How do people play with joysticks in their laps???

[strakka]

Alright, first off, I'm spoiled. I have an arcade about 5 mins walk away from me. Versus City cabinets too.

But anyways, practicing 3s combos on PS2 is just hard as fuck for me. The joystick & buttons just feel so much less sensitive, and it always feels like there's input lag (Even though I know there shouldn't be). Not to mention that when I do some moves, the joystick physically moves around, so the next motion is less precise. Goodbye qcfx2. Hello garbage.

So yeah. How the fuck do you people manage to play with a joystick in your lap??

Oh yeah, and if you're going to say it's my stick, I replaced the buttons with Sanwas, and the joystick is the stock SC2 Hori.

[Shin Ace]

It's 100% mental. When you can finally sit down and have 100% confidence that your move will come out without jerking the stick, you will be calm enough to pull it off. It'll take a while though, not something that happens overnight or that you can practice for.

[Captain Ryu]

Damn you are having trouble with a jap stick on your lap? My friend plays with a hard spring 360 mas on his lap. I cant fuck with that lol. I got myself a nice table and some rubber grips.

[owned54321]

lol........

[ragnafrak]

i dunno, some of those little Hori sticks are just way too small and light

[ToXY]

I use my hori stick on my lap (I use it to play on kaillera) and since the keyboards infront of me on the desk there isnt any room for the stick, so i just hold the stick in my lap and ive gotten use to it.

[Lynx Winters]

You may be moving the stick around too much. My friends have or had the same problem when they'd use my sticks, but once they realized that they don't have to jerk it around like crazy to get it to work, their execution improved dramatically.

Just one possibility.

[jettmanas]

It would make me feel funny- :shy: I wouldn't do it-

[bbq sauce]

My friend plays with a hard spring 360 mas on his lap.
Same. I been thinkin' of switchin it out for Sanwa parts, but I'm too lazy for all that.

For me, it was hard at first to play with the stick in my lap, but you get used to it, and after a while you barely even notice that the stick is in your lap.

[ParryPerson.]

I had the same problem coming from arcade to putting my stick in my lap, the problem always is QCF X 2, mainly the GJ yun cancel which is easy as hell in arcade, and was impossible in my lap.

I think it's because the arcade cabinet has enough weight so you can muscle the corners more, you can't really do that with a stick at home in your lap or the damn thing shifts all over the place.

It was either get a table and some rubber feet, or change my joystick style completly. It's easy when it's on a table with something to hold it still, and it's becoming less of a pain in the ass when it's in my lap, I'm probably going to just make the shit heavy as hell so it doesn't shift as much. Like I said, the only movement problem I had was (Yun) chain XX GJ.

[lung]

Personally I feel little difference between the two. When I have my SC2Hori in my lap my arms rest on the sides and it doesn't move at all. If anything playing on your lap is more about control, you can't just jerk the stick around to do a move. It is good to learn to play this way, teaches you to be more calm and makes your executions tighter.

[Rei]

I don't.

[Rock2k1]

I use a small table on wheels thing to put my joystick on. My friend seems to prefer to keep it on his lap. I don't know how the fuck he does it.

[Silentness!]

I dont put the stick on my lap because it moves too much. I put the stick in front of me and play on my knees.

[VruS]

sheer laziness. I'm just too lazy to clear the table now for my scII hori. I still play better when it's planted on the table but hey, practice makes perfect.

[EX-Sucker Punch]

I usually use my knees to hold the stick in place if it was in my lap. Otherwise, I'd use a chair, or if I felt like standing up, I use a chair and a couple of laundry baskets.

[SiLLiEMutAfuKA]

I use my HRAP on my laps, I actually got really used to it, and do alot better than just putting it on the floor or table.

[AssassiNate]

I always play with mine on my lap(HRAP). Since there aren't really any arcades close enough for me to play at I wasn't used to doing it any other way. I usually just try to keep it on my knees and I'm all right, though I definitely would like to have a table with some grips to put it on.

[TSC]

Alright, first off, I'm spoiled. I have an arcade about 5 mins walk away from me. Versus City cabinets too.

Yeah same here, except I have a VS City in my garage downstairs. I have no idea how people can play with an arcade stick on their lap...tried it before and it made everything twice as hard to do.

[nothing]

I can't play with my stick on my lap..I just sit on the floor and put it down infront of me. It works fairly well..

[RagingStorm101]

I can't sit on the floor at all. When I first got my MAS, I was like "Damn this is weird" and I had to change from putting it on the floor to my lap. Eventually the lap just grew on me.

[accord]

Alright, first off, I'm spoiled. I have an arcade about 5 mins walk away from me. Versus City cabinets too.

But anyways, practicing 3s combos on PS2 is just hard as fuck for me. The joystick & buttons just feel so much less sensitive, and it always feels like there's input lag (Even though I know there shouldn't be). Not to mention that when I do some moves, the joystick physically moves around, so the next motion is less precise. Goodbye qcfx2. Hello garbage.

So yeah. How the fuck do you people manage to play with a joystick in your lap??

Oh yeah, and if you're going to say it's my stick, I replaced the buttons with Sanwas, and the joystick is the stock SC2 Hori.

Here is how I do it. First I try to get myself aroused by reading a playboy magazine. I will start to feel blood rushing to my joystick. Then I proceed to unbutton and unzip my pants to take out my joystick. Since my joystick is the american bat style (unlike the tiny japanese style joysticks the japs use) handle, I have to grab it with my whole fist and grap it firm. To make sure your joystick dont move around while doing fireballs, make sure you are sitting on a chair. That is how I do it. I can do perfect 360 everytime.

[Superking]

Oh yeah, and if you're going to say it's my stick, I replaced the buttons with Sanwas, and the joystick is the stock SC2 Hori.

I think that's your problem right there. :tup:

[True_Tech]

just put it there and play stop being a scrub strakka i perfer my lap to a table or the floor my first stick was the sc2 stick so its not the stick you're just wack

[The Chef]

I also have a Hori SC2 stick with both the stick and buttons replaced by sanwa (the stock SC2 stick is still pretty good. though). Hell I also have a VS City arcade near me too.


I can play fine on my lap now, but it took me a while (ok like 6 months really..) to get used to it.

Basically if you're an arcade player, you are used to getting away with putting as much force on the joystick/buttons as you want, and them not budging an inch.
NOT ANY-MOORRRREE!!! now you need to control how powerfully you hit the buttons and stick, so the whole stick doesn't wobble around. If you are calm and gentle (like how gentle the Japanese players handle the sticks, opposite of American players and their "clutch DPs"), it should be ok.

Since you have a SMALL and light stick, you've already made life harder for yourself.
If you had a big stick like Hori Real Arcade Pro or MAS or xarcade, it would be easier to keep the stick still since they are so heavy.

But in the end the small stick gives a MUCH better payoff in that you can carry it round with you in your bag easily and still have room to spare :) Just the road to stick-stability is harder..

As for input lag, I've never heard of this with this particular stick.. unless you are using an adaptor to play on DC, PC, xbox or whatever. And PS2 3s is supposed to be essentially free of input lag.
Lag also might be caused by the screen you are playing on, are you playing on a projector or LCD monitor?

Rehan (Dead Man Inc.)

[CptMunta]

I play with the joystick in my lap. But only when no one else is around.

(Sorry i couldn't help myself, i have a dirty mind) ;)

[loganx2000]

I learned how to play marvel (the first game I played on a stick), at my house on a DC and not in the arcade. So I've been using the joystick on my lap since my ROM learning days up til now and playing any OTHER way is weird to me.

[JamMasterJom]

playing at an arcade or playing on my lap is absolutely no different to me

the difference comes in playing on my lap and playing with the stick on the floor in front of me

if its in front of me im not even half as good as id be if it was on my lap, or if i was at the arcade.

[strakka]

Lag- No adapter, regular TV. It always feels like it exists, or the CPU cheats like fuck to make sure that I miss 3/4 of my parries.

Anyways, in the end, I just said "fuck that", and grabbed a bunch of quarters and headed off to the arcade. Then I came home and cut the spring on my joystick even more. It's better, but still feels like shit to me. I'll probably replace the joystick later, when I actually care about playing 3s on my PS2 again.

And I can do the ROM infinte on DC, but it feels like there's so much more leeway to do crap in MvC2 than in 3s. And this is coming from someone who doesn't actually play MvC2, except to do random flashy combos. (It took me about all of 2 years to learn Cable's lk, mk, hk, AHVB, but about 30 mins to semi-learn the ROM infinite.)

Edit: True, for that comment, the moment your ghetto pass expires, I'm calling deportation on you. :tup: