It's expensive but try the Victrix pro BFG. After evo I see they made a new. I've had my original for 3 years. Just a solid controller for all games overall and the extra dpads fit anyone's preference for fgs when you find the one you like

usually just go for ye old reliable xbox controller, if you want a proper fighting game controller you'd want a 'fight stick'

I've been using the same two Xbox One controllers for nearly ten years now. Just gotta clean them occasionally.

I HAVE A QUESTION....because this site won't let me create a subject....apparently because I'm new, which makes about as much sense as having ur asshole located on the crown of ur head.....

Just got this game from ps plus....and I thought I was going to enjoy it until....any time I get anywhere....on a single player tower, mind u....I get about halfway thru and get the message "you are not connected to the MK1 servers". And I have to start over. And start over. And start over again......What gives? All my other games are fine. My internet is fast. This is an issue that should be solved DAY 1, and to my understanding this game is nearly 2 YEARS OLD. WTF?

I don't play fighters too much, especially online, but I can't fathom how folks play it on regular gamepads... My hands get really sore quick, and moves feel very inaccurate with either stick or D-pad, also hard to use. Face buttons are positioned in diamond form, so quickly inputing up/down left right is pretty hard with small windows. On top of uncomfortable use (for me at least), pads get ruined real fast with fighting games.

I play on keyboard, super easy, precise inputs and you really don't get tired even after playing for hours. Your fingers already lay on each key and just need dextreity to input fast.

But ideal input method would be Fight Sticks. Buttons are in a row, perfectly positioned and are big, so you can never miss. Stick is very comfortable to hold and move, not just with 1 finger. Can do super precise directional inputs. I'd never understand anyone who plays fighting games competitively, especially one like MK, which is very old school in input and mechanics, and not just buy themselves Fight Sticks. They are also durable as hell, especially better ones.

Series X controller.

Personally got the 8bit duo M30 with the brooks xb wingman converter.

Well it depends. If you wanna wake up your neighbour in the middle of the night then series x controller is a way to go. But I personally think that playing fighting games on a clicky dpad is terrible.

Maximilian Dood is great

Fucking love max

Hes cool

This was very interesting, thank you

Does anyone know how to buy the dpad he's talking about? I went to the site but could only find how to buy entire controller. If anyone knows, please let me know!

Been enjoying the GC Ultimate from HHL 

I assume the placement/spacing of the switches means round actuators wouldn’t function properly. I’ve never seen a Happ or IL style lever without a square actuator.

I'm not really a connoisseur of Mortal Kombat, but the ports seem to closely match hardware capabilities.

• An arcade-perfect port is included on Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection for 360/PS3, and Midway Arcade Treasures 2 for PS2/XB/GC
• The PS1 and Saturn ports would be arcade-perfect, if not for long loading times
• The 32X port is pretty good, with short loading times
• The SNES port is the best 16-bit version
• The Genesis port is noticeably weaker than the SNES port, but basically fine
• The Master System, Game Gear and Game Boy ports are bad

For me it was SNES. As a kid I had both systems and it just felt closer to the arcade for me.

It was also mind blowing at the time to see Nintendo allow them to make the game uncensored.

I did find the SNES controllers a bit more responsive as well compared to the 6 button Genesis.

32x. the load times on the Saturn take it out of the lead

Technically Mortal Kombat 2 - 32X Ultimate Edition BUT since it's 2024 - the best version you can play is Mortal Kombat 2 Plus which is an Arcade QoL romhack

The home ports strive to be the like the Arcade so an Arcade ROM Hack > Any home Port

You could also argue there are M.U.G.E.N. games like Mortal Kombat II Remix but those aren't exactly authentic and more involved to setup and play

You could also argue a SNES MSU-1 version which would have better sound effects than the 32X IMHO but it's all really subjective

I just got the hori fighting commander for xbox yesterday because I've had buttons break on 2 original xbox controllers already and it's really the only controller i've heard people recommend.

I've only played a couple hours w/ hit, but here are my thoughts:

The sensitivity of the controller seems much more accurate than the original xbox controller. By that I mean if you tap a button quickly, it's only going to register for that very short time. I noticed that i had to slow down my dash cancels in combos because the micro forward press i was doing for something like F3 was going by too quickly. On the other side, this makes short hops insanely easy, so much so I was able to start using them in my play which i hadn't bothered trying since april because the short hop felt so finicky on a normal controller.

The form factor of the controller is atrocious. It feels like an old SNES controller w/ no palm grips to firmly hold the controller w/o over gripping. This is so annoying i'm actively trying to figure out how i could add on grips to make the controller feel better. I've noticed that my left thumb sits higher on the d-pad due to the small grip and this results in sloppy back-forward moves going from having some errant down presses to having errant up presses which screws up your whiffs way worse. It's also much lighter than a normal xbox controller which could be a plus or it could just feel cheap to you.

This pad suffers from the same issue as standard xbox and ps4... non-discrete d-pad buttons. Press right a bit too hard at an angle and it's going to throw in an up or down press as well cuz it's 1 piece of plastic balanced on a point in the center. How they can call this a fighting controller and not have discrete d-pad buttons is baffling to me. This was the one feature i wanted, but in my limited research, the only solution i've found for discrete d pads is getting a battle beavers mod on a ps4 controller.

The controller has no sticks which means you can't use any modifiers in ToT, this is part the controllers fault because you can remap buttons, but not to stick options. This is also NRS's fault for not providing configuration options for the modifier buttons (people that use hitboxes have been asking for this since april).

You can remap buttons on the controller which is... whatever. You can do that through xbox system settings already and the only remapping i did was to "un-break" the controllers default layout which moves RT & RB to the face button, LT & LB to the RT & RB position(?!?!) and i think left stick button and right stick button to the LT & LB position... it's a mess and MK11 doesn't benefit from it at all in my opinion. The hori fight command for ps4 has a rapid-fire/auto-press feature instead of button remapping and I'd much rather have that than this one's remap feature which is borderline worthless on the xbox system.

I've already spewed more info than you probably want so I'll say that so far i think the controller has great response, but if it weren't for the fact that xbox controllers apparently aren't constructed to survive fighting games, i'd just stick w/ a normal xbox controller. For me the form factor really ruins this controller so if i can't find a way to make it feel better, I might return it. Happy to answer and specific questions if you have them tho. Good luck on the search for a good controller! Also remember that good controller != competitive player, many of the pros use regular ps4 and xbox pads.

I prefer Nintendo 64 controller

It's depend of your favorites. So... usually I try differents models in offline store, after this can order only which are better for me XD

Preferably an Xbox controller

In my opinion the hitbox is the absolute optimal controller for fighting games.

I use an 8bitdo Xbox/PC leverless. It's my first ever, after not playing any FGs for probably 10 years. It's really, really great, and I don't think I can ever go back to a stick.

I really like to so far, my only grip with them is that the far right pill button is a little too downward. I use it for DI and have trained myself to move my ring finger to move over to hit the upper right button on other controllers, because it is a little easier than commanding my pinky to bend itself. They chose to make the button symmetrical with the left side one and it does look nice, but the point of a pill button is to be the mid point of the standard 2 right buttons imo, and right now it is basically just positioned like a lower one that goes even further down. Probably just a personal thing for me. Getting used to just using my pinky would probably be optimal anyways, where it is very ergonomic.

I have a Mavercade 04MX which this one was modeled after, and it's honestly the best. Super comfortable to use with the split layout too. This one just needs a little more split, but I'm sure it's better than standard layout. Great product. DOIO has one too. It feels super intuitive in my hands.

Can you map either bottom pill to a different button so you can have jump on left bottom bill and dash on right bottom?

C16S is quite awesome. I'm not buying any new controllers for a long time. Only problem now is I can't decide what art I want to put in it.

They mainly use PS4 controllers at tournaments.