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MrWilso92
When i hear people say they use the pad i know its a DS3 but when they say there using the pad are they refering to using the buttons d-pad ect.. thats what i think when i here pad , you ask me i use a DS3 i drive using both joy stick's so is pad diffrent
 
Yes, you are correct. "Pad" is short for "d-pad", which is also short for "directional pad". As we know, the joy sticks are not pads. :p So yeah, I'd say pad if I used the directional buttons, and I'd say DS3 if I used the joysticks. :)
 
Yes the "pad" means the directional buttons or D-pad above the left stick. I believe those buttons are also pressure-sensitive but not completely sure.
 
"Pad" can also very simply mean "gamepad" which is essentially the same as saying "DS3." There's no sure-fire official meaning.

I'm pretty sure the D-pad buttons are pressure sensitive - I think all of them except start, select, L3 and R3 are. But that doesn't mean GT5 necessarily makes use of the pressure sensitivity. It does if you use gas and brake on the face buttons, but I've not used a pad ( :p ) enough to be sure about the steering. I'm sure someone around here knows, they always do.
 
Morgoth_666
"Pad" can also very simply mean "gamepad" which is essentially the same as saying "DS3." There's no sure-fire official meaning.
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Or, if you're extremely old, "joypad".

Which I never realised how dodgy it sounded until just now.
 
Morgoth_666
I'm pretty sure the D-pad buttons are pressure sensitive - I think all of them except start, select, L3 and R3 are. But that doesn't mean GT5 necessarily makes use of the pressure sensitivity. It does if you use gas and brake on the face buttons, but I've not used a pad ( :p ) enough to be sure about the steering. I'm sure someone around here knows, they always do.
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Further clarification:
"Face buttons" are the shapes: triangle, square, X and circle.
"Shoulder buttons" are L1, L2, R1 and R2.
L3 and R3 are the "clickers" -- press the top of the sticks into the controller.

Hope this helps someone... I know a guy who almost lost his mind, I let him borrow my copy of GTA3 (way back when) and he was just getting *really into* the game and the mission required a horn honk with R3. He could not find the R3 clicker. When I got home from work and he came running over, I thought he was going to attack me or his head would explode or something. LOL. I explained that his PS2 owner manual shows him all the button locations on the controller. Yes I was a smartass and he did not like that. :D
 
Famine
Or, if you're extremely old, "joypad".

Which I never realised how dodgy it sounded until just now.
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Off topic, but where the hell is that bird from in your avitar, lol. Isn't it a cartoon character or something? Thanks and sorry for the odd question.
 
DGXR
Further clarification:
"Face buttons" are the shapes: triangle, square, X and circle.
"Shoulder buttons" are L1, L2, R1 and R2.
L3 and R3 are the "clickers" -- press the top of the sticks into the controller.

Hope this helps someone... I know a guy who almost lost his mind, I let him borrow my copy of GTA3 (way back when) and he was just getting *really into* the game and the mission required a horn honk with R3. He could not find the R3 clicker. When I got home from work and he came running over, I thought he was going to attack me or his head would explode or something. LOL. I explained that his PS2 owner manual shows him all the button locations on the controller. Yes I was a smartass and he did not like that. :D
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Nice. I've known some people who had the controllers for years or at least months without knowing they had the "click-stick" buttons. Saying things like "why does my horn honk randomly when I turn" and things like that.
 
I've always referred to my DS3 as a pad, I never thought pad could refer to the d-pad, but then I always called them arrows. I think I might start calling it DS3 now.

KB18FAN
Off topic, but where the hell is that bird from in your avitar, lol. Isn't it a cartoon character or something? Thanks and sorry for the odd question.
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I think it's Perry the platypus from Phineas and Ferb, how I know this is beyond me.
 
Im_Lukas
I think it's Perry the platypus from Phineas and Ferb, how I know this is beyond me.
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It is Perry the Platypus from Phineas and Ferb....three young kids is how I know that. Great show, you should watch it sometime. And I still use the D-Pad for steering and X and [] for gas and brake. Call me old fashioned.
 
Yes. Yes it is. I've modified him to represent the Platypus-designed F1 cars of the 2012 season.

To save pad/pad confusion, I say DS3 to refer to the device and button-basher to refer to someone who presses the D-pad buttons. I'm a button-basher :D
 
DGXR
... I know a guy who almost lost his mind, I let him borrow my copy of GTA3 (way back when) and he was just getting *really into* the game and the mission required a horn honk with R3. He could not find the R3 clicker.
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I did that one!:dunce: Did work it out eventually though. In my defence, I was on a friends PS2 and hadn't used one before!
 
I simply say controller since it can both be SixAxis/DS3 or an unofficial controller.
So for me it's in two categories:
Wheel or controller, what you do or how you're using it doesn't matter.
 
I've always used x, square and l3 as the main buttons, I'm trying to master l2 & r2 at the moment. Can get much better control through corners with them.
 
Yep, pressure sensitive, you can modulate steerin' n power by being sensitive, just like the wife says I am. No room forra wheel, everything is by the buttons, as it were. So if I beat you online, it was by a driver on direction buttons.
 
Famine
Or, if you're extremely old, "joypad".

Which I never realised how dodgy it sounded until just now.
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Lol! I still call it a joypad Famine, us Yorkshire folk. D-pad, direction buttons, arrow, whatever...
 

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