User blog:Allgorhythm/My New Controller Toy

My 62 year old hands suffer from Osteoathritis and the gruelling consecutive Ur-D battles with constant 100/1,000 Kisses slashing take their toll. Ghost of Kirin recommended the Hori Pad EX2 Turbo that is able to assign a turbo or rapid fire function to each button:

http://www.hori.jp/us/Products/XBOX360/us_xbox360_horipad_ex2_turbo/index.htm



I just received it yesterday and, although I have not had much time to use it yet, I have put it through its paces and a preliminary report follows. The pad is the same size as the standard XBox Controller but the sides are a lit

tle more flared. In Fig. 1,  the Hori is to the left of a Razer Sabertooth and

below a standard XBox 360 controller.

The Hori controller provides three features not found on a standard controller. *Each button can be enabled with a turbo function Fig. 2 shows the center of the Hori pad. Note the turbo button in the upper right that activates the turbo feature, the speed switch below the start button that changes turbo speed, and the analog control switch below the back button that changes the sensitivity of the analog sticks.
 * Two buttons have been added that duplicate and can be used interchangeably with the left and right bumpers.
 * The sensitivity of the analog sticks can be changed.  There are three settings.Hori_Turbo.jpg

The turbo feature is activated by pressing the turbo button and then pressing the button to which the turbo feature is to be enabled. Pressing the turbo button and a button that already has the turbo feature enabled will initiate automatic turbo. In other words, the turbo feature will be activated without the button being depressed. Pressing turbo and a button with automatic turbo will restore the button to its default non-turbo state.