Arcade Stick vs Controller

[Tigre]

Entirely hardware. You just need to run the signals from the keyboard to the pcb of your system of choice. I don't know of any guides, because I don't know of anyone who's actually done it. Knowing how all this works though, Its not hard to understand the process.
a mechanical keyboard would be the easiest (it has easy solder points on the board) you would just run signal and ground to all of the keys you wished to use.
By no building I mean you don't need to build a case or buy special buttons or anything. You could take an off the shelf keyboard and something like a Cerberus or Cthulhu PCB and find a way to house it in the keyboard.

[BlackYakuzu94]

Greetings everyone. I have a friend who I think is committed to getting better in Extend, and I put forth a suggestion for a stick based on my own experience with it. He feels it's a waste of money and I respected that, but I have to know, does mastering a controller have an overall benefit than a stick or is it entirely dependent on the person. I want him to have the easiest time.

[Airk]

Greetings everyone. I have a friend who I think is committed to getting better in Extend, and I put forth a suggestion for a stick based on my own experience with it. He feels it's a waste of money and I respected that, but I have to know, does mastering a controller have an overall benefit than a stick or is it entirely dependent on the person. I want him to have the easiest time.

IMHO, it takes more effort to achieve a similar degree of precision on a pad. Also, if your friend is serious in the "wants to play in tournaments" way, pad is a PITA, because it's not universal across systems.

[TheYukianesa-01]

Greetings everyone. I have a friend who I think is committed to getting better in Extend, and I put forth a suggestion for a stick based on my own experience with it. He feels it's a waste of money and I respected that, but I have to know, does mastering a controller have an overall benefit than a stick or is it entirely dependent on the person. I want him to have the easiest time.

I presume you mean me. I don't completely think it's a waste of money, I feel like it's too much money, I barely have enough for games.

IMHO, it takes more effort to achieve a similar degree of precision on a pad. Also, if your friend is serious in the "wants to play in tournaments" way, pad is a PITA, because it's not universal across systems.

I don't really myself in tournaments lol. Seems out of my league.

[Primiera]

A slightly small fix to the OP, but still an important one:

2: “P-Linking”- (SFIV & SSFIV) This trick uses input priority and multiple inputs to increase the windows of links. Button priority states that when multiple buttons and press at the same time, the highest priority move comes out. For instance: Pressing all three of Ryu’s kicks button makes a roundhouse kick come out. To consistently combo Ryu’s Cr. LP into Cr. RH (a 1-frame link) the “P-link” input makes it a 3-frame link. : Cr.LP, [C.HK]~[Cr.MK]~[Cr.LK] : You have successfully input Cr.HK (3) times.

This is not true. Plinking only gives one possible extra frame to a link, though adding extra inputs gives more of a chance for a proper plink. The only reason I bring this up is in case someone wants to get an arcade stick just because they think they can get SSF4's Rufus's st.LK > st.HP as a 5F link or something.

[Woocash]

Are there any solutions (most likely: converters, adapters) for someone who needs to use a PS3 pad on an Xbox-ran tournament? I haven't had any luck finding something. I don't play stick, unfortunately.

[Celerity]

Are there any solutions (most likely: converters, adapters) for someone who needs to use a PS3 pad on an Xbox-ran tournament? I haven't had any luck finding something. I don't play stick, unfortunately.

Converters from PS3 to 360 exist, but they all either have input delay or require a 360 controller from what I'm aware. And PS3 wireless controllers are banned at many tournaments because they cause sync issues.

The best solution is to get a PS2 pad, for which there are tons of lagless converters like this one. Also, the L2 and R2 buttons on a PS2 pad are much, much more responsive if you use them for RC'ing and stuff like I do.

[Sukezaemon32]

I play fighting games on keyboard much more often than I do controller or arcade stick.