Fighting game controllers come in all shapes and sizes, and over the years we’ve seen all manner of crazy contraptions being used to play our favorite titles. From the evolution of competitive peripherals leading to things like the creation of leverless controllers to people making fully functioning arcade sticks out of cardboard boxes, you’d think by now we had seen it all.
Well that’s not entirely the case as a clip from a player’s recent live stream features a look at something we certainly have never witnessed before. This footage features Street Fighter 6 being played on a Taiko no Tatsujin drum controller complete with drum stick, and it is surely a sight to behold.
Twitter user mizen5mizen recently uploaded a clip to the social media platform that was pulled from one of the Street Fighter 6 player’s recent live streams. In it, we see an online match underway with a webcam feed that shows the peripheral in action.
For those unfamiliar, Taiko no Tatsujin is a rhythm game series created by Namco that effectively acts similarly to Guitar Hero (though the former predates the latter), but the instrument you play is a taiko drum. This Japanese arcade game (that has also seen releases on home consoles) equips players with a big drum and a drum stick to strike along with the notes and rhythm of whatever song you’re playing.
Speaking of Guitar Hero, we have seen players attempt to play fighting games using the plastic guitar shaped controller in the past. And now we can add the taiko drum to the long list of crazy fighting game peripherals.
In the clip, mizen5mizen is playing Modern E. Honda, with the idea being that the simplified inputs that Modern Controls offer in Street Fighter 6 make it easier to navigate around and actually pull off attacks.
From the looks of it, specific areas on the drum that you can strike for notes in the Taiko no Tatsujin games have been mapped to various actions in Street Fighter 6. We see the player hit the drum in different areas and get things like Drive Impact, throw, and even assisted combos.
Mizen5mizen also moves Honda around the screen using the D-Pad that can be found on the controller itself. And what’s even more wild is that the drummer here can not only be seen playing fairly solidly, but actually winning their match.
太鼓の達人コントローラーで無事1勝！
ボダン配置
左ドン→大攻撃
右ドン→インパクト
左カッ→中攻撃
右カッ→弱+中
左手ボダン→アシスト+十字キー移動#太鼓の達人 #スト6 pic.twitter.com/vhGeUw6M7U— みぜん@note (@mizen5mizen) November 8, 2024