Odd choice of colour if you ask me..I attribute purple to Vampire, not SF/ I would hope for a better looking TE for Capcom's next Vampire game. I'd like those same buttons but a dark purple casing with original artwork.
 

" @Lilja: I think the bigger question is... why not reply to a 9 month old post? "

I use one of these, custom made stick.
 
 
http://img2.imageshack.us/img2/7582/img0736small.jpg 

" I use one of these, custom made stick.   http://img2.imageshack.us/img2/7582/img0736small.jpg  "

 lol actually these are some generic brand stuff, it feels just like sanwa though, I compared it with my sanwa stick/TE and can barely tell the difference, it definitely has better response than the SE I got.
 
here is the website,
 
http://www.automatinglife.com/NightRaven

I bought a plain Hori EX2 that's supposed to be coming in later today.
 
I don't get all the hate toward it. None of it in this thread has been backed up by anything other than opinion. I'm not going to modify it so that's no problem (well MAYBE replace the 'art' if it gets annoying -- but unlikely). 

Nothing wrong with ex2 as your first stick imo, I had one and have no problems with it until I got a sanwa custom.
Some people say the buttons are not as responsive or the parts are not durable enough, I never got that far to prove them wrong though, oh well.

Hello all, I have been having a problem with a controller I bought recently and you guys seem to know what you're talking about so prehaps you can help.
I bought this gamepad from 
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250494315305   recently as I got SF4 for my PC and a keyboard dosn't cut it for this game. Anyways thing arrives and I install the drivers and play the game with the wonderful feeling I can play this game as it's meant to be played when disaster strikes. The bloody thing fucks up the sound so it keeps looping everynow and then whilst plugged in and I have to use a keyboard to navigate the menu, its terrible. Then in fight, the bloody thing dosn't know what I'm telling it to do. My character can't move and moving the stick around seems to make him punch or kick with all the buttons doing nothing. I am on a Windows 7 machine and under device manager all the buttons I a press on the stick agree with what my computer is telling me I'm pressing so it is connected correctly. I installed SF4 on a older XP machine and their is no looping sounds when using the pad but the controls are all fucked up in exactly the same way. The annoying thing is is that their is no manufactors name on the pad or even on the packaging so I can't get any support from them. I really want to play this amazing looking game as it brings me back to my child-hood, but with better graphics. Any suggestions?

" Hello all, I have been having a problem with a controller I bought recently and you guys seem to know what you're talking about so prehaps you can help. I bought this gamepad from  http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250494315305   recently as I got SF4 for my PC and a keyboard dosn't cut it for this game. Anyways thing arrives and I install the drivers and play the game with the wonderful feeling I can play this game as it's meant to be played when disaster strikes. The bloody thing fucks up the sound so it keeps looping everynow and then whilst plugged in and I have to use a keyboard to navigate the menu, its terrible. Then in fight, the bloody thing dosn't know what I'm telling it to do. My character can't move and moving the stick around seems to make him punch or kick with all the buttons doing nothing. I am on a Windows 7 machine and under device manager all the buttons I a press on the stick agree with what my computer is telling me I'm pressing so it is connected correctly. I installed SF4 on a older XP machine and their is no looping sounds when using the pad but the controls are all fucked up in exactly the same way. The annoying thing is is that their is no manufactors name on the pad or even on the packaging so I can't get any support from them. I really want to play this amazing looking game as it brings me back to my child-hood, but with better graphics. Any suggestions? "

Yeah, I've had a look at the controller utility, but it dosn't make a lick of sense to me, it seems the stick is connected cottectly, with the up arrow being matched to "POV U" and the left arrow going for "POV L," and so on, so thats probaly fine. Seeing as the stick and the select and start button are the only things that do anything though (and even thats the wrong thing), the rest of the button matches don't make any sense to me. For example, "A" (Which I don't even have on my stick") is matched up to "1," or "RB" is matched up to "6" and so on...

" I bought a plain Hori EX2 that's supposed to be coming in later today.  I don't get all the hate toward it. None of it in this thread has been backed up by anything other than opinion. I'm not going to modify it so that's no problem (well MAYBE replace the 'art' if it gets annoying -- but unlikely).  "

The buttons on the EX2s are ok for the most part.  After about 2 months of HDR my friends EX2 buttons started sticking, and he bought a full custom joystick with jap parts (and thus began our stick building madness).  TBH, the hori buttons are just fine until the first time you play on sanwa/seimitsu buttons.  Once you get the feel for a certain set the others just feel wrong. 

I agree. It's hard to advise anyone out of using a Hori, not when they've yet to try the other two for a decent period of time.
 
It's not just sticking I've found, sometimes the buttons don't have the same feel that they once had at the start, while the others remain consistent for much much longer.

Cheers for the advice guys, I have almost got the controller mapped. Each button relates to a number that can be found in Device Manager, some of the punch and kicking buttons are the wrong way round but I have got the stick working so thats all good. However this dosn't help the more anoying matter of the sound in the game looping whenever the stick is plugged in.

" I agree. It's hard to advise anyone out of using a Hori, not when they've yet to try the other two for a decent period of time.  It's not just sticking I've found, sometimes the buttons don't have the same feel that they once had at the start, while the others remain consistent for much much longer. "