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# Now all you need is a 26-button controller to play StarCraft II.
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/now-all-you-need-26-button-controller-play-starcraft-ii/
- Published: 2012-07-09T16:00:34.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T14:59:08.000Z
- Description: The best real-time-strategy players are like orchestra conducters—they lead multivalent campaigns for what can be hours without pause. But what happens when you change their best-loved instrument for conducting with a supposedly user-friendly arrangement? Reactions amount to a resounding “meh.” Enga
- Author: Kent Szlauderbach
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The best real-time-strategy players are like orchestra conducters—they lead multivalent campaigns for what can be hours without pause. But what happens when you change their best-loved instrument for conducting with a supposedly user-friendly arrangement? Reactions amount to a resounding “meh.” [Engadget](http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/06/srk-contest-produces-a-26-button-starcraft-ii-arcade-controller/?ref=killscreen.com) reports:

> Almost as a dare, *Shoryuken* (*SRK*) challenged its fans to produce a fighting game-style controller for*Starcraft II*. Mauricio Romano took them up on that contest and won with a surprisingly polished [arcade stick](http://www.engadget.com/tag/arcadestick/?ref=killscreen.com) of his own. Its cornerstone is a heavily modified Ultrastik joystick that’s turned into an on-controller, two-button mouse.