Still looking for the perfect Xbox 360 d-pad for all those Live Arcade classics? Well Ars Technica may have stumbled on the answer, although it's not the most efficient (or cheapest) solution: Turns out the Mad Catz Portable Drum Kit just happens to have a d-pad controller remarkably similar to an old Super Nintendo pad.

The kit comes with four loose drum pads, which all connect to a central hub with a d-pad and four face buttons. But as you can see above, removing the pads from the hub leaves you with what seems to be the perfect old-school controller, with a d-pad Ars Technica says is "much, much better than what you get on the regular 360 controller."

But before you run out and buy the $40 drum kit just to use the snazzy d-pad with Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo HD Remix, be warned that there's a catch -- the hub only has four face buttons and no shoulder buttons, so it won't work with any game that requires more than four buttons. So it's perfect for Pac-Man: Championship Edition, as Ars Technica reports, but not so useful for Street Fighter. Alas, it seems like the quest for the perfect fighting game controller on the 360 continues.










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