Emulators vs Console controller weirdness

Ok, I know emulators are the inferior way to enjoy arcade games but It's how I got into Neo Geo games and I still have a soft spot for them.

Here's the question. I have a USB to PSX adapter for my PC so I can use a PS2 dualshock instead of a crappy PC gamepad. I recently bought a Neo Geo Pad 2, the NeoCD style pad that was sold with a KOF Anniversary edition for PS2, its an awesome pad. It works great on the PS2 but feels awful through emulators.

I'm using the latest WinKawaks for NeoGeo/CPS games and another (forgot the name, I think its the only one) for CPS3. It's damn hard to do fireball motions through the emulators, or almost anything that involves more than simple one direction inputs. SF3 seems to need fireball motions input really slowly (like awkward slow) witht he button push at the end delayed a bit. NeoGeo fighters just seem hit or miss regardless of the speed, either way its awful.

On the other hand, plugging the controller into a PS2 its amazing, everything about it whoops the Dualshock for fighting games and both MvC2 and SF3 feel perfect. Even stuff like pulling of a cheap Hyper Viper Beam immediately after a jump so there is less lag is easy a pie.

This is of course a great argument in favor of owning the original hardware, but has anyone had any experience with this? It just makes me wonder if its the adapter that sucks, or the emulators. If its the emulators I wonder if MAME, which im not too fond of, works better. If not, that suck for everyone with a mame cabinet.

long winded I know
-thanks

Try picking up a new adaptor. A lot of Playstation to USB adaptors are pretty crappy with fast timing games like fighting games / music games.

bummer, ok, thanks for the heads up.

Mine came from RadioShack and I always doubted its quality a bit, it my have reached its limit.

Input lag?

yea its probably the adapter, i have a old radio shack one and i have the same problem when it comes to fighters. check this link out should help you out finding a new one

sweet. I figured there was a ton of people out there that test this stuff, and what do ya know, there is.

Think I might go grab one of these from Play-Asia
http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-6m-49-en-70-qc2.html

I also ran across USB Saturn controllers, which sound like they are pretty sweet. Anyone have any expearience with these? Although I don't know if its worth getting one as I doubt its much better, if at all, than a Neo Geo pad. I kind of like the clicky thumbstick.

thanks again

The Xbox 360 arcade sticks are usually USB, and that means it works on your PC. If you have a SF4 stick sitting around you should be able to use it.

im 360less so, no go on SFIV sticks , thinking about picking up SFIV for PC at some point though, I was hoping to use a nice gamepad for it, hence looking for a new adapter.