In preparation for Street Fighter IV, I’ve just been practicing Ryu’s standard moves in Street Fighter II’ Hyper Fighting using the 360′s normal pad. The d-pad is useless, so I’ve been trying the analogue stick. When facing right, I can do the hurricane kick, fireball and dragon punch pretty much all the time. But when I’m on the left I can do the fireball almost every time, the hurricane kick about half the time and the dragon punch only comes out about one time in five. Strange. And not really good enough, unless Street Fighter IV is somehow coded better for the standard pad.

I’d love to have a Street Fighter game to practice with on the PS3, to see if that pad’s any better, but I haven’t got one. D’oh.