How bad are PS2 to Xbox converters?

Van Fanel · Basic Member Joined: 31 Aug 2002

i got ultramix for xmas but i dont have an xbox pad. do the converters really throw off the timing that badly?

i was thinking of going to babbages and picking one up today, but maybe ill just get max2 instead.

GepettoZHog · Trick Member Joined: 05 Apr 2003

Well, it depends. In most cases, a Gemeni converter works fine. However, the timing on Ultramix is even stingier than 5th mix. That is to say, that regardless of how you THINK you're on beat, you will miss steps that aren't "Marvelouses." If you think your steps are alread "perfect," then go Max 2.
If you think you have room to improve, go Ultramix. Also, you may want to set it to +1 depending on the lag time between adapters (CF metal pad through control box through Gemeni makes a milisecond o lag). Also, if you decide that no adapter is good enough for you (all of them will register you as a controller online with no headset), then you can look up Mastermind3k's forum on how to disembowel your bundle-in pad to make a control box that is perfect in every way.
_________________

The Signature of a Lazy Person

YmkFX · Trick Member Joined: 24 Jul 2003 Location: California

Make sure you get an official pad, I waited and shelled out the cash to get a pad just so I could play online and be picked up as one (I have a CF and could've gotten an adaptor). Well, turns out my Naki softpad is registered as a controller, so do yourself a favor and get an official pad. I'm going to mod my pads on a piece of ply wood, so I'll get the Konami pad and put it on the one player side and use that online, then have a doubles kit for single player.
_________________