Power (1st version). An amazing gamepad. After passing the learning curve (passing from a 6 button faced pad to a 4 faced one) I had become a very good player with the Dual Power, beating the computer was easy after lot of practice. I use to play on World difficulty (the last one) and even in december had to learn to play on fastest to beat some friends that only play on this level. I was totally inlove with the gamepad, but I started to feel that the buttons (specially the shooting one) had started to have problems. They were becoming stiff, litle hard, or simply not taktile good enough. Then I decided to send it to Thrustmaster for recieving a new one.
After more than 1 hole month without gamepad, I recieved another Dual Power from Thrustmaster. It looked great also, but I was not feeling confortable with the shooting button again, it was the feedback that it gave me, it was feeling softer than the other buttons. Then I started to think that it could be a defect in the fabrication of the Dual Power, so I decided to buy a totally new Dual Power, but the new improved version (Dual Power 2). After recieving it I was totally sorprised to see that they had sweep away one button, the button in the midle that I used to have as start buuton!, and this new gamepad had extra-hard analog sticks! My tomb was getting very stress and tired after some hours of playing (this never happened with the 1st version). The feedback of the 4 face buttons was little better in the new version, but nothing exceptional.
I have opened the old Thrustmaster for trying to see what the problem could be, and found that it is the system that they use, the plastic springs that they use under the buttons don't look very good for resist heavy months after months use. I have changed the position of some of the springs and have closed the gamepad, with the so bad luck that the screws that they have used were of the worse quality that they got damaged closing it. Now I have a gamnepad impossible to open again because the screws are totally damaged! They look like if I had used a dremel on them! Their marks are totally ereased. And the buttons have started to bother again. Speaking about the new gamepad just bought, definitly I could not like the 2nd version, the layout of the 1st was much better. I am returning that one to the store for having the money back.
After all this suffering I don't know what gamepad to buy for enjoying my FIFA. And now its coming WC 2002, so I have to have a gamepad soon! From all the pads that I have seen the only one that look like the dual power is the Belkin Nostromo n45 Dual Analog USB. But this one doesn't have Force Feedback. I have not heard so much about it either. And the Logitech Rumblepad is very good also, but the buttons are made for persons with smaller hands than me, they are too close for my taste (not like the 6 buttons of the Wingman Extreeme).
Need some advice please. I don't like the Gravis ones because the software apears to have too much problems. And all the others that I have seen don't look like good opyions to me (Microsoft for example). The dificult thing is that here in the town there is not a store where thay can have gamepads for looking. I have to order it via internet.
Is there anybody using a Playstation 2 controll in the PC for FIFA 2002? This ones are awesome quality!
Thanks for reading friends.