So you say you hate you 360 D-Pad? FIXED!

Do you love fighting games? Do you love everything about your 360 but its D-Pad? Hey PAT this isfor you my fine fighting fanaticial brawl master > than I at any fighting game I'm sure HERE YOU GO

http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-Fix-the-d-pad-on-the-Xbox-360-control-pad-mor/

WARNING DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK THIS IS NOT FOR SAUSAGE FINGER PEOPLE. Seasoned TECH HEADS ONLY.

I'm not going through all that...and I shouldn't have to. Playing XBLA games is a pain in the ass w/ that horribly designed D-pad. Even if you can play with that Hori controller, I'm not playing fighters on a 360 consoles. Most lemmings don't care for fighters. The PS3 is the way to go for fighters. majadamus

Anything that needs to be taken apart to work right is broken in the first place.

~Captain Obvious

If you use a stick, then modifying the pad is pointless.King9999

Good point but a lot of folks in fact most are never getting a stick. This looks like a good fix, I never use the D-pad .... so I won't attempt it.

Should swap it out for the one from the SNES or if possible the Dualshock. You know, a good d-pad.foxhound_fox

The 360 controller would hands down be my favorite controller if it wasn't for that D-pad problem. I've noticed it's not as bad with my wired one that I use when friends come over or when I game on my PC, but it's still a big problem. It's actually one reason I never did get Lumines or Tetris on the 360.

There's no way I'm going to go through with a risky operation like that, though. I'm not that exceited about functioning d-pads, since I primarily play dual-joystick games like shooters.

Nice find, though it is a bit extreme as you have to open the controller. Kind of agree the D-Pad is really bad. I'm using the the controller to play DMC3 and sometimes I press up the game will detect that i press left and it ends up going to the wrong screen.VisualSpot

Thats really irritating, I guess yeah I won't try it I have semi sausage fingers.:(

The "fix" doesn't take care of the awkward positioning of the dpad which requires you to press it at an angle. Just buy a stick if you want to play VF5.

The "fix" doesn't take care of the awkward positioning of the dpad which requires you to press it at an angle. Just buy a stick if you want to play VF5.

nopalversion

Yeag I agree, there is an arcade stick for the likes of VF5 on the X360 to bring back those old arcade days :D