BS, I have a Ryu Fightpad and it's fine. Maybe the others were defective, I don't know, I had no problems with mine whatsoever since I bought it when it came out. Btw, I have a PS3 Ryu and a 360 Ryu as well. Both are fine so far. But I did get one small problem with my PS3 Ryu fightpad. Took it...